Documentary Film Screening + Q&A with Director Brian Hedden & Local Activists
Fracking the System:
Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars
Thursday, April 25th
6:30-9:00pm
CUCC Sanctuary | 2650 Table Mesa Blvd., Boulder, CO
Join us for a screening of the newly-released, award-winning documentary, Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars — a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado, presented by Community United Church of Christ in partnership with First Congregational United Church of Christ, Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration, and GreenFaith Boulder County.
Doors open at 6:30 for networking and nosh. Film starts at 7:00. The 90-minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Brian Hedden and local activists.
All proceeds will go to support the film, the filmmaker and the climate activists on the panel.
Winner of the 2024 “Spirit of Activism” Award
Colorado Environmental Film Festival
and
“Environmental Award”
2024 DOCUTAH International Film Festival
When Trisha Nelson learns about the fracking site going in behind her son’s school, she is in disbelief. She is even more shocked to learn it was moved to her BIPOC community from a predominantly white neighborhood after those parents protested. She joins the fight to stop the well and gets connected to the state-wide movement to push new wells further away from all communities. The conflict erupts in 2018 with a state-wide activists ballot initiative prompted a $50 million response from the oil and gas industry, complete with dirty tricks and sabotage.
She embarks on a journey that exposes the harms of fracking, the lengths to which a government is complicit with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.
Learn more about the film at frackingthesystem.com
Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado, exposing the harms of fracking, the lengths to which the government is complicit with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.
WATCH THE TRAILER
Documentary Film Screening + Q&A
with Director Brian Hedden & Local Activists
Fracking the System:
Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars
Thursday, April 25th
6:30-9:00pm
CUCC Sanctuary | 2650 Table Mesa Blvd., Boulder, CO
Join us for a screening of the newly-released, award-winning documentary, Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars — a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado, presented by Community United Church of Christ in partnership with First Congregational United Church of Christ, Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration, and GreenFaith Boulder County.
Doors open at 6:30 for networking and nosh. Film starts at 7:00.
The 90-minute screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Brian Hedden and local climate activists.
When Trisha Nelson learns about the fracking site going in behind her son’s school, she is in disbelief. She is even more shocked to learn it was moved to her BIPOC community from a predominantly white neighborhood after those parents protested. She joins the fight to stop the well and gets connected to the state-wide movement to push new wells further away from all communities. The conflict erupts in 2018 with a state-wide activists ballot initiative prompted a $50 million response from the oil and gas industry, complete with dirty tricks and sabotage.
She embarks on a journey that exposes the harms of fracking, the lengths to which a government is complicit with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.
Learn more about the film at frackingthesystem.com
Winner of the 2024 “Spirit of Activism” Award
Colorado Environmental Film Festival
and
“Environmental Award”
2024 DOCUTAH International Film Festival
WATCH THE TRAILER
Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado, exposing the harms of fracking, the lengths to which the government is complicit with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.
