Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor
Sunday April 18 at 2:00pm
Directors: Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville.
Leonardo DiCaprio, co-producer  

Sunday April 19 at 2:00pm, Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor (99mins)

Directors: Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville. Leonardo DiCaprio, co-producer  

A film about the Formula E that presents itself as a planet-conscious endorsement of clean-energy technology, but is mostly about the brash personalities competing for the championship. Professional drivers on the international Formula E circuit - like Formula One, but with eco-friendly electric cars - race for victory across 10 cities in this white-knuckle documentary. The phrase “And we go green!” is the “and we’re off!” of a Formula E race, though the construction and maintenance of these machines is green relative only to its fossil-fuel-guzzling cousins in the motorsports world. Formula E cars are harder for drivers to control or that they can’t keep enough of a charge to finish an entire race. (The drivers have to jump into a second car at the halfway point, though the series has since developed longer-lasting batteries. The trick for drivers to perform effectively is to manage the power they have closely or risk stalling out on the track. 
One of the hopeful aspects of the film is how the cutting edge technology necessitated by Formula E will filter down into ordinary cars.