Rebecca Reynolds Tickell (née Harrell; born March 2, 1980) is a producer, director, actress, singer, and environmental activist.

She became sick during the making of this film due to exposure to the mixture of oil and Corexit, which resulted in an irreversible skin condition.

[7] The Village Voice wrote, "The film's scope is staggering, including its detailed outlining of BP’s origins and fingerprints across decades of unrest in Iran.

[citation needed] In 2014, Harrell Tickell directed and produced the documentary film Pump, which is funded by the Fuel Freedom Foundation,[11] whose aim is to reduce American dependence on imported oil through replacing it with US-produced methanol from fossil gas, compressed natural gas (obtained by fracking) and biofuels.

[15] The Tickells made a documentary about the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline construction and associated protests on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

The film has received criticism for its uncritical presentation of the ideas of Allan Savory, a controversial figure who has claimed that the carbon sequestration potential of holistic grazing is immune from empirical scientific study.

[16] A Food and Climate Research Network meta-study found that Savory's claims were "unrealistic" and very different from those issued by peer-reviewed studies.

"We really view it, not to sound grandiose, as an Apollo mission for algae and renewable fuel" Harrell Tickell told Scientific American.