We recently collaborated with a group of celebrated filmmakers on Dear Governor Hickenlooper, a crowdsourced film about why fracking must be stopped in the state of Colorado and how we can implement renewable energy sources instead.
The film is a collection of documentary shorts produced by a variety of filmmakers, woven together into a feature length documentary, and was launched this Memorial Day weekend at MountainFilm in Telluride. Each film — documentary, horror movie or love story — conveys to the Governor a simple message: THIS IS MY COLORADO. Our piece features Stanford PhD, Marc Jacobson, who has created a plan for each of the 50 states to move to renewable energy in the next 20 years. He and many others concur that the reason it hasn’t happened yet is political will.
While the focus is clearly Colorado, any impact generated will ripple well beyond the Rocky Mountains. The direction Colorado takes on fracking and renewable energy will influence what happens in every other American state, including California, NY, Pennsylvania, the Dakotas and around the world.
The compilation of short films includes work from the team that made Chasing Ice; Pete McBride, who made Chasing Water and The Water Tower; and many other talented filmmakers. It was funded by Patagonia and Osprey as well as by numerous friends.
Special thanks to the film’s co-producers: our good friend and colleague Allison Wolff and David Holbrooke, the head of MountainFilm; and to the film’s director, Stash Wislocki, for the opportunity to be part of this project to inspire the implementation of renewable alternatives to fracking for generations to come.
