A first-time documentary filmmaker is outraged by the natural gas industry’s “despicable” attempts to kill his movie’s chances of winning an Academy Award.
Energy In Depth, a group sponsored by a coalition of natural gas companies, sent a letter to the Academy asking that “Gasland” – a film about a controversial mining technique called hydro-fracking – be removed from the Documentary Feature category.
“I’m continually amazed by all the developments,” filmmaker Josh Fox said during a screening of the film at NYU in early February, “both in terms of great things that have happened and real acts of courage that I have seen, and also these incredible, despicable attacks from the industry. I find them utterly irresponsible and horrific.”
