Coastal Commission Expose SINS OF COMMISSION Catches Fire!
Oshen is no better than Michael Moore or Al Gore.
Comment on INSIDE HOLLLYWOOD EXAMINER by Francis Drouillard March 24, 3:03 PM
Cool. Where do I get this film?
Comment on INSIDE HOLLLYWOOD EXAMINER by FILM GUY March 25, 11:58 PM
The battle heats up in response to Ginger Liu’s review of SINS OF COMMISSION… and the film isn’t even out yet – Nor is it likely it will be anytime soon since film festivals in the state of California will not screen it, including the LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.
The “criminalisation” of general care of one’s own land certainly seems un-American…
Comment on INSIDE HOLLLYWOOD EXAMINER by FREEMAN March 23, 5:21 PM
People in California must see this film. Sadly, it will take another catastrophic fire before Governor Schwarzenegger, the legislature, and the people take a serious look at the California Coastal Commission.
- Richard Oshen, FIlmmaker SINS OF COMMISSION
I am keenly interested, and intend to forward this to those who also make it their job to inform the public of such eye-opening situations. This is not some minor drab of a documentary, but one of great interest to all parties involved.
Comment on INSIDE HOLLLYWOOD EXAMINER by BW March 25, 7:56 AM
See how much fuss 144 words can create at INSIDE HOLLYWOOD EXAMINER
oshen is a wanted criminal; who is running from the law
Comment on INSIDE HOLLLYWOOD EXAMINER by LOPSIDED March 23, 8:57 AM
That accuser is slanderous. Accountability is a door that should swing both ways. The accuser is the one actually crossing the line into the arena of criminal behavior.
Comment on INSIDE HOLLLYWOOD EXAMINER by pG March 23, 12:51 PM
By taking on the California Coastal Commission head on, this riveting and intelligent documentary from Richard Oshen exposes the archaic and unbending rules of power on the lives of ordinary homeowners.
Ginger Liu INSIDE HOLLYWOOD EXAMINER
NATPE 2009 - Exhibition Floor Opens - Las Vegas
3 1/2 years after Peggy called me to document a California Coastal Commission inspection; SINS OF COMMISSION debuted at the 2009 NATPE CONVENTION (National Association of Television Program Executives), in LAS VEGAS.
Even though SINS OF COMMISSION is not finished, we had no choice but to present it to the global film and television distribution community.
Time is running out for California.
NATPE 2009 Opening on Chinese New Year
One question each distributor inevitably asks is why a film dealing with a local “California” issue has global importance. It’s a darn good question. Here’s my response -
ERIN BROKAVITCH was a film about a powerful utility company called P G & E (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) and took place in the sleepy southern California town of Hinkley. Who ever heard of Hinkley?
SILKWOOD was about a local small and previously unknown company, Kerr-McGee. The story took place in a Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. Does anyone know where Crescent is?
Everyone knows where the California is.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas….but what happens in California effects the world.
-Richard Oshen, Writer, Director, Producer
NATPE 2009 IDA Booth
The events revealed in ERIN BROKAVITCH and SILKWOOD entered our national debate and shaped policy.
Although the corruption each film exposed occurred in a local context… it occurs in every state in our nation and universally.
Each film’s specific event is a template anyone living anywhere in the world can identify with.
Same with SINS OF COMMISSION.
Corruption is universally understood.
California Wild Fires from Space
The dialog SINS OF COMMISSION ignites, will shape California state environmental policy and will also have a profound effect domestically and internationally for several reasons:
1) quasijudicial regulatory agencies operate in every state in our country and occur internationally
2) land use is an incredibly hot topic, and
3) the entire world is effected by the CO2 California emits each year from catastrophic wildfires
WE NEED YOUR HELP
NATPE 2009 - IDA Booth
SINS OF COMMISSION urgently needs your support to complete the film.
SINS OF COMMISSION is a fiscally sponsored film through the IDA – the International Documentary Association a 501 c3 Non Profit organization.
All contributions made thru the IDA are tax deductible.
Times are tough for all of us, but so are we…and they won’t get better unless we pull together.
SINS OF COMMISION- The Poster
SINS OF COMMISSION IS GOING TO NATPE!
If you are a cable or television broadcaster, film or television distributor, and going to NATPE, January 26 to 29, 2009, stop by the IDA booth (International Documentary Association) and pick up a full length DVD of SINS OF COMMISSION.
Hot topic and getting hotter.
Booth space is limited… so there won’t be a lot of DVD’s on hand.
More at http://www.sinsofcommission.com
As long as America pursues a reckless doctrine of “all war all the time,” everyone and everything suffers: you, me, the enviroment, and all living things.
Richard Oshen
SAVE THE WHALES!
- US Navy ship background. Orca whales foreground. (Photo: Kenneth Balcomb / Center for Whale Research)
Southern California coastal waters are home to at least 37 species of marine mammals,including pygmy sperm whales, coastal bottlenose dolphins and endangered blue whales.*
They deserve to be protected against the Navy’s sonar that produces piercing underwater sounds 2,000 times louder than a jet engine. Scientists say sonar use can cause hearing loss, cranial bleeding, behavioral modifications and mass strandings. (source: Truthout)
Protecting Whales is absolutely what the California Coastal Commission ought to be doing.
This is what PROTECTING THE COAST means to most people - You know, looking after our beaches, ocean, animals, fish and flora that live in the sea and going up to 1,000 yards inland like the people originally intended.
SINS OF COMMISSION discovered the coastal commission caprisiously uses the term, “Protecting the Coast”, as its calling-card to grab land 5 miles away. Going after homeowners who paint homes a particular color or decide to build a Victorian style house may go against someone’s personal aesthetics, but to save the coast from Victorian homes, is not saving nor protecting the coast as it was originally defined in the coastal act. Preventing some one from clearing dirt that falls on a driveway, without a permit or using a weed wacker, would be a stretch too.
*guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 8 2008 21.45 BST
Pacific Coast Highway Productions, Inc. announces the release of its first feature length documentary film, SINS OF COMMISSION .
SINS OF COMMISSION is the first documentary film to expose decades of abuse of power by the California Coastal Commission, and the first documentary film to investigate the possible link between this abuse and the increasing intensity of recent wildfires in California.
A Sin of Omission is failure to do what one must do.
A Sin of Commission is to know something is wrong… and do it anyway.
Log Line:
SINS OF COMMISSION slips behind the veil of secrecy into the invisible world of the California Coastal Commission to reveal how they have corrupted environmentalism and risk people’s lives while fueling California’s wildfires… and why no one does anything about it.
SINS OF COMMISSION was written, directed, and produced by Richard Oshen.
For festival inquiries contact SINS OF COMMISSION directly at sinsofcommission@gmail.com
