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Out of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Tom Jackson.

The film is an exploration of the climate crisis, the world's scientists conclusions about climate change, and the efforts by oil and gas multinational ExxonMobil to block efforts to address the problem. The film features interviews with notable scientists and activists, including Ben Cohen, Kert Davies, Brenda Ekwurzel, Bill McKibben, Michael Oppenheimer, and others.

Synopsis
Jackson begins in voice over noting that there is consensus about the crisis of climate change, while video footage of the impact of climate change on weather and storms plays. Jackson then notes that ExxonMobil is the richest company in the world. A history of ExxonMobil, formerly Standard Oil is then described, ending with details about the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. In narration, Jackson characterizes the oil giant's response to the oil spill as a "dress rehearsal" for the misinformation that the company would release in response to the issue of anthropogenic climate change. Following the Exxon Valdez spill, the company

Produced in 2006, Jackson believed that the documentary would be the first ever released that addressed the anthropogenic climate change issue, and the primary reason why the topic was still in debate mode. "We were six months into shooting the film when all of a sudden in May there was a barrage of pre-release promotion of this new film called An Inconvenient Truth. As it turns out, that film probably opened more doors for Out of Balance, rather than overshadowing it, because Out of Balance is more pointed in its criticism of the people who spearheaded the misinformation campaign on climate change."

Critical Reception
""Imagine Michael Moore with humility. Tom Jackson goes on a personal quest to find out more about climate change and the huge forces that are blocking imperative change. Jackson exposes the most dangerous practice of our time: record profits at ANY cost." − Norman Solomon, Public Accuracy"

The documentary has been available in DVD on Netflix since 2008.

The documentary screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide, winning awards at the following:


 * Best Feature Film in the Environmental Preservation category from Artivist Film Festival in 2007
 * Best of Festival, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, Seattle, WA (November, ’07)
 * Special Jury Award, International Film Festival of Lifestyle, Szolnok, Hungary (Oct. ’07)
 * 2nd Place, Best International Feature, Aotearoa Environmental Film Festival, New Zealand (July ’07)

Other film festivals included Sierra Club Energy Film Festival 2007-2008 (US & Canada), SURGE Film Festival, Olympia, WA, One World Slovakia (Bratislava, Slovakia), RioFest (2008), Theskri Monoprosopi Environmental Film Festival (Athens, Greece), International Documentary Film Festival in Mexico City, Cinematik IFF (Piestany, Slovakia), Festival of Liberties FF (Brussels, Belgium), Wild & Scenic Environmental FF, Colorado Environmental FF, Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey), Rencontres Int. du Documentaire de Montreal.

The documentary aired on Telesur Internacional, which broadcasts throughout Latin America. It also aired numerous times on LinkTV, which is on both major US satellite networks. The channel used it as a fundraising perk during their fall 2007 fund drive.

Reuters interviewed Jackson about the documentary for an article called "Out of Balance" Climate Film Targets ExxonMobil". An ExxonMobil executive was also interviewed for the article, and brushed off the accusations in the documentary as "Discredited conspiracy theories".