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Music by
  
David Majzlin

Distributed by
  
The Film Collaborative

Director
  
Shalini Kantayya

Music director
  
David Majzlin

7.3/10
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Directed by
  
Shalini Kantayya

Productioncompany
  
7th Empire Media

Initial release
  
12 June 2015

Screenplay
  
Shalini Kantayya

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Produced by
  
Shalini KantayyaAarti TandonCedric Troadec

Edited by
  
Michael CulybaShalini KantayyaTyler H. Walk

Producers
  
Shalini Kantayya, Aarti Tandon, Cédric Troadec

Similar
  
Carbon Nation, The Fourth Revolution: Energy, Powerful: Energy for Everyone, Rafea: Solar Mama, Fuel

Profiles

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Catching the Sun is a 2015 documentary film on the growth of the solar power industry. Directed by Shalini Kantayya, the film features portraits of diverse personalities and their roles in the transition to solar power. Unemployed workers in Richmond, California, businessmen in China, Tea Party activists, and would be White House adviser are all featured in the film. The film attempts to debunk a false dilemma that clean energy requires sacrificing economic prosperity.

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Synopsis

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The film begins with the 2012 Chevron refinery fire in Richmond, California and contrasts the possibilities for Richmond of an energy sector based on solar installation versus continued pollution and economic stagnation from an energy industry rooted on the oil refinery. The film gives a short history of solar technology in the United States, and the road not taken when, on his first day in office, Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels Jimmy Carter had placed on the White House, and abandoned policies to further solar development.

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The film features unemployed workers in Northern California receiving Green-collar job training from Solar Richmond to work in the emergent field of solar installation. Van Jones features prominently in the documentary, which depicts his early work in Green for All, his family's relocation from Oakland to Washington, DC to take advantage of a White House job offer, and Jones's subsequent resignation in the face sustained attacks from conservative media.

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Conservative Debbie Dooley from Atlanta, Georgia rejects an ideological divide between the left and right on clean energy. Through her organization, Conservatives for Energy Freedom, she advocates for clean energy by breaking down barriers that favor the incumbent energy industry and restrict a true free market.

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While ideological gridlock weighs on American energy policy, other countries move forward. A profile on Zhongwei Jiang, a Chinese entrepreneur based in Wuxi, China gives perspective on solar growth in Germany, India, and China. Jiang, who grew up without electricity until the age of seven, founded the solar company WesTech in 2003. Jiang conducts an international business in solar products and dreams of a "Solar City" in Texas where thousands of Americans would be employed in the solar sector.

Director

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The film is the documentary debut for Indian-born and Brooklyn-based, eco-activist and filmmaker Shalini Kantayya. Kantayya had a career breakthrough when she became a finalist in the 2007 reality TV show On the Lot.

Release

The film debuted at the 2015 LA Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release in the United States in Spring 2016. Soon after release, the film became available on Netflix.

References

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