Joshua Tickell
Josh Tickell is film Director who specializes in movies with a social message. His first feature movie, Fuel (2008) won the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary, and was released theatrically in the United States. FUEL became a global sensation gaining over 1 million viewers on Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and CNBC. The movie was screened in the W...
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Josh Tickell is film Director who specializes in movies with a social message. His first feature movie, Fuel (2008) won the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary, and was released theatrically in the United States. FUEL became a global sensation gaining over 1 million viewers on Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and CNBC. The movie was screened in the White House for energy and environment staff working in the Obama Administration.Tickell has been a featured guest on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Discovery, Reuters, NBC, Fox and NPR. Articles on Tickell and his films have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, The Huffington Post, Hustler Magazine, Maxim Magazine, Popular Mechanics and thousands of international newspapers and magazines.Tickell also directed the Cannes Film Festival movie, The Big Fix (2011). The film explores possible connections between corporate and political malfeasance and the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. He went on to direct his third film, Freedom (2011), which focuses on alcohol fuel and aired on the SuperChannel in Canada. He just completed his latest documentary, PUMP (2014), and is currently in production on Good Fortune (2015), The Official Biography of John Paul DeJoria, Co-Founder of Patrón Tequila and Paul Mitchell Systems.Josh Tickell holds an undergraduate degree in Sustainable Living from the New College of South Florida and a Masters in Film from Florida State University's School of Motion Picture Arts. Show less «
[having final cut as part of their agreement on Good Fortune (2016)] He [John Paul DeJoria] was surprisingly cool about the whole thing. We ...Show more »
[having final cut as part of their agreement on Good Fortune (2016)] He [John Paul DeJoria] was surprisingly cool about the whole thing. We wanted to tell a story that's true but also highlights something positive someone is doing for the world. There's value in having positive role models and stories, especially seeing where we are now as a nation. We need to hear the good stories about good Americans doing good things. He's human, not perfect, but he strives to make the world a better place and he does in fact do that. [2017] Show less «
[on Good Fortune (2016)] We were filming ongoing for two years. We'd get JP [John Paul DeJoria] for a period of time and then we'd do a seri...Show more »
[on Good Fortune (2016)] We were filming ongoing for two years. We'd get JP [John Paul DeJoria] for a period of time and then we'd do a series of interviews with people connected to him. Little nuggets of his past would come up and we'd just chase them down. [2017] Show less «
[on first meeting John Paul DeJoria at the Fuel (2008) premiere] We premiered at Sundance. John Paul stood up in the back and said, 'Everyon...Show more »
[on first meeting John Paul DeJoria at the Fuel (2008) premiere] We premiered at Sundance. John Paul stood up in the back and said, 'Everyone needs to see this film.' He later became an executive producer to "Fuel" and we have worked with him on and off for a decade. [2017] Show less «
