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According to the U. Energy Information Agency, U. But after , fracking and enhanced geological mapping technology touched off a revolution in domestic oil and natural gas production, with natural gas production alone jumping 58 percent by From through , the United States produced consecutive historical records for natural gas withdrawals.

In the U. The lower cost and greater abundance of domestic natural gas led U. A report from TD Bank projected a direct economic benefit for American households because of the natural gas fracking boom. The main person featured in the film is Katie Fahey, a Michigan political activist who founded Voters Not Politicians VNP , a left-of-center advocacy and lobbying group.

Fahey and VNP organized a successful petition drive to place a proposed state constitutional amendment on the Michigan ballot Proposal 2 of that created a new process for drawing political district maps. These perceptions are significantly contradicted by the financial reality of the Proposal 2 campaign.

To promote the agenda of the film, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, Participant formed an official partnership [89] with Represent. Us , an advocacy organization funded by left-leaning donors that promotes using taxpayer dollars to fund the campaigns of politicians and other restrictions on political free speech; [90] [91] and Move to Amend , a pressure group endorsed by dozens of left-leaning organizations that promotes an amendment to the U. Constitution that would repeal the U. As of January , at least five of the feature films that have been promoted by Participant feature either highly sympathetic portrayals of Democrats and individuals closely aligned with Democratic politicians, or sharply critical portrayals of Republican politicians and individuals closely aligned with them.

President, who was assassinated years before Participant was founded. Participant also produces films with no definitive ideological or political bias, including those advancing a social agenda or recounting a historical incident.

It spurred a public conversation that we weren't having in the same way before. Canadian engineer Jeff Skoll became a Silicon Valley superstar as the first president of eBay , where he helped launch the eBay Foundation.

A onetime major stockholder in the auction site, Skoll built his fortune there before exiting the company in He also founded the Skoll Foundation , which continues to invest in social entrepreneurship, before launching Participant Media.

In a TED Talk , Skoll said he had created the media company out of a combined desire to invest in organizations and businesses working for social change and to make morally compelling films such as Gandhi and Schindler's List — the kind of films that had inspired him but weren't being made at the time he founded the company. In , Participant Media launched its first slate of films, including the narrative features North Country , Syriana , and Good Night, and Good Luck , as well as the documentary Murderball.

The company partnered with organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union , PBS , and the Sierra Club on social campaigns in conjunction with those early films. Participant Media began primarily as an investor in quality content, but it soon shifted to producing. We were always looking through that lens for the right type of content to get involved with. In his eleven years at Participant Media, Brakin has seen the company embark on a "steady evolution" from financing and working with partners, to co-financing projects, to taking the "lead from a creative perspective on 80 percent to 90 percent of the projects that we're involved with at this point.

The world is catching up to the vision that Jeff had when he started [Participant] that our company really has to [make] a positive contribution to society. In , Participant Media became a certified B Corporation, a designation for businesses that "balance purpose and profit" by using business for good. Participant Media currently produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic TV series, and more than thirty hours of digital short-form programming annually through its digital subsidiary, SoulPancake.

Since Holly Gordon joined the company in , she's overseen the launch of social-impact campaigns around this content, including the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary RBG and its narrative counterpart, On the Basis of Sex.

Even with Participant Media's success in tapping socially relevant content, Gordon repeatedly faces the question of how to use storytelling to deliver maximum impact. Watch The Trailer Join the Movement. When government fails, we all pay the price.

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