Telluride First Look: In ‘This Is Not A Drill,’ “Three Unlikely Heroes” Take On Powerful Oil & Gas Industry; Watch Clip

Telluride First Look: In ‘This Is Not A Drill,’ “Three Unlikely Heroes” Take On Powerful Oil & Gas Industry; Watch Clip

EXCLUSIVE: At the age of only 30, Justin J. Pearson is making a significant impact in Tennessee through his moral clarity and activism that ripples well beyond the Volunteer State. He and two other members of the Tennessee House of Representatives were famously expelled from that legislative body two years ago for taking part in a gun control protest on the House floor (he was subsequently reappointed). But the new documentary This Is Not a Dr…

Telluride Review: This is Not a Drill Offers a Sharp Highlight of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

About an hour into This is Not a Drill, the new documentary from director Oren Jacoby, comes a moment that is stark and unsettling. Sitting next to her daughter, Louisiana climate activist Roishetta Ozane asks what she thinks of the LNG (Liquefied natural gas) factories near their house. Her daughter responds: “If you don’t get the industry to stop, that will be the reason the world ends.” For as scary as the answer is, it’s also a hopeful one. …