So I ran into a film school friend at a backyard get together this weekend, and it just happened.

He has all the equipment and editing skills, I have the knowledge and connections, why not make a film about Peak Oil, but do it documentary style? When it's done, we'll get it out underground via DVD replication and use the Internet as well. Here's the idea:

All the videos I see about sustainability and yada yada look more like classroom assignments or industrial training films than entertainment. And that's the way I want to help break through with pop culture... to show how Portland culture is cool because of enlightened hipness and ways we are preparing.

I was amazed at this little backyard gathering, how interested everyone was in conversing about the huge apple tree in my friend's backyard... and how we will swap apples for my pears and plums when they ripen. And while he is growing pumpkins, I'm growing strawberries, and so on. Someone else piped up what they were starting to grow on THEIR land.

So, there are many Portlanders very interested in local home grown organics and trading with people in their own peer groups / local circles. But it seems stuck at the tribal level... not yed a fad, but mainstream enough to catch fire and speed up the adoption process at a mass level, at least among this demographic.

These are people that grew up on Nintendo and the Dead Kennedys if you know what I mean. Now they are converting their car ports into outdoor party pads and community gathering places.

I think all we need to do is make a cool indie film that shows how hip it is to be peak oil ready. On the serious side, I'll integrate footage such as our meetings, activities, outreach... put in local interviews, etc.

Anyway, there are several people that have the skills and means ready to help, so our budget is all volunteer, resources and participation.

Any ideas for things you think absolutely should be included in such a film... let me know, I'm building the outline right now!