Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was employed as a security guard at the time of his deadly terrorist attack, and in 2012 he was featured in a documentary about the Bp oil spill while on the job. During a secretly recorded interview, he told a filmmaker that people were trying to make money off of the environmental disaster. An employee of the security company G4S, Mateen was stationed at a beach in Pensacola, Florida at the time of the Bp oil spill in 2010. An on-duty Mateen appears in the documentary “The Big Fix” during a scene in which filmmaker Rebecca.
- 6/15/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Digital distribution company GoDigital has received what it says is a high six-figure investment from digital-media venture fund Preferred Ventures, GoDigital CEO Logan Mulvey announced Thursday. The new capital will go towards hiring and expanding the company’s digital marketing and audience-strategy department. FreeCreditReport.com founder and former Experian Interactive CEO Ed Ojdana and former Facebook chief privacy officer and founder of Kelly Investments Chris Kelly launched Preferred Ventures in 2011. As part of the new deal, Ojdana becomes chairman of the GoDigital board, and Mulvey and Kelly join the board of directors. GoDigital’s recent releases and acquisitions include Marc H. Simon’s “Unraveled,” Andrew Neel’s SXSW premiere “King Kelly,” Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell's Cannes 2011 documentary "The Big Fix" and the infamous "Zyzzyx Road". Preferred Content managing partner Kevin...
- 8/3/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
DVD Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: DVD $ $24.95
Studio: Green Planet Productions
The 2011 documentary film The Big Fix recounts the events surrounding the 2010 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and paints a disturbing picture of the aftermath of the largest oil spill in America’s history.
Directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Fuel), the film contains interviews with scientists, government officials, journalists, attorneys and Gulf States natives. It sets out to reveal the powerful political and corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability of people and the environment in the aftermath of the spill. The film posits that no matter what the petroleum and government officials say, the oil is still coming ashore, the seafood industry is wiped out, and many people of the locals are sick.
Most disturbingly, Rebecca Harrell Tickell became ill after being exposed...
Price: DVD $ $24.95
Studio: Green Planet Productions
The 2011 documentary film The Big Fix recounts the events surrounding the 2010 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and paints a disturbing picture of the aftermath of the largest oil spill in America’s history.
Directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Fuel), the film contains interviews with scientists, government officials, journalists, attorneys and Gulf States natives. It sets out to reveal the powerful political and corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability of people and the environment in the aftermath of the spill. The film posits that no matter what the petroleum and government officials say, the oil is still coming ashore, the seafood industry is wiped out, and many people of the locals are sick.
Most disturbingly, Rebecca Harrell Tickell became ill after being exposed...
- 5/3/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell's Cannes 2011 documentary "The Big Fix," which investigates the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and its economic and environmental after-effects, will receive a June 19 release on DVD and VOD. GoDigital is handling digital rights while Lionsgate will handle the release on cable VOD and the social gifting platform PlayItFWD.com The Green Planet Productions release features Peter Fonda, who is an executive producer along with Tim Robbins and Maggie Wachsberger. Associate producer Jason Mraz contributed the original song “Collapsible Plans” to the film's soundtrack. UTA and Preferred Content repped the filmmakers.
- 5/1/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
The Big Fix, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has been acquired by video-on-demand distribution company GoDigital. The film will be released June 19 on digital and cable VOD services. Santa Monica-based GoDigital is handling the digital VOD release of the film, while Lionsgate, which releases some of GoDigital's films via an ouput arrangement, will handle the cable VOD release. The Big Fix will also be released on DVD the same day. The film from husband-and-wife directing and producing team Josh and Rebecca Tickell examines the massive April 2010 oil spill in
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- 5/1/2012
- by Daniel Miller
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light won Best Feature at the International Documentary Association's Awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night. The La Times' Susan King: "Set in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, the documentary juxtaposes scenes of astronomers in observatories scanning the galaxies, while nearby, archaeologists and elderly women dig through the sand searching for the human remains of pre-Columbian mummies, 19th century miners who labored in slave conditions and the bodies of victims of Gen Augusto Pinochet's regime who were taken to the Atacama as political prisoners and dumped there." Michael Guillén interviewed Guzmán in October 2010.
TheWrap's Steve Pond notes that neither Nostalgia nor any of the other docs nominated for the Ida's top award — Better This World, How to Die in Oregon, The Redemption of General Butt Naked and The Tiniest Place — have made the Academy's shortlist of 15 films left in the race for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar.
TheWrap's Steve Pond notes that neither Nostalgia nor any of the other docs nominated for the Ida's top award — Better This World, How to Die in Oregon, The Redemption of General Butt Naked and The Tiniest Place — have made the Academy's shortlist of 15 films left in the race for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar.
- 12/3/2011
- MUBI
The Big Fix raises concerns over Obama administration's use of toxic chemical Corexit and Bp's leverage in the crisis
It's not every film that sets off on a mini-road trip with Peter Fonda, only to veer off into a night-vision goggle surveillance of a Bp facility.
But then, the events of last year's Bp oil disaster have so far been largely revisited in books, not documentaries. Until now, when a new documentary about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has its premiere at the New Orleans film festival.
The Bix Fix, by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, re-opens some of the most persistent questions about last year's oil spill. How Bp was able to exert so much control over the crisis as it unfolded? What were the long-term health consequences of using a toxic chemical, Corexit, to break up the oil and drive it underwater?
Rebecca Tickell herself had a serious...
It's not every film that sets off on a mini-road trip with Peter Fonda, only to veer off into a night-vision goggle surveillance of a Bp facility.
But then, the events of last year's Bp oil disaster have so far been largely revisited in books, not documentaries. Until now, when a new documentary about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has its premiere at the New Orleans film festival.
The Bix Fix, by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, re-opens some of the most persistent questions about last year's oil spill. How Bp was able to exert so much control over the crisis as it unfolded? What were the long-term health consequences of using a toxic chemical, Corexit, to break up the oil and drive it underwater?
Rebecca Tickell herself had a serious...
- 10/14/2011
- by Suzanne Goldenberg
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Fonda, who'll forever be remembered for his role as Captain America in 1969's Easy Rider (which he also produced), got married on Father's Day. His new bride is Margaret "Parky" DeVogelaere, and the couple tied the knot in Hawaii, according to Fonda's rep. This is his third marriage. His first, in 1961 to Susan Brewer, produced two children, actress Bridget Fonda and Justin Fonda, and ended in divorce in 1972. A second marriage, in 1975 to Portia Crockett, ended in divorce earlier this year. As a member of a Hollywood dynasty, Fonda, 71, is the son of screen legend Henry Fonda (1905-1982) and...
- 6/20/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
HollywoodNews.com: Actor/Director Peter Fonda (“Easy Rider”, “3:10 to Yuma”, “Ghost Rider”) was wed to Margaret (Parky) DeVogelaere yesterday, June 19, 2011, on Father’s Day in Hawaii.
This is Peter Fonda’s third marriage.
Peter Fonda was most recently seen as William Hunt in “CSI: NY” and as himself in the Bp Deepwater Horizon oil spill documentary “The Big Fix”, which premiered at this year’s Festival de Cannes.
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This is Peter Fonda’s third marriage.
Peter Fonda was most recently seen as William Hunt in “CSI: NY” and as himself in the Bp Deepwater Horizon oil spill documentary “The Big Fix”, which premiered at this year’s Festival de Cannes.
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- 6/20/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
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"Throughout her nearly half-century career, actress Charlotte Rampling has rarely shied away from exposing herself onscreen," writes Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "In the new bio documentary The Look, she bares it all yet again, but this time in a series of compelling discussions with different artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers." Karina Longworth for the Voice: "Director Angelina Maccarone intersperses well-chosen clips from Rampling's greatest acting hits, which hammer home the larger themes, and also offer a much-needed reminder that Max, Mon Amour exists. It's breezy and entertaining, but only occasionally more than superficially insightful. Ideal catch-it-on-cable-on-a-hungover-Saturday viewing."
More from Mark Adams (Screen) and Boyd van Hoeij (Variety). Catherine Shoard interviews Rampling for the Guardian. Clips: 1 and 2. Until The Look hits cable, we have the Charlotte Rampling gallery at everyday_i_show.
"Throughout her nearly half-century career, actress Charlotte Rampling has rarely shied away from exposing herself onscreen," writes Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "In the new bio documentary The Look, she bares it all yet again, but this time in a series of compelling discussions with different artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers." Karina Longworth for the Voice: "Director Angelina Maccarone intersperses well-chosen clips from Rampling's greatest acting hits, which hammer home the larger themes, and also offer a much-needed reminder that Max, Mon Amour exists. It's breezy and entertaining, but only occasionally more than superficially insightful. Ideal catch-it-on-cable-on-a-hungover-Saturday viewing."
More from Mark Adams (Screen) and Boyd van Hoeij (Variety). Catherine Shoard interviews Rampling for the Guardian. Clips: 1 and 2. Until The Look hits cable, we have the Charlotte Rampling gallery at everyday_i_show.
- 6/2/2011
- MUBI
Is it too early to coin the phrase "pulling a von Trier?" Because Peter Fonda added even more outspokenness to the controversy-laden Cannes Film Festival this week, calling President Barack Obama out during at Tuesday press conference for his Bp Deepwater Horizon oil spill documentary The Big Fix. Not riding so easy anymore, eh Pete? Read Fonda's expletive-laden accusations after the jump.
- 5/19/2011
- Movieline
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Count out 'Easy Rider' star Peter Fonda from any Barack Obama reelection fundraisers.
During a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, the actor revealed he sent President Obama a letter calling him a traitor over how he handled the Bp Gulf oil spill. (What is it with Cannes press conferences this week?)
He also took a swing at Bp, calling them "a bunch of Brits. I thought we kicked them out a long time ago. They tried to get back in in 1812, but they didn't make it."
Fonda was at the fest for Tuesday's premiere of the documentary, 'The Big Fix' by American directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell, which he also appeared in and executive produced. The film focuses on families impacted by the oil spill.
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Count out 'Easy Rider' star Peter Fonda from any Barack Obama reelection fundraisers.
During a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, the actor revealed he sent President Obama a letter calling him a traitor over how he handled the Bp Gulf oil spill. (What is it with Cannes press conferences this week?)
He also took a swing at Bp, calling them "a bunch of Brits. I thought we kicked them out a long time ago. They tried to get back in in 1812, but they didn't make it."
Fonda was at the fest for Tuesday's premiere of the documentary, 'The Big Fix' by American directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell, which he also appeared in and executive produced. The film focuses on families impacted by the oil spill.
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- 5/19/2011
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Documentary directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell made plenty of news with their Sundance doc Fuel, about America’s dependency on foreign oil and the financial prospects of bio-diesel fuel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Josh and Rebecca Tickell haven’t experienced anything like the growing controversy over their new documentary The Big Fix, about the corruption surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its massive clean up. “We are taking on the oil companies, the U.S. government, the military and the banks,” Josh Tickell said at Cannes. “And we are exposing something that the U.S. media didn’t cover. So there is danger.”...
- 5/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Documentary directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell made plenty of news with their Sundance doc Fuel, about America’s dependency on foreign oil and the financial prospects of bio-diesel fuel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Josh and Rebecca Tickell haven’t experienced anything like the growing controversy over their new documentary The Big Fix, about the corruption surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its massive clean up. “We are taking on the oil companies, the U.S. government, the military and the banks,” Josh Tickell said at Cannes. “And we are exposing something that the U.S. media didn’t cover. So there is danger.”...
- 5/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Documentary directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell made plenty of news with their Sundance doc Fuel, about America’s dependency on foreign oil and the financial prospects of bio-diesel fuel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Josh and Rebecca Tickell haven’t experienced anything like the growing controversy over their new documentary The Big Fix, about the corruption surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its massive clean up. “We are taking on the oil companies, the U.S. government, the military and the banks,” Josh Tickell said at Cannes. “And we are exposing something that the U.S. media didn’t cover. So there is danger.”...
- 5/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A couple of years ago, the Toronto International Film Festival launched a new sidebar called City-to-City, devoted to focusing attention on a specific nation's cinema. They drew much criticism and protest over their inaugural selection of Tel Aviv, sparked by Toronto filmmaker John Greyson's withdrawal of his film from the short film competition. Tiff defended its decision, claiming it was an innocent selection based purely on cinema, rejecting that their were ill-advised political undertones with the choice. Cannes is starting up its own like-minded section this year, albeit smaller, simply calling their selected country a "Guest Country". They've picked Egypt to jumpstart this to-be annual feature. The selection of Egypt is politically motivated, for sure, but for obvious reasons it's unlikely to draw the same level of ire as Tiff's Tel Aviv pick. The January 25 uprising that led to a national revolution arose from a strenuous world-wide battle that...
- 4/29/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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