NEW ORLEANS, LS. (Top40 Charts/ Ray Costa Costa Communications) PRESS CONFERENCE AT 2 P.M. CDT BEFORE SHOWING
Friday, Oct. 14, 2 p.m. CDT
LOCATION:
Contemporary Arts Center, 2nd floor Rehearsal Hall
900 Camp Street, New Orleans
PARTICIPANTS:
Josh Tickell, Director
Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Co-Director/Producer
Hugh Kaufman, EPA
Attorney Stuart Smith
Local environmentalists, researchers and seafood industry representatives
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
SHOWING:
FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 8:45 P.M. CDT
Location:
Prytania Theater, New Orleans
5339 Prytania St.
The Sundance Award Winning Filmmakers behind the movie FUEL will screen "the greatest uncover-up movie" of the decade when The Big Fix receives its North American premiere as the Opening night Film of the 22nd Annual New Orleans Film Festival. Directed by Louisiana native Josh Tickell and produced and co-directed by his wife and filmmaking partner Rebecca Harrell Tickell, The Big Fix is part daring journalism, archival investigation and eco-horror story. See https://neworleansfilmsociety.org/festival.
Through interviews with scientists, government officials, journalists (including Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell who examined the Gulf spill in his article 'The Poisoning'), activists (Peter Fonda, Amy Smart and Grammy-winner Jason Mraz who also contributed an original song), New Orleans attorney Stuart Smith and Gulf States natives, The Big Fix recounts the events surrounding the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Big Fix reveals the powerful political and corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability of people and the environment.
The Big Fix explores the complicit behavior of the US government in the long-term use of the chemical dispersant, Corexit 9527, a known hemolitic (blood thinner). In an unexpected twist of fate, Co-Director/Producer Rebecca Harrell Tickell became severely ill after being exposed to the oil and Corexit mixture while filming. Like many of the residents of the gulf south who have experienced blood in their urine, skin lesions, and other blood-related disorders, Harrell Tickell's condition persists.
A rough cut of The Big Fix received critical acclaim this year as the only documentary in Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. European audiences were stunned to see evidence suggesting the Macondo well site is still leaking oil. Now LSU and other researchers confirm it.
