Every so frequently a film follows on that rocks my world – literally. In 2006, Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth opened up my eyes to simply how grievous a situation we are facing on Earth (living in Canada for certain served save my rose-colored glasses on for much too foresighted!)
Candidly, I was amazed at the power of the movie to provoke such a reaction in me - and even better, an action! Indeed when I got a line that Vancouver was becoming our very ain Environmental Film Festival , I was tickled…and a little neural. What life-castrating messages am I moving to read home this time?
Seing Change: Sustainable + Environmental Film Festival is Vancouver’s very first film festival devoted to sinewy environmental messages. Running from Thursday, May 8 – Sunday, May 11 at The Ridge Theatre, the festival will showcase some of the world’s very betterest films as good as some piquant local and outside speakers.
The four days of the festival are separated smartly into themes:
May 8th: Opening up Night with an evening screening of Flow: For Love of Water with guest speaker, Ray Zahab (former chain-smoker became radical-marathoner and sweet water advocate) at 7:00pm. Stay for the After Party with completing food & beverages!
May 9th: Food Friday with We Bung the World and speaker Christine Beaudoins (Dull Food Vancouver ) at 11:00am; The Fight For Admittedly Raising and Jason Boyce (Local Food For the first time) at 2:00pm; Succeeding of Food and Josh Brandon (Greenpeace ) at 4:30pm; Tableland , Fridays at the Farm and Craig Noble (Producer/Director, Tableland) at 7:15pm; King Corn and Curt Ellis (Star of King Corn) at 9:45pm and a limited midnight screening of Baraka.
May 10th: Sustainability Saturday with Everything’s Cool and Naomi Devine (Premier of BC’s Climate Action Team ) at 10:00am; Jerking the Lights Off, Kilowatt Ours , Gimme Green and speakers Jaclyn A. Smith (Writer/Producer/Director/Star, Jerking the Lights Off) and Jeff Barrie (Director, Kilowatt Ours) at 12:00pm; The Greening of Southie and speakers Ian Cheney (Director, Greening of Southie) and Helen Goodland (Executive Director, Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre ) at 2:30pm; Recycled Life and Story of Stuff with Kyla Epstein (CoDev ) at 5:00pm; Directing Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai with Daphne Nederhorst (SAWA Global ) at 7:15pm; Mine Your Ain Business at 9:45pm and a particular midnight madness of Chinatown.
May 11th: Family Day with Flow: For Love of Water at 10:00am; Help I’m a Fish with a speaker from the Georgia Straight Alliance at 12:00pm; Green Kids Unrecorded Theatre at 3:00pm; Fern Gully with a speaker from the Stanley Park Ecology Society at 4:30pm.
Closing down Night (May 11th) with Saving Luna and directors Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit at 7:15pm. Stay for the After Party and feed, drink and be mirthful!
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