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Today peakoil.nl reported a Swiss movie on peak oil, called Oilcrash, is soon to be released: it's supposed to be "a 90minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources" and has been selected for screening at the South by Southwest Festival (www.sxsw.com) in Austin, TX. The festival is to take place from March 10 - 19, 2006.

A press conference will be held in the Austin Convention Center on March 11.

More information can be gathered from the movie website.

Here's a quote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n this compelling and highly entertaining documentary, OilCrash, Producers/Directors Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack together with Reto Caduff explain why the imminent peak in oil production will present the world with the most dire and immediate repercussions. OilCrash is the story of how our civilization as we know it, is on a collision course with geology.

Supported by a powerful mix of archival footage, NASA shots of burning oil fields, and historical film excerpts, OilCrash guides us on an exotic, visual journey to Houston and the West Texas oil country, Caracas, the Lake of Maracaibo, the Orinoco delta, Central Asia’s secretive republic of Azerbaijan with its ancient capital Baku and the Caspian Sea, Shanghai, Hong Kong and London. We visit the worlds' capitals to learn of our future from such leading authorities as oil investment banker Matthew Simmons, former OPEC chairman Fadhil Chalabhi, and legendary former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani.