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12pm to 8:30pm at the Lyric Cinema Cafe 300 East Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins
The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association presents its 3rd annual Environmental Film Festival on March 13th, featuring local and national short films on some of today's most timely topics of sustainable food, global warming, consumption, environmental & social responsibility and more. This year's festival will be held at the Lyric Cinema Café in downtown Fort Collins.
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.
Entrance: $5 donation, stay as long as you like. Seating is not reserved and is available on first-come, first-served bases, approximately 80 seats available. Beverages, beer, wine and snacks will be available for purchase.
Film Schedule: (Schedule is subject to change, please check back regularly)
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Green Eco-Machine (10min)
12:00 PM - Director: Kristin Alexander
Pioneer in the field of ecological design, Dr. Todd has developed the Eco- Machine, and a design to reforest Appalachia. The film explores a new partnership with nature, and the stories behind the people who will benefit from his vision. The eco-machine is a new toolbox that reconnects humans with the natural world. The eco-machine transforms waste, and repairs damage to the environment. The film explores a pioneer in the emerging field of ecological design and engineering, and the stories behind the people benefiting from his vision to create a new partnership with nature. www.MiddleWayMedia.com
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A Sea Change (83 min)
12:15 PM - Director: Barbara Ettinger
Imagine a world without fish. It’s a terrifying idea, and worst of all, it’s happening right now. A Sea Change follows retired history teacher and grandfather Sven Huseby on his quest to discover what is happening to the world’s oceans. His journey takes him to Alaska, California, Washington, and Norway as he uncovers a worldwide crisis that most people are unaware of. Speaking with oceanographers, marine biologists, climatologists, and artists, Sven discovers that global warming is only half the story of the environmental catastrophe that is unfolding. www.aseachange.net
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Hooked on Growth - trailer (5 min)
2:00 PM – Director: Dave Gardner
Trailer for an upcoming documentary examining the sustainability of our worship of growth everlasting. One man takes on City Hall, Wall Street, The Pope, and modern society as he questions our most fundamental beliefs about prosperity. Filmmaker Dave Gardner will be available for questions and feedback about his upcoming film.
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The Story of Cap & Trade (10min)
2:05 PM - Director: Annie Leonard
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
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Used Matters (7 min)
2:15 PM - Director: Matt Harnack
Winner of the Best Environmental Film Category at the 2009 Marin County Fair. We rarely think about what happens to the stuff that we use and then throw away. Where does it go? Or better yet how can it be used again? Used Matters, juxtaposes an artist, activist, and antiques storeowner all motivated by different reasons to reuse. See how all of these different individuals have found ways to reuse and get you inspired to start reusing too.
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210 Million (20 min)
2:25 PM – Director: Shari Blackman & Dan Messineo
210 Million is a film about waste, and a few people who don’t mind getting dirty as they take things into their own hands—the things that other people throw away. These few Fort Collins, Colorado residents are not homeless, nor are they among the working poor. In fact, two are college students, one has Bachelor’s Degrees in Geology and Electrical Engineering, and one is a published author with a PhD in Literature from Purdue. But they have another thing in common: they hate waste.
Watch these new millennium dumpster divers as they hit up the best spots for office supplies, food, and clothing. Hear them talk about why and how they do it. Learn about the waste habits of the number one trash producing country in the world in this short form documentary by filmmakers Shari Blackman and Dan Messineo of Fort Collins. A joint production of Be Reel Pictures and Mayeda Studios. Filmmakers and special guest Lara Pritchett will be available for questions and feedback about their work.
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Eat Local – Grow Local (11 min)
3:00 PM – Director: Ralf Kacke Berndorff
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Fresh – New thinking about what we’re eating (72 min)
3:15 PM- Director: Faith Morgan
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy. www.freshthemovie.com
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The Great Squeeze (70 min)
4:45 PM – Director: Chris Fauchere
The Great Squeeze picks up where the documentary Energy Crossroads left off. Our dependence on cheap and abundant fossil fuels has been feeding the engine of our economic system for the past 200 years. Although it has lifted modern civilizations to new heights, prosperity has come at a tremendous price. We are now at a point where humanity's demands for natural resources far exceed the earth's capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the consumption of these resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so significantly, that a new geological era had to be created. These man-made threats become even more ominous when you look at them together as part of a global trend.
The film then goes back in time and takes us on a journey through history when past civilizations made the same mistake of growing too fast, depleting their natural resources and ultimately collapsing. Instead of the usual band-aid approaches, The Great Squeeze challenges us to learn from history and transition towards a more sustainable economy that values our environment.
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Red Lady: The Battle for Your Mountains (13 min)
6:15 PM – Director: Jeremy Rubingh & the High Country Citizens’ Alliance
In 1977 geologists from the AMAX mining company discovered a deposit of Molybdemun within Mt. Emmons (also known as Red Lady) just two miles from the small town of Crested Butte, Colorado. More than three decades later, the fight to prevent mining from forever changing the character, economy and environment of a classic Colorado ski town rages on... Today, different mining companies continue to pursue a large scale Molybdemen mine on thousands of acres surrounding the town of Crested Butte and its drinking water source. The impacts of such a mine on Mt. Emmons would be severe and permanent. Learn how you can help save Red Lady.
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Fossil Fuel Free Film (20min)
6:30 PM - Director: Matt Harnack
A film powered by 100% renewable energy . . . well almost. Matt Harnack, an aspiring environmental filmmaker, felt that his production process was contributing the very problem he was trying to resolve. Last winter, he set out to make a film without burning any petroleum. That meant no driving, local root veggies, and cold showers, but he was determined to break his addiction to oil. Even though it was hard to imagine life without fossil fuel, it was far worse to think about what could happen if it keeps being burnt recklessly. So, to solve the problem of peak oil and global warming, he did the only thing he knew how to do; He made a movie.
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No Impact Man (93 min)
7:00 PM - Director: Laura Gabbert
“Like Gilligan’s Island, only completely implausible.” That’s how comedian Stephen Colbert summed up the family saga Colin Beavan, aka NO IMPACT MAN. Beavan, a New York City waiter and self-proclaimed liberal, has big plans for this new book. He decides on a grand experiment to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle-an espresso guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer-and their young daughter to be fully on board.
As the family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators, or newspapers, Michelle must contend with caffeine withdrawal, compost worms, not retail, and defending her own dreams, all in the name of supporting her husband’s book project. What ensues is a not only entertaining and funny look at well- intentioned environmentalism, but a touching, poignant take on the nature of contemporary marriage and what it means to pursue your dreams, even if it means driving those around you a little insane.
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