Event: Eco Film Festival in Beverly, MA
by Catherine LaineApril 1st, 2008
Eco Film Festival
Date: April 5th and 6th
Location: Multiple locations in Beverly, MA
Tickets: http://www.ecofilmfestivalma.eventbrite.com/
The nine films:
1. A Crude Awakening: the Oil Crash
Duration: 1 min 54sec
‘A Crude Awakening — The Oil Crash’ examines the state of the world’s dwindling oil resources. It finds that we’re running out of fossil fuels much sooner than anticipated. Industry leaders, scientists and some politicians tell us about the dire consequences the world is facing as it moves from cheap abundant energy supply to scarce, hard to get and expensive energy.
1st Trailer
1st 3 minutes of the film
2. Kilowatt Ours
Duration: 5min 15 secs
3. King Corn
Duration: 2 min 6sec
KING CORN tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, IanCheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, moveto the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help offriendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-ubiquitous grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to followtheir pile of corn into the food system, what they questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
4. The Unforeseen
Duration: 2min 41sec
An ambitious west Texas farm boy with grandiose plans tires of living at the mercy of nature and sets out to find a life with more control. He heads to Austin where he becomes a real estate developer and skillfully capitalizes on the growth of this 1970s boomtown. At the peak of his powers, he transforms 4,000 acres of pristine Hill Country into one of the state’s largest and fastest selling subdivisions. When the development threatens a local treasure, a fragile limestone aquifer and a naturally spring-fed swimming hole, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see in miniature a struggle that today plays out in communities across the country.
5. Everything’s Cool
Duration: 3min 43sec
The award-winning co-directors and co-producers of Blue Vinyl, Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand take us into the zeitgeist of global warming messaging, from the pioneers and problem solvers who are staying up nights trying keep this world a cool place, to the industry-funded naysayers struggling to keep doubt alive!
A must see for anyone who is wondering whether to change their light bulbs or how to vote.
6. Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home
Duration: 1min 44sec
7. The View and the Vision
Duration: 27min 44sec
As the Cape wind project is inching closer towards approval, we should also look towards other projects for inspiration. The winds of change have been blowing in Denmark for generations and presently supply 25% of their energy needs through clean technologies. Watch this short documentary of local filmmaker, Liz Argo’s, visit to Denmark, to get a sense of how communities can thrive from local power. The majesty of the wind made visible is the story of the View and the Vision.
8. Who Killed the Electric Car?
Duration: 2min 14sec
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.
9. An Inconvenient Truth
Duration: 2min 29sec
Schedule:
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Wylie Conference Center located on Endicott College Campus next to Tupper Manor, 295 Hale Street, Beverly
9:30 am - 4:00 pm: Screening of nine environmental films; Green Lounge featuring products, services, and organizations that support our environment; Children’s films and activities.
6:30 pm Gala Benefit: Gala movie screening of Kilowatt Ours followed by Gala Benefit Party with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and dancing.
Sunday, April 6, 2008: Downtown Beverly
10:00 am: Guided Tour of Solar Now, solar and wind energy site in Greenergy Park, located at 100 Sohier Road, adjacent to Beverly High School.
11:00 am - 5:00 pm: Screening of environmental films at Montserrat College of Art, 23 Essex Street,Beverly
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Screening of children’s films at Beverly Public Library, 32 Essex Street.
11:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch featuring local, seasonal and organic foods at local downtown Beverly restaurants.
5:00 - 7:00 pm: Festival Closing Art and Wine Reception to view the exhibit It’s Getting Hot in Here, Montserrat College of Art, 23 Essex Street, Beverly.
