Notes from the World Premiere

Executive produced by Ed Begley Jr., this timely documentary from filmmaker Rick Cutter investigates what happens when the grid that powers everything starts to fail and AI data centers put additional strain on power grids worldwide.

Using California's devastating wildfires as a gateway to a larger global story, Cutter speaks with leading energy experts, innovators, and policymakers about the urgent challenge of modernizing the infrastructure that powers our lives.

Field Notes

Forest fires. The grid + weather creating fires. Paradise, CA.

Why are we so hooked to the grid? Is there a better way?

The grid started as a small project, but no one really knows how or when it exactly began.

Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair. We need a plan for fire prevention, not just fire response.

Is time running out and are we losing our home?

What stuck with me

What stuck with me is how the film doesn't stay in the alarm. It frames the fix as a moon shot the same Apollo era thinking that once put a man on the moon a common sense pitch for a plan to fix it.

I couldn't be happier to help bring awareness to this film.

— Panamera Media Co, Live from the 34th Hamptons International Film Festival