Last Call of the Oasis

Official synopsis: Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc. and Waiting For “Superman”, Last Call at the Oasis presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.

Director bio: Jessica Yu is a director of both documentaries and scripted films. She won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short for Breathing Lessons, a film about Mark O’Brien, the poet who was confined to an iron lung. Her feature comedy debut, Ping Pong Playa premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released by IFC Films. Her documentaries include the theatrical features Protagonist, In The Realms of The Unreal, HBO’s The Living Museum, and the hybrid short The Kinda Sutra, all of which premiered at Sundance. Currently Yu is in production on a film about the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique.

Clip (Jack Black tries bottled water, created by treated sewage)

Trailer