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Youngstown State University and the city of Youngstown will host a free public screening of the internationally acclaimed documentary “Fuel” at 4 p.m. Sunday in Schwebel Auditorium in Moser Hall on the YSU campus.

The film, a portrait of America’s addiction to oil and a testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

The film’s director, Josh Tickell, who spent 11 years and traveled to more than 25 countries to create the movie, will answer audience questions following the screening, at approximately 5:45 p.m.

The screening and Q&A session are free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the F1 parking lot on campus at the corner of Wick Avenue and University Plaza.

“Fuel” takes viewers on a tour of the petrochemical industry, covering everything from Rockefeller’s efforts to derail Ford’s first ethanol cars to legislation designed to benefit the petrochemical industry. Throughout the film, Tickell reveals a gamut of available solutions to “repower America,” from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and an array of environmentalists, policymakers and entertainment notables, including Sheryl Crow, Julia Roberts and Willie Nelson, shed light on America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a future where decentralized, sustainable living is possible.

For more information about the film, visit www.thefuelfilm.com.

The screening coincides with the two–day Sustainable Energy Forum hosted by YSU and the city of Youngstown on Monday and Tuesday. The forum will bring together representatives from government, industry and academe to focus on technologies related to renewable energy and energy efficiency and to discuss the role that the Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh technology belt can play in those emerging technologies. U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D–17th, will give the opening keynote address on Monday.