New Global Energy documentary needs your support

[Intentionalfilmguy]

I am a Calgary based filmmaker. One of my previous productions was the acclaimed oil sands documentary "Pay Dirt"(CBC 2006) My new project is a multi-format documentary looking at the full costs of all energy systems - called "unintended Consequences". You can find detailed information and help support this project getting made by pre-buying the programs here: http://www.indiegogo.com/Unintended-Consequences

Sponsorship opportunities also available. Contact me for more details.


UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is a global multi-platform documentary project about the externalities of the energy systems we need to transition from a high carbon to low carbon society by examining critical and often overlooked elements in the energy debate in an exciting, informative, and balanced narrative. By investigating the full ecological, economic, social and political costs of various energy sources, in other words, by looking at “energy systems” from cradle to grave”, including oil sands, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, bio-fuels, and geo-thermal, we can better understand how focusing on labels like “dirty oil”, “clean energy”, “sustainable” and “renewable” can be misleading, and keep us from real solutions. There are no free rides to the future because exploitation of any energy source for human consumption creates impacts, and has costs such as the infrastructure needed to produce, distribute and consume the energy. It is critical that we understand that everything in our lives like modern medicine, science, and technology, are inextricably linked to oil and petrochemicals. No matter what energy source we choose there will be positive and negative unintended consequences.

There is great need to increase society’s energy literacy in order to move past the current climate of polarization, conflict and highly charged emotions to a new era of rational optimism where energy systems are planned and delivered through integrating fossil fuels and alternative fuels in an efficient manner that respects our social, political, economic, and environmental realities. This project will directly address and help to increase overall energy literacy. The documentaries will address the issue of literacy through narratives that provides context and perspective in an entertaining and understandable way.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is a multi-format documentary project that will include the production of a feature length film, a six-part six-hour television series, a public website with unique real-time web documentaries and open source interactive content, an educational website for schools from elementary to university level, and a corporate e-learning website for energy industry, governments, and institutions.

[pylon]

no?

[troutman]

Join Date: Oct 2011 . . .

[Hockeyguy15]

Is there some sort of contest you would like us to vote in?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Intentionalfilmguy

I am a Calgary based filmmaker. One of my previous productions was the acclaimed oil sands documentary "Pay Dirt"(CBC 2006) My new project is a multi-format documentary looking at the full costs of all energy systems - called "unintended Consequences". You can find detailed information and help support this project getting made by pre-buying the programs here: http://indiegogo.com/Unintended Consequences

Sponsorship opportunities also available. Contact me for more details.

The page has been removed. Do you have another link?

[malcolmk14]

Here's a link that works.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Unintended-Consequences

[Intentionalfilmguy]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The page has been removed. Do you have another link?

Sorry, the link is fixed. Here is is; http://www.indiegogo.com/Unintended-Consequences

[CaptainCrunch]

Awesome documentary, I can do the deep voiced promo for it.

"The inspiring story of a webpage not found"

Flashes to a video of an angry man screaming "NOT WITHOUT MY WEB PAGE!"

"The rags to riches story of the actor who played the arrow pointing to the career section"

A sober man leans over a table and eyes the other men "Get me the president"

"Get ready to laugh"

Lindsay Lohan is sitting in the corner laughing while pulling out her hair

"get ready to cry"

Shows a person crying after going to the indiegogo page and seeing the broken link message

"Get ready to gogo"



"Coming to no theatre's near you, no time soon"

[DuffMan]

can Wannamaker be in it?

[THE SCUD]

You came to a Calgary-based forum full of oil and gas employees to make a movie about how bad oil and gas is?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by THE SCUD

You came to a Calgary-based forum full of oil and gas employees to make a movie about how bad oil and gas is?

The original documentary was about coal as well, so I think it was more about non-renewable energy sources if I am reading the synopsis correct on the webpage. Not just oil and gas specifically, although that is a large part.

[THE SCUD]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The original documentary was about coal as well, so I think it was more about non-renewable energy sources if I am reading the synopsis correct on the webpage. Not just oil and gas specifically, although that is a large part.

Either way, not many people here are going to pay (pre-buy!) to have their livelihood shat on.

[Intentionalfilmguy]

Originally Posted by THE SCUD

You came to a Calgary-based forum full of oil and gas employees to make a movie about how bad oil and gas is?

Take a closer look. It's not about that at all. In fact this story is of critical importance to the energy industry and getting a more balanced, rational, pragmatic and optimistic story out about the future of energy. It's about looking at all options from an energy systems perspective and understanding that all fuel sources whether it's oil, shale gas, coal, nuclear wind, solar, bio-fuels have positive and negative unintended consequences. Yet, right now the debate is focused on fossil fuels are only bad, and alternatives are all good, free and benign. This is not a realistic picture, and the best way to address this is through better energy literacy. Keystone XL shows what happens when debates are controlled by energy illiteracy and inaccuracy. We need to make vast improvements to how we producer, distribute and consume energy, but tossing out one system in favour of another system without more forethought and vision will potentially get us into bigger problems.

Take a deeper look and at who some of our partners are already.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by THE SCUD

Either way, not many people here are going to pay (pre-buy!) to have their livelihood shat on.

If you donate $100,000, you get to "negotiate an award" with the filmmaker.

I hope he has a couple extra Hawaiian islands up his sleeve.

[THE SCUD]

Originally Posted by Intentionalfilmguy

Take a closer look. It's not about that at all. In fact this story is of critical importance to the energy industry and getting a more balanced, rational, pragmatic and optimistic story out about the future of energy. It's about looking at all options from an energy systems perspective and understanding that all fuel sources whether it's oil, shale gas, coal, nuclear wind, solar, bio-fuels have positive and negative unintended consequences. Yet, right now the debate is focused on fossil fuels are only bad, and alternatives are all good, free and benign. This is not a realistic picture, and the best way to address this is through better energy literacy. Keystone XL shows what happens when debates are controlled by energy illiteracy and inaccuracy. We need to make vast improvements to how we producer, distribute and consume energy, but tossing out one system in favour of another system without more forethought and vision will potentially get us into bigger problems.

Take a deeper look and at who some of our partners are already.

Fair enough - I jumped the gun. Thank you for the reply.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by THE SCUD

You came to a Calgary-based forum full of oil and gas employees to make a movie about how bad oil and gas is?

I don't know if that's necessarily an accurate take on what the documentary is about. Read the information below the video in the link provided. It looks like it endeavours to talk about the costs (monetary and environmental) of alternative energy solutions that are being proposed as well as oil sands, etc.

And for god's sake, it's NUC-LEAR. Not NUC-U-LAR.

[Intentionalfilmguy]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

If you donate $100,000, you get to "negotiate an award" with the filmmaker.

I hope he has a couple extra Hawaiian islands up his sleeve.

There's only one way to find out!

[simonsays]

Originally Posted by Intentionalfilmguy

Take a closer look. It's not about that at all. In fact this story is of critical importance to the energy industry and getting a more balanced, rational, pragmatic and optimistic story out about the future of energy. It's about looking at all options from an energy systems perspective and understanding that all fuel sources whether it's oil, shale gas, coal, nuclear wind, solar, bio-fuels have positive and negative unintended consequences. Yet, right now the debate is focused on fossil fuels are only bad, and alternatives are all good, free and benign. This is not a realistic picture, and the best way to address this is through better energy literacy. Keystone XL shows what happens when debates are controlled by energy illiteracy and inaccuracy. We need to make vast improvements to how we producer, distribute and consume energy, but tossing out one system in favour of another system without more forethought and vision will potentially get us into bigger problems.

Take a deeper look and at who some of our partners are already.

You might want to update your OP with this post (or something similar). Also we generally don't like people signing up and asking for help in their first post. Good luck with your project however, the energy sector needs to be represented with more substance and less rhetoric.

[photon]

So honest questions, since you're actually participating in the thread rather than posting and leaving..

Why did you post this here? Did you just find this on a google search and register only to post this?

Typically someone coming into a forum and posting simply to promote themselves is considered spamming.

[Intentionalfilmguy]

Originally Posted by photon

So honest questions, since you're actually participating in the thread rather than posting and leaving..

Why did you post this here? Did you just find this on a google search and register only to post this?

Typically someone coming into a forum and posting simply to promote themselves is considered spamming.

You know what, this was suggested to me by a social media expert as a great forum that has some intelligent conversations going on beyond just hockey. I think that what I'm working on has tremendous relevance to a lot of people in this town and province. I'm trying some different ways of getting the message out and engaging people in the project, but also engaging people in a new conversation about energy. This project is going to be as much about presenting information from different points of view, as it about providing a forum for discussions to take place.

I totally appreciate the spamming comment. That is not my intent, but if that is the consensus I am more than happy to remove my post.