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Special Screening of CLIMATE OF CHANGE on June 16
Date: May 6, 2010Please join us for a Special Screening of CLIMATE OF CHANGE, which just had its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
WHEN: 6:30 P.M. screening, reception to follow
Wednesday, June 16
WHERE: Letelier Theater (both screening and reception)
3251 Prospect Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007
(use stairs next to Cafe Milano to upper courtyard)
TICKETS: RSVP required. $20 per person, seating is limited, please pay cash or check at the door. E-mail chris@envirofilmfest.org to RSVP.
Wine reception catered by Sweetgreen follows screening.
CLIMATE OF CHANGE (USA, 2010, 85 min.) Driving Climate of Change is the beautiful narration written by British poet Simon Armitage and mellifluously voiced by Tilda Swinton. "We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India. He and his fellow voraciously energetic students actively rally against the use of plastics. In Africa, a renaissance man teaches citizens to harness solar power to cook food. In Papua New Guinea, villagers practice sustainable logging to save their rainforests. A woman in London uses her PR savvy to start a successful environmental communications firm. Self-described "hillbillies" in Appalachia battle the big business behind strip mining. In this rich and inspiring documentary, director Brian Hill takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment. Hill and his cinematographers create a real sense of ambience in each of the countries and communities they visit. Conversations with West Virginians are punctuated by footage of mountaintops surrounding their homes being dynamited; Papua New Guineans talk among the giant trees being decimated by commercial logging. A visit to the Global Seed Vault built in the Norwegian permafrost in Svalbard, Norway is particularly ethereal.
Directed by Brian Hill. Narrated by Tilda Swinton. Participant Media and the Alliance for Climate Protection present a Century Films Production. Distributed by Tribeca Films.
INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER BRIAN HILL
EFF Program Updates
Date: March 16, 2010“The Saltmen of Tibet” will screen on March 21 at 1:00 p.m., not 3:30 p.m. and “The Silent Holy Stones” will screen at 3:30 p.m., not 1:00 p.m., followed by a discussion with writer and director Wanma-Caidan.
“Out of Yellowstone” will not be screened on March 23 at the Carnegie Institution. A substitute film will be announced soon.
The Ambassador of Denmark Friis Arne Petersen will introduce the screening of “One Degree Matters,” which will be followed by discussion with Director Eskil Hardt at the AED Globe Theater on March 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Director Carter Gunn will speak after the screening of “Colony” at the AFI Silver Theatre on March 18 at 7:15 p.m.
Director Sandy Cioffi will speak following the screening of “Sweet Crude” at the AED Globe Theater on March 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Director Margot Benacerraf will not speak after “Araya” on March 20 due to illness.
Underwater photographer Nick Caloyianis will introduce “Turtle: The Incredible Journey” at the AFI Silver Theater on March 21 at 3:00 pm. Discussion with Mr. Caloyianis and Neal, Leah Aquarist, National Aquarium, follows screening.
National Museum of Natural History Director Cristián Samper will introduce the film, “The Legend of Pale Male” on March 27 at 12 noon at the Natural History Museum.
"Birds in the Park" Land to Celebrate Environmental Film Festival!
Date: March 15, 2010“Birds in the Park,” a public art installation of porcelain birds created by artist Christy Hengst, will arrive in D.C. this week to celebrate EFF.
On March 18 the birds will land in the center of the Smithsonian Mall at 9th St.; on March 19 in Dupont Circle; and on March 21 in Upper Senate Park, Constitution and Delaware Aves., NE, by the U.S. Capitol Building. Like live birds, these birds will not stay long: some 30 birds will appear at each location at 8:00 a.m. and disappear by the evening.
The flock of porcelain birds is handmade with cobalt images and text printed onto them investigating aspects of humanity.
2010 EFF Full Film Schedule Released!
Date: February 9, 2010The full film schedule for the 2010 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital has now been released online and in print. To request a printed program, please sign up for our mailing list or e-mail us at info@envirofilmfest.org.
Special Sneak Preview Screening of HOMEGROWN on October 28 with Special Guest Nora Pouillon
Date: October 7, 2009WHEN: 6:30 P.M.
Wednesday, October 28
WHERE: Letelier Theater (both reception and screening)
3251 Prospect Street, NW
(use stairs next to Cafe Milano to upper courtyard)
Washington, D.C. 20007
TICKETS: $20 per person, seating is limited.
E-mail chris@envirofilmfest.org to RSVP.
HOMEGROWN (USA, 2008, 52 min.) spotlights a 21st century organic family farm operating off the grid in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. The film documents the activities of the Dervaes family, eco-pioneers who harvest 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own biodiesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, handle their own waste water and maintain a Web site that gets 4,000 hits a day. In addition to growing much of their own food, they raise a menagerie of chickens, ducks, and goats. Ultimately a family story, the film is an intimate human portrait of what it's like to live according to your environmental ideals.
Directed by Robert McFalls.
After the screening, Nora Pouillon of Restaurant Nora, the first certified organic restaurant in the country, will speak. A reception will follow with passed hors d'oeuvres provided by Nora Pouillon along with wines from Domaine Pouillon, a biodynamic vineyard near the Columbia River Gorge in Washington State.
