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Counterspill.org Sweeps The Webby Awards: A New Platform to Oppose Big Energy

Posted by Mountainfilm on Jun 21, 2012 - 9:56am / Full Article »

We’re pleased to announce that Counterspill.org, a website co-founded by Chris Paine— director of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Revenge of the Electric Car— and sponsored by Mountainfilm in Telluride recently won three Webby Awards.

Counterspill offers an opposing view to the stories spun from government agencies and energy companies. Its goal is to provide “a one-stop multi-tiered communication resource to create and respond…to energy industry narratives.” Those narratives, produced by big energy, “minimize liability, deflect, defend, distract and return to the status quo. For them, the faster an incident is out of the public mind, the better.”

Counterspill fights society’s short-term memory deficit by documenting disasters from the past 100 years with oil, nuclear and other energy producers, as well as posting updates on recent events.

To Watch: Everything You Need To Know About Electric Cars

Posted by Mountainfilm on Nov 4, 2011 - 12:38pm / Full Article »

Chris Paine's film Revenge of the Electric Car showed Mountainfilm 2011 audiences how the Electric Car transformation was inevitable. If you were inspired by the film and thinking about an electric car for yourself, here is a short video primer on Electric Cars from GOOD Magazine.

"Revenge of the Electric Car" Director Chris Paine Speaks Out

Posted by Mountainfilm on Oct 21, 2011 - 10:13am / Full Article »

Revenge of the Electric Car, which opened Mountainfilm 2011, comes to theaters across the country this weekend. Director Chris Paine shared his thoughts about the challenges of making this film in an interview with the design site, Inhabitat.

"The new film Revenge of the Electric Car debuts in just a few days and we were recently lucky enough to catch up with director Chris Paine to get the inside scoop on this sequel to his popular film Who Killed the Electric Car? The film brings awareness to how electric vehicles were able to break through an incredible number of obstacles to get to where they are today. We sat down with Chris Paine to ask him all about the new film, how he felt when he suddenly found himself to be a part of his own movie, and what he sees in the future of green transportation."

Trailer: "Revenge of the Electric Car"

Posted by Mountainfilm on May 12, 2011 - 11:12am / Full Article »

According to Revenge of the Electric Car, the electric car is back with a vengeance, and we're excited to be screening the film at this year's festival.

In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is back... with a vengeance. In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to find the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever.