Crude Impact is a 2006 film written and directed by James Jandak Wood. It is a documentary about the effect of fossil fuel

Fossil fuel

Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years...

s on issues such as global warming, the environmental crisis, society and the questionable practices of oil companies

Crude Impact was an official selection at over thirty film festivals around the world. The film had a limited theatrical release in the United States and Canada. It has been broadcast on television in several countries. Crude Impact has been translated in to French, Spanish, Czech, Turkish and Finnish.

Awards and nominations

• Best Environmental Feature Film at the 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles.
• Grand Jury Prize at the 2nd Annual Cinestrat Film Festival in Finestrat, Spain.
• Social Justice Award at the 22nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival
  Santa Barbara International Film Festival
  The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is a film festival and non-profit organization, established in 1985, that showcases independent American and international films. The SBIFF line-up includes 20 world premieres and 11 U.S. premieres, with newly expanded 11-day festival...
  
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• One of The Best of Fest films at DOCNZ New Zealand Documentary Film Festival.
• The Hands Around the World Award and the Best Cultural Issues Film award at the 4th Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival.
• The Host City Award and the Student Judges Awards at EKOFILM 2007 in the Czech Republic.
• Nominated for three awards at the Sacramento International Film Festival - Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Best Environmental Film.
• Nominated for Best World Popular Scientific Film at the 42nd International Popular Scientific and Documentary Film Festival in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Featured speakers

• Tundi Agardy
• Guy Caruso
• Cindy Cohn
  Cindy Cohn
  Cindy Cohn is an American attorney specializing in Internet law. She represented Daniel J. Bernstein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Bernstein v. United States, and in 1997 was recognized by California Lawyer Magazine as one of the Lawyers of the Year for this work. She currently serves...
  
  
• Julian Darley
  Julian Darley
  Julian Darley is a writer and speaker on policy responses to global environmental degradation. He is the author of the book High Noon for Natural Gas, and the founder of Global Public Media and Post Carbon Institute...
  
  
• Kenneth S. Deffeyes
  Kenneth S. Deffeyes
  Kenneth S. Deffeyes is a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. Deffeyes holds a B.S. in petroleum geology from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University,...
  
  
• Steve Donziger
• Emeka Duruigbo
• Michael Economides
• Christopher Flavin
  Christopher Flavin
  Christopher Flavin is the President of the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization focused on natural resource and environmental issues, based in Washington, DC...
  
  
• Amy Goodman
  Amy Goodman
  Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York...
  
  
• Thom Hartmann
  Thom Hartmann
  Thom Hartmann is an American radio host, author, former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, and progressive political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, airs in the United States and has 2.75 million listeners a week...
  
  
• Richard Heinberg
  Richard Heinberg
  Richard Heinberg is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of ten books...
  
  
• Terry Lynn Karl
• Santiago Kawarim
• Michael Klare
  Michael Klare
  Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency...
  
  
• Evon Peter
• Kavita Ramdas
  Kavita Ramdas
  -Background and Affiliations:Ramdas was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Mumbai, Delhi, London, Rangoon, and Bonn. She attended high school at the Nikolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany; the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and graduated from Springdales School, New...
  
  
• William Rees
• Matthew Simmons
  Matthew Simmons
  Matthew Roy Simmons was founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Company International, and was a prominent advocate of peak oil. Simmons was motivated by the 1973 energy crisis to create an investment banking firm catering to oil companies. In his previous capacity, he served as energy...
  
  
• Bill Twist
• Lynne Twist