Jane Fonda Stars in Greenpeace's First Feature Doc 'Gaslit'
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- "Gaslit" is the first feature-length film produced by Greenpeace USA, with director Katie Camosy saying the organization backed the project "without trying to dictate what it is or isn't," allowing voices "from all ends of the political spectrum."
- Jane Fonda stars as herself taking a road trip through oil and gas fields in the Southern U.S., visiting communities affected by refinery-driven air and water pollution — and opens the film by acknowledging her celebrity is a spotlight she's using to amplify those people.
- Katie Camosy joined Greenpeace in 2015 as a video producer and previously collaborated with Fonda on the "Fire Drill Friday" series; a 2022 Texas trip investigating liquefied natural gas gave her the story that became "Gaslit."
- Connie Britton and singer Maggie Rogers appear in the documentary, both joining at Fonda's suggestion — Britton because of her "Friday Night Lights" connection to Texas, and Rogers to meet Louisiana activist Jo Banner of Wallace.
- Archival footage from Greenpeace's Texas and Louisiana work in the 1980s and 1990s is woven into the film, including previously unseen footage of Herbert from Mossville, a resident Camosy's team also interviewed in the present day.
- Camosy frames the film around the belief that "climate stories are human stories," tying fossil fuels to war, new technologies, and what she calls growing public frustration with data centers and volatile energy costs.
Why it matters: Greenpeace USA's first feature-length film marks a shift for the organization from campaign-driven short content to a long-form documentary, leveraging Fonda's celebrity to put a national spotlight on refinery-adjacent Southern communities rarely centered in climate journalism.
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