“Dear Governor Cuomo”

Filmmaker Jon Bowermaster and special guests will appear at specific screenings.

“Every one in America should see this film!” – Juliet Blake, the head of TED Television

Hudson Valley, NY (November 8, 2012) – The Hudson Valley Programmers Group will co-present special screenings of Dear Governor Cuomo… at several local venues including:
• Sullivan County Community College’s Seelig Theater in Loch Sheldrake on November 13
• The Crossroads Brewery in Athens, NY on November 14
• Onteora High School in Boiceville on November 16
• The Beacon Theatre in Beacon, NY on November 23 & 24
• The Downing Film Center in Newburgh on November 26
• The Linda in Albany on December 5
Check www.hvpg.org for additional screenings and times.

Dear Governor Cuomo… features a unique coalition of musicians, scientists and other participants who gathered in Albany in May 2012 to discuss and present evidence why the moratorium on hydraulic-fracturing should not be lifted in New York.

“I’ve made films about environmental issues literally around the world, only to discover that one of the biggest threats to clean water — fracking — is looming in my own backyard,” says director Jon Bowermaster.

Under the musical direction of Natalie Merchant, a concert event was put together and filmed by Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. The film features concert footage, and interviews featuring environmental biologist Sandra Steingraber, actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo, and musicians including Joan Osborne, Citizen Cope, Medeski Martin and Wood, Simi Stone, and The Felice Brothers.

Director Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer and filmmaker Bowermaster’s ten-year-long OCEANS 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak during the past ten years, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia and Tasmania to Antarctica.Recently named one of a dozen Ocean Heroes by the National Geographic Society, Jon’s most recent documentaries are “Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent,” “What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos” and the prize-winning “SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories.” He spent January 2012 in Antarctica producing the first 3D film about the seventh continent, to be distributed through museums and science institutions around the world beginning Spring 2013..