Promised Land, an anti-fracking film written and produced by Hollywood stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski is part financed by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media which is owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi media was created in 2007 with $27.3 million as part of the governments effort […]
Promised Land, an anti-fracking film written and produced by Hollywood stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski is part financed by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media which is owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi media was created in 2007 with $27.3 million as part of the governments effort to diversify its economy into new markets such as media production.
The US has seen a revolution in natural gas production with the increased use of fracking a process that uses technology to drill new wells and open up gas reserves that were once thought inaccessible.
As fracking has found wider use, especially in the U.S., natural gas production has soared, bringing new jobs and economic opportunity to many American communities and weakening the hold that states such as the UAE once had on oil and gas production and global prices.
The film tells the story of Steve Butler (Damon), a natural gas company salesman, as he travels to an impoverished Pennsylvania town trying to acquire drilling rights from local landowners and environmentalist Dustin Noble (Krasinksi), who is keen on stopping him.
The film had a limited release in the United States on December 28, 2012 and a nationwide expansion on January 4, 2013. The film also scheduled to have its international premiere at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2013.
