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Environmental Film Festival - April 12, 2008, 11am – 9pm
At the Lincoln Center Columbine Room, 417 West Magnolia Fort Collins, CO
The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association announces the Environmental Film Festival on April 12th, featuring local and national short films on some of today’s most timely topics of sustainable food, global warming, consumption, alternative energy and more. The Film Festival is dedicated to the education and awareness of the public about issues that explore the interconnectedness of our natural and human worlds. Audiences will have time to discuss films during intermission, offering the opportunity to connect, motivate and transform our ideas into action.
Tickets are $5 each and you can stay as long as you like. Seating is not reserved and is available on a first-come, first-served base, approximately 200 seats available. Beverages, beer, wine and snacks will be available for purchase.
Bonus Event: Electronics Recycling Collection will be available at the Environmental Film Festival between the hours of 10am – 4pm; minor fees apply for larger objects. Recycling provided by GRX, a genuine recycler dedicated to proper handling of electronic waste. www.grxrecycles.com
Film Schedule: (Schedule is subject to change, please check back regularly)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Who’s Got the Power?
12:30– 1:30: Energy Crossroads
2:00 – 3:00: National Sacrifice Zone: Colorado and the Cost of Energy Independence
3:30 – 4:00: emPOWERed
4:00 – 4:30: Drop by Drop & Carpa Diem
5:00 – 6:00: True Cost of Food & What Will We Eat?
6:30 – 8:00: Story of Stuff & Buyer be Fair
8:30 – 9:00: Veggie Van Voyage & French Fries to Go
Who’s Got the Power?
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Executive Producer: Casey Coates Danson, 58 minutes
 "Who's Got the Power?" addresses head on the reality of global warming, caused by carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - and presents genuine and workable solutions. The film emphasizes that renewable energy resources - solar, wind, biomass and geothermal - are viable alternatives to our dependence on fossil fuels. From the vantage points of world-renowned scientists, environmental activists, physicians, financial advisers, designers, builders, coal miners and others, the global warming debate unfolds. In addition, inner city and suburban consumers in America, Germany and Japan share their positive experiences with solar-powered housing. www.globalpossibilities.org
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Energy Crossroads: The Burning Need to Change Course
12:30– 1:30 pm:
Director: Christophe Fauchere, 67 minutes
 Earth's finite resources are depleting rapidly. Most experts agree that global peak oil production - when demand exceeds supply - will occur within the next 15 years, and will drastically change the very fabric of our industrialized world. Although our modern world is much more complex than some ancient civilizations were just before their dramatic fall, the fast growing global population, and our growing appetite for energy and natural resources, provide a chilling reminder of those long-dead societies. It is clear that in order for us to survive our modern self-destructive tendencies, we will have to change course drastically and as fast as possible. Ordinary Americans, scientists and businesses are already leading the way for a more sustainable future. Will America be up to the task? www.energyxroads.com
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National Sacrifice Zone: Colorado and the Cost of Energy Independence
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Director: Joseph Brown, 60 minutes
 "National Sacrifice Zone: Colorado and the Cost of Energy Independence" is a documentary that takes a critical look at the effects of the most current Rocky Mountain energy boom. Including commentary from both energy "experts" and local individuals affected by energy development, "National Sacrifice Zone" tells the story of the conflict between consumption and environmental degradation taking place in our back yards.
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emPOWERed
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Director: Coll Metcalfe, 23 minutes
"What kind of a human are you?" the Reverend Sally Bingham asks. This question is the central challenge of "emPOWERed," which renders the sweeping issue of climate change in moral yet attainable terms. Narrated by Ashley Judd, "emPOWERed" illustrates that the solution to the global problem of climate change begins with the individual. Against the backdrop of runaway energy consumption, CO2 emissions and global warming, a crusading home builder, an outspoken church minister and a visionary school administrator show us that saving the planet can be as simple as changing a light bulb. "emPOWERed" illustrates that the key to turning the tide on global warming is turning a few good deeds into a mass movement - one that every viewer is challenged to join.
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Drop by Drop
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Director: Bryan Simpson, 20 minutes
Description coming soon!
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Carpa Diem
Director: Sergio Cannella, 2 minutes
 Before sleeping, a child in her apartment is lovingly watching a fish (just a carp) in the aquarium. In the meantime her younger brother is playing and listening to the music in the bathroom. Above all, he's mindless of the tap just opened and liters of water flowing out of the washbasin. A waste that could turn into a tragedy… www.sergiocannella.it
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True Cost of Food
5:00 – 5:15 pm
 Created by: The Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption Committee, 15 minutes
A campaign to promote sustainable food choices. “We, the consumers, through our food choices, can stop the practices that harm our health, our planet, and our quality of life.”
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What will we Eat?
5:30 – 6:00 pm
Director: Chris Bedford, 26 minutes
"What Will We Eat?: The Search for Healthy Local Food" tells the story of the growing failure of the industrial food system and how a grassroots coalition of small farmers and consumers is inventing a healthy, humane, homegrown alternative. Filmed in Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, "What Will We Eat?" features John Ikerd, Fred Kirschenmann, Michael Hamm and John Biernbaum of MSU plus the voices of local West Michigan farmers and consumers working to build a new, revolutionary food system. www.chrisbedfordfilms.com
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Story of Stuff
6:30 – 7:00 pm
Director: Annie Leonard, 20 minutes
 From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
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Buyer be Fair
7:00 – 8:00 pm
Director: John de Graaf, 60 minutes
 The one-hour documentary "buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification" takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Canada to explore how consumers and businesses can use the market to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through product labeling, with a focus on fair trade coffee and certified wood products. Produced by the Seattle-based team of John de Graaf and Hana Jindrova ("Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger") and narrated by NPR's Scott Simon. www.buyerbefair.org
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Veggie Van Voyage
8:30-9:00 pm
Director: Joshua Tickell, 15 minutes
 In Joshua Tickell's first independent film he shows you what life on the road in "the Veggie Van" is like. We follow Joshua on a cross-country venture from Sarasota, FL through Texas, the northeast US, across the Midwest, into Colorado and Nevada and up California from Los Angeles to San Francisco. We watch Josh get a ticket, talk to Jim Hightower and be interviewed by the Today Show. We see America through the windows of the only van ever to do a 2-year long adventure across the USA on biodiesel fuel made from used French fry oil.
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French Fries to Go
Director: Charris Ford, 15 minutes
Charris Ford has been operating his own 100% bio-diesel powered truck for the past three years and is one of the original members the Grassolean biodiesel making cooperative near Telluride Colorado. Charris was the subject of the much-celebrated film about biodiesel called "French Fries to Go". He has played a significant role in implementing the use of Biodiesel in Telluride's public bus system. His personal dream is to start a chain of solar powered "Grassolean Stations" around the country, that provide alternative fuel and healthy food to the nations growing population of forward thinking individuals.
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