Pare Lorentz Award Winning Documentary Joins Festival Line-Up!

Oil On Ice At Center for Contemporary Arts, April 19th, 8:00 p.m.

For immediate release: April 14, 2008
Contact: Stephine Poston (505) 379-6172

Santa Fe, NM - The internationally-renowned documentary Oil On Ice will have its Santa Fe premiere during the upcoming Global Green Indigenous Film Festival. A Dale Djerassi/ Bo Boudart Production in association with Lobitos Creek Ranch, Oil On Ice has garnered 18 awards, most notably the International Documentary Association's highly prestigious Pare Lorentz. It is a visually stunning documentary examining the battle over oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the repercussions for the Native peoples, flora and fauna that call the Refuge home. "Oil On Ice is the definitive documentary about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge," musician Neil Young has said. "It gives us hope, and a reason to believe that we can make a difference."

Oil On Ice is not only an award-winning film but a groundbreaking sustainable project. The Oil On Ice Project has instituted a Grassroots Action Toolkit, a website providing news updates and activism tools, partnerships with 14 nonprofit organizations, and educational distribution of the film with a curriculum guide. Now in its third year, the Project has taken the documentary on museum road shows and film festival tours, facilitated over 2,500 activist house party screenings, distributed the film in 18 countries and ensured it was broadcast on 60% of PBS stations in the United States.

Oil On Ice will be shown at Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts on April 19th at 8:00 p.m. The screening is part of the Global Green Indigenous Film Festival which takes place April 18 through 20 and is being hosted by the National Tribal Environmental Council and co-sponsored by New Mexico Tourism Department and Jicarilla Apache Nation.

Global Green Indigenous Film Festival: www.ggiff.com
Oil On Ice: www.oilonice.org
Oil On Ice images: http://www.oilonice.org/newsroom/presscenter.php

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