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Amazon Gold
Film Screening & DiscussionSaturday, March 8, 2014 - 10:00-11:30am/Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake Street, Oak Park/Tickets
Directed By - Sarah Dupont/2012/53 minutes
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, Amazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into the Amazon rainforest. Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster, two war journalists led by a Peruvian biologist uncover the savage unraveling of pristine rainforest. They bear witness to the apocalyptic destruction in the pursuit of illegally mined gold with consequences on a global scale. An animated Agouti springs to life to tell the story of his ecosystem. Left in the wake of surreal images of once extraordinary beauty turned into hellish wasteland, Amazon Gold reaffirms the right of the rainforest to exist as a repository of priceless biodiversity.
For more information on the film, please visit the official documentary website.
Blackfish
Film Screening & DiscussionSaturday, March 8, 2014 - 2:30-4:45pm/Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake Street, Oak Park /Tickets
Directed By - Gabriela Cowperthwaite/2013/90 minutes/Rated PG-13
Many of us have experienced the excitement and awe of watching 8,000 pound orcas, or "killer whales," soar out of the water and fly through the air at sea parks, as if in perfect harmony with their trainers. Yet, in our contemporary lore this mighty black and white mammal is like a two-faced Janus-beloved as a majestic, friendly giant yet infamous for its capacity to kill viciously. Blackfish unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who-unlike any orca in the wild-has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong?
For more information on the film, please visit the official documentary website.
Comfort Zone
Film Screening & Discussion w/FilmmakersSaturday, March 8, 2014 - 12:00-2:15pm/Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake Street, Oak Park/Tickets
Directed By - Dave Danesh, Sean Donnelly, and Kate Kressmann-Kehoe/2013/67 minutes
What does climate change mean in a place where it's not an obvious threat? Where sea level rise isn't a factor, and frankly, where people might like it to be a little warmer? Three filmmakers set out to answer those questions for Upstate New York. The answers were not so simple.
Filmmakers Dave Danesh and Sean Donnelly will attend. A light lunch will precede the screening at noon.
Comfort Zone brings the global issue of climate change to a local and personal level. It's the story of what happens when we try to translate this global problem to our individual lives. What is at stake? What can I do about it? What if dealing with this problem asks things of me that I'm not yet ready to give? The climate is already changing. Now what about us?
For more information on the film, please visit the official documentary website.
The Curious Garden
Film Screening & DiscussionSunday, March 9, 2014 – 3-4:15pm/The Brown Cow Ice Cream Parlor 7347 Madison St, Forest Park, IL/Tickets, SORRY, SOLD OUT
Family-friendly! Children ages 3-11+
Directed By – Weston Woods & Soup Nuts/Based on the award-winning book by Peter Brown/2010/10.5 minutes
One boy's quest for a greener world ... one garden at a time. A little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. The Curious Garden is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations. Narrated by Katherine Kellgren, and music by David Mansfield.
A resource table by the Oak Park Conservatory will promote upcoming programming, including free Saturday drop-in activities. Each child can take home a free packet of watermelon or sunflower seeds.
For more information on the film, please visit the official documentary website.
Do The Math - The Movie
Film Screening & DiscussionSaturday March 8, 2014 - 7-9:15pm/First United Church 848 Lake St, Oak Park/Tickets
Directed By - Kelly Nyles and Jared P. Scott/2013/44 minutes
It’s simple math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Burning the fossil fuel that corporations now have in their reserves would result in emitting 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide – five times the safe amount
This film will be shown with The Soil Solution.
Fossil fuel companies are planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them. In November 2012, Bill McKibben and 350.org hit the road to build a movement strong enough to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis. The Do the Math Tour was a massive success, with sold out shows in every corner of the country.
The USA tour is now over, but the campaign it launched is just getting started and the tour has gone global. The Do The Math movie is a 42-minute documentary film about the rising movement to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and challenge the fossil fuel industry. For more information on the film, please visit the official documentary website
The Economics of Happiness
Film Screening & DiscussionSaturday, March 8, 2014 - 1-2:45pm/Ascension Catholic School - Pine Room, 601 Van Buren Street, Oak Park/Tickets
Directed By - Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick/2011/69 minutes
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures at work. The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, an unholy alliance of governments and big business continues to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people all over the world are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.
For more information on the film, please visit the official documentary website.