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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH- Al Gore's Movie About Global
Warming
Coming to Theatres this Friday the 26th.
U.S.A., 2006, 94 Minutes, color
Director:
Davis Guggenheim
Trailer :
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/stv-aninconvenienttruth-trailer-wmv,0,5756281.wmvfile
Extreme poverty, intractable wars, virulent disease, hatred of all
stripes–these are a few of the scourges we live with today. And yet global
climate change trumps them all; for if it's not addressed, all life on the
planet will be devastated, regardless of geography, class, race, or creed.
The Inconvenient Truth is the gripping story of former Vice President Al
Gore, who became interested in this startling issue while at college 30
years ago, and now devotes his life to reversing global warming. Traveling
the world, he has built a visually mesmerizing presentation designed to
disabuse doubters of the notion that climate change is debatable. The heart
of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia lecture itself, where
Gore indisputably correlates CO2 emissions with exponentially rising
temperatures, already responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like ice-cap
melting, drought, and rising sea levels. Interwoven with this riveting
public address are intimate moments revealing the poetic, searching side of
Gore as he struggles to define his purpose in the aftermath of the 2000
election. This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to
popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most
threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore
outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves
that inaction is no longer an option–in fact, it's immoral.— Caroline
Libresco
Executive Producers : Jeff Skoll, Davis Guggenheim
Producers : Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Burns
Coproducer : Lesley Chilcott
Editors : Jay Cassidy, Dan Swietlik
Director(s) Bios
Davis Guggenheim
The First Year, Davis Guggenheim's PBS documentary about the challenging
initial year of several public-school teachers, received a 2002 Peabody
Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the Full Frame Film Festival. An executive
producer on Training Day and director of the feature film Gossip, Guggenheim
is also producer and director of the Emmy Award--winning HBO series
Deadwood. His other credits include the documentary Teach and episodes of
The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, and ER.
Film Contact
Courtney Sexton
Participant Productions
335 N. Maple Dr., Ste. 245
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 246-7716
courtney.sexton@participantproductions.com
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