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Still image from <a href="http://vimeo.com/54623400">Vimeo video by Laura Newman</a> Last month, director <a href="http://vimeo.com/user840308">Josh Fox</a> premiered his new documentary film “<a href="http://vimeo.com/54432527">Occupy Sandy: A Human Response to the New Realities of Climate Change</a>” against the wall of a building above the Mobil gas station at Avenue C and Houston Street in lower Manhattan. The flash mob of viewers who packed onto the concrete below had only received the exact location of the “guerilla” screening 15 minutes before its debut, following succint instructions to “text @climatecrime to 23559 to stay in the loop”. Read on for some highlights from the new film, which chronicles the efforts of the <a href="http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/">Occupy Sandy movement</a> after the storm.

<span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small">The 20-minute film featured interviews with residents, volunteers and activists at <a href="http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/locations/">Occupy Sandy headquarters</a> and in some of the New Yorks worst affected disaster sites - The Rockaways, Queens and Sheapshead Bay Brooklyn.

In this latest work, the connection is made between Hurricane Sandy and global climate change as it calls for fossil fuel companies to own up to their responsibilities and for a clean energy revolution. During one on screen interview, Bill Mckibben, the environmentalist organizer behind the <a href="http://www.350.org/">360.org</a> movement suggests that Hurricane Sandy be renamed “hurricane Exxon.” </span>

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The film’s director, Josh Fox, is also the creator of Gasland, the film known for bringing light to the controversial environmental health issues of </span><span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small">hydraulic fracturing, or fracking</span><span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small">. In this latest work, the connection is made between Hurricane Sandy and global climate change as it calls for fossil fuel companies to own up to their responsibilities and for a clean energy revolution.

<span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small">After the film, Joan Flynn, a resident of 40 years on the <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=rockaway+peninsula&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wl">Rockaway Peninsula</a> (an area heavily damaged during the hurricane and the site of much Occupy Sandy volunteerism), spoke about her traumatic experience during the peak hours of the storm.

<span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small">Next Vivian Troung spoke, representing the <a href="http://caaav.org/">Committee against anti Asian Violence</a>, the organization responsible for the bulk of relief assistance in Chinatown during the lower Manhattan flooding post Sandy. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/171499/photoessay-sandy-ravaged-rockaways-one-month-out?rel=facebookphoto">Like volunteers in the Rockaways</a>, CAAAV volunteers canvased door to door to bring food, supplies and medical aid to those in need while FEMA was missing in action.</span>

<span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small"> For those of you who missed the premier, the film is now online for your viewing pleasure<a href="http://vimeo.com/54432527"> here</a>. </span>

<span style="font-family: Arial;font-size: small"> For those of you who missed the premier, the film is now online for your viewing pleasure<a href="http://vimeo.com/54432527"> here</a>. </span>

</span> For more information about how to get involved with Occupy Sandy, visit the <a href="http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/volunteer/">volunteer website</a>.

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