The World Premiere of The Edge of Nature by Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker Josh Fox is the Opening Night Film at the Byron Bay Film Festival next month.
Fox’s film Gasland had a profound effect on the Byron/Northern Rivers Community. The film spread awareness of fracking and helped build the resistance both locally and world-wide.
“As a filmmaker Josh Fox is a change-maker; he is able to convey the importance of each individual in being part of the change, and take that message to the world,” says Festival Director J’aimee Skippon-Volke. “With Australia already in drought and the threat of bushfires at extreme levels, this film is the rallying-cry we need right now.”
Fox will be flying in from New York to present his film, which is a unique and compelling hybrid – at once a record of a deeply personal journey through long Covid, a nature documentary, an examination of intergenerational trauma, and a call to action to put protection of the planet first.
ABOUT JOSH FOX
Best known as the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II, Fox is internationally recognised as a spokesperson and leader on the issue of fracking and climate change. He has premiered three films on HBO, two on Netflix, and his work has been broadcast worldwide to hundreds of millions of viewers. In addition to his Oscar Nomination and Emmy for best Directing, Josh has four other Emmy nominations, won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, a Writer’s Guild nomination, an IDA Nomination and a host of other prizes. He has appeared regularly on MSNBC, FOX, CNN, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, PBS, TYT and many other outlets as a commentator.
