A pioneer of the grassroots anti-fracking movement in America, Oscar®-nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues to push the boundaries of the power of cinema, this time investigating the issue of climate change in his deeply personal style. After years of fighting the fracking industry, Fox is exuberant when he finally wins his hometown battle and communities push through a moratorium on natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin and the New York City watershed. But observing the woods around him, his victory dance is quashed when he notices that a towering hemlock tree he planted as a young boy is being devoured by insects that have migrated north, a consequence of the rising temperatures of human-induced climate change.
The death of Josh’s tree portends the collapse of the iconic hemlock forests of the East, and is a wake-up call to the changing atmosphere itself that would bridge Fox’s personal experience from a focus on energy extraction to the larger dilemma of global warming. Yet like many, Fox was caught in a cycle of depression and denial over the daunting issue of the climate. Traveling to 12 countries on six continents, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change is Fox’s riotously funny and action-packed odyssey in search of meaning inside all the things in the world worth fighting for – all the things climate can’t change. The film will debut on HBO in June 2016.
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