My name is Caroline Lebresco. I’m one of the senior programmers of the Sundance Film Festival. I want to welcome you to this next installment in our American documentary competition which is full of incredible films, of which today’s offering is no exception. This is a program really about energy.

Your persistence in helping with this film have made a huge difference and are going to make a huge difference in this world. So, Thank you. Enjoy the movie.

I’m a conservative. I liked how it was practical solutions. It was real solutions. It was practical solutions. I am very, very supportive of that.

Been a very active disinformation campaign around green energy. Of the vegetable producers in the world, less than 7% is used currently for bio diesel; putting things like switch grass in algae.

What I got most is how much ignorance there is about things that are so simple. Michigan is suffering so much. Detroit is suffering so much.

We really reached out to Detroit. We spoke to all of the automotive manufacturers. None of them wanted to talk. We went to Sweden, all the automotive manufacturers wanted to talk.

He said he’s making the feature film, and he told me about it. He showed me pictures, talking about his journey. And I’m like, it’s genius.

Fields of Fuel was an epic film. It was a long arduous journey. It took about 3 years to make. And we both made a commitment, that we would not come back to Sundance unless with the idea that our film would show here. If your film does not get into Sundance, you are going upstream. The stakes are so difficult. 1000 films are submitted in the documentary section, 16 are selected.

We are Primarily an independent, grassroots film that was funded by the Midwest farmers. For us it was everything. To be here now and to have the film showcase. Josh and I, everything gets easy at this point. Because, what’s probably more important about this particular festival is that Robert Redford is such an environmentalist. And his whole thing behind protecting the environment, global warming , climate action, all of those thesis an themes that are important for Sundance.

Everyone asks us that question, What’s the plan? Is Fields of Fuel going to get a theatrical release? Absolutely. Whose the right marketing distribution company that can work with Fields of Fuel that really can help champion this film around the country? Can Fields of Fuel sustain and become, if not the 3rd most important environmental film that’s going to be out in the marketplace.

Josh did not want to aggravate or divide. We can all come together, and we can all agree that we all want clean air and fresh water. Bio fuel is not a controversial subject. It’s the misappropriation of information that is going out there. There’s not one renewable that going to solve the energy equation. Really what the question should be asked, what is our government going to be doing in the next 3 to 5 or 10 years, Every time you put your nozzle in your gasoline, you are sending money to the same people that are out there to kill us.

Sundance has definitely gone more green that it’s ever gone before. And we’re on our way.

I drove a biodiesel car for 2 years. I drive a hybrid now. Biodiesel been around for such a long time, you’re now hearing this for the first time.

This is a change film. This film is changing people’s lives. When we showed the screening at the 16th at Robert Redford’s reserve, inside the auditorium, you could just see people

We’re at the Red Stag Lodge. It’s day 2, and I’m fighting with a * cold. But I tell you something, I’m going to beat it, and we’re going to win. Let’s go boys.

Im about to go into Variety and do an interview with Josh Kandal to talk about Fields of Fuel and why we made the movie.

We went all across America.

It’s a discovery asking the question really, how can we become independent of foreign oils?

You know Greg is from New York. And writer Johnny is from New York. We really wanted to find a way to put in perspective what is at stake for America. So with Greg and Johnny aboard, we really started to craft the story around New York City and what happened Sept. 11. And how that’s affected the country since. And it’s a powerful and emotional, and a very great patriotic message.

When you see the film, you will be moved, touched, and inspired. You will cry, you will feel, and it just hits all your buttons. And You realize, what it is to be American. What it is to grow your own fuel in your own country, and what’s going on. How you want to get a biodiesel car. You want to look at your renewable energy portfolio. And it’s just magical. We feel this is a cutting edge film that hits those points.

Johnny O’Hara, tell us, what inspired you to want to work on Fields of Fuel?

I met Josh at a film festival and he showed his short Veggie van voyage. At the end of it, he gave a little talk, and I was one of many people going up there, saying, how can I help? I came on shortly after that as a writer, and DNA did a lot of the post-production. And that’s how it happened.

What was your most inspiration point working on the movie?

For me, the shoot we did in New York City, on 911, it was not just my city that got attacked. It was my neighborhood. I live right down there. And you know a lot of that footage is in the film. I always made the connection. Between, there is something going on that we got attacked by a bunch of dudes from Saudi Arabia where we get all our oil.

This is the worst day of my life. This is what it is like being a producer. All you do is get aggravation. And then eventually there is glory. I am waiting for the glory.

We do. We have a film to screen. We showed it last night. It looked absolutely gorgeous.

We’re doing a video log. We’re going after 35 million people on the conscious network. Josh is going to be on there…

So Christina is Josh’s assistant. Tell us, what is it like to work for the messiah?

Hahaha, it’s been fun.

Good answer!

So the reaction of the film was good?

Amazing. People cried. People were moved. People were touched. They love the film.

What are we on Pacific time, mountain time?

We are on mountain time right now.

(conversation, sorting tickets). What about you and me? He never got his tickets. He’s the director.

We are short 5 tickets. We are supposed to get 36 tickets and we have 34.

But you said you were short 5.

But thank you for getting those 2 tickets. Your welcome
(Introduction to Greg to Caroline Libresco)
She loves me. You just hugged me.

Here at Al Gore’s green inaugural ball, the people are going nuts, the emotions are high.

I believe that a black man can work hard and succeed. We, we could be content to believe, that he, he will be in charge of the free.

What’s most important is that people see change, and the change looking for is what Barack Obama has provided to the green community.

Tomorrow a new day begins. We need to change the way we use energy, the way we treat the earth, and you’ve heard me say it, many places on many occasions. We’ve got everything we need, save perhaps political will, but we prove tomorrow at high noon, that in the United States of America, political will is indeed a renewable resource.

The constitution of the United States. Preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. So help you god? So help me god. Congratulations Mr. President.

It’s packed out here. People of all faiths and all colors are all coming out for the celebration of our new president, Barack Obama. It is true, America’s spirit is alive today. You can feel it, you can see it. The spirit of independence. The spirit of what it is to be in American, to be free.