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Here's the schedule for the March 10th Film Festival at the Drexel Gateway.
12:00 - Welcome and Introductions
12:15
THE APPALACHIANS (Mountain Top Removal)
Issues/topic: The section we have selected of this compelling film about
the past, present and future of Appalachia for the Sierra Club Energy Film
Festival is the powerful segment about MTR (mountain-top removal) in the
Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia. (20 minutes)
Learn more: www.sierraclub.org/appalachia
12:45
THE DAY THE WATER DIED
Issues/topic: When on March 29, 1989 the world witnessed the Exxon Valdez
spilling eleven million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound no one
could have imagined that seventeen years later, the people of Alaska would
still be fighting Exxon to make reparations. This is the story of the Alaskans
who have taken on Exxon. (28 minutes):
Learn more:
www.sierraclub.org/tv/episode-exxon.asp
1:25
NOBELITY
Issues/topic: A stunning look at the world's most pressing problems through
the eyes of nine Nobel Laureates, Nobelity follows filmmaker Turk Pipkin's
personal journey to find enlightening answers about the kind of world our
children and grandchildren will know. Filmed across the U.S., and in France,
England, India, and Africa, Nobelity Combines The Insights of nine distinguished
Nobelists with a first-person view of world problems and the children who
are most challenged by them. Our children's future is in your hands. (18
minutes).
Learn more: www.nobelitythemovie.com
1:45
KILOWATT OURS
Issues/topic:Filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal
mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers
solutions to America's energy related problems. (38 minutes)
Learn more: www.kilowattours.org
2:30 - BREAK
2:45
HURRICANES ON THE BRINK
Issues/topic:A short film on the possible link between global warming and
the increase in sea surface temperatures and the increase in number and intensity
of hurricanes. Details the past several hurricane seasons intercut with experts
in climatology and global warming. (40 minutes)
Learn more: www.onthebrink.org/about.html
3:35
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY
Issues/topic:This uplifting film tells the story of how, when the Cuban people
lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990's they survived through cooperation,
conservation and community. (50 minutes)
Learn more: www.communitysolution.org
4:35
THE TRUE COST OF FOOD
Issues/topic: Food issues are heavy. This animated video takes a light approach
to explaining the hidden costs of mass-produced food and about alternatives
that are kinder to the planet. (15 minutes)
Learn more: www.truecostoffood.org
4:55
EARTH TO AMERICA
Issues/topic:This hilarious special celebrates life on Earth by taking aim
at one of our planet's most serious problems: global warming, and features
comedy luminaries such as Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller and Jack
Black, as well as Tom Hanks, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and nearly a dozen others.
(90 minutes)
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