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- Wednesday, September 14 - 6:00pm
Colegio Bilingue New Horizons, Santo Domingo - Thursday, September 15 - 9:30am
Instituto Iberia, Santiago de los Caballeros - Thursday, September 15 - 7:00pm
Iván García Teatro Escuela, Puerto Plata/Sosua
This film is a direct appeal to the President of the US, and to all elected officials, to carefully consider the growing evidence proving that hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas is hardly the path to energy independence that many promote. We take a cross-country look at fracking, highlighting its variety of contaminations, the stories of its victims, the false promise of an economic boom, with a focus on energy solutions that would allow us to proceed towards an energy future that does not rely on yet another dirty fossil fuel extraction process.
Director: Jon Bowermaster
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Duration: 96 min
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
Jon Bowermaster
Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer and filmmaker. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the planet’s oceans and the lives of the people around the globe who depend on them. His most recent films look at the controversy surrounding fracking in New York State and why so many coastal residents never learn to swim, though they live just a couple feet above sea level. Antarctica 3D, On the Edge is the first 3D film to be shot in Antarctica. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF).
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