Wild and Scenic Film Festival

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Fifth Annual River Alliance

Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 7 PM

Tickets
$10 in advance
$13 at the door
$25 films and after party (free drink ticket, food and membership to the River Alliance)

Purchase Tickets Online: www.barrymorelive.com (http://barrymorelive.com/_wildandscenic.htm)

Experience the highs, lows, challenges and triumphs of people's relationship with the environment depicted in this unique line up of films. From stunning scenery to creative animation, this collection of movies is guaranteed to inspire and provoke.The Wild & Scenic Film Festival (http://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/) was started by the Californian watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in 2003. The festival's namesake is in celebration of SYRCL's landmark victory to receive "Wild & Scenic" status for 39 miles of the South Yuba River in 1999. Each year SYRCL partners with conservation organizations around the US to put the films on tour.

2012 Wild and Scenic Film Program

A Liter of Light (2 min)http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/d/d/0/event_88608592.jpeg

The film documents a foundation’s project to light up a poor neighborhood through the efforts of a local man who works for them. He becomes a beacon of hope to his community when he installs hundreds of solar-powered light bulbs in his neighbor’s houses. The clever device is made from old plastic soda bottles filled with water and bleach. Many of the homeowners can barely afford electricity and because their houses stand so close to each other, they don’t really get much daylight. With a little bleach, water and good will, their days are now much, much brighter.

Marion Stoddart: The Work of 1000 (30 min)
This ishttp://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/2/a/event_88608682.jpeg the parallel journey of two characters: one a young woman discouraged at her future as a suburban housewife, the other a river — one beautiful and teeming with wildlife — now a hopeless, toxic sludge pit. Chronicling an important episode in U.S. environmental history, this inspirational story examines the human side of acclaimed environmental pioneer Marion Stoddart who proved that with vision and commitment, an "ordinary" person can accomplish extraordinary things.

Deep Down's People Power Series: Mountain Rootshttp://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/a/2/event_88608802.jpeg (6 min)

Carol Judy, who lives deep in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, has a very special connection to the mountains. Carol digs ginseng, goldenseal, and other medicinal roots from special spots in the mountains that she knows and loves. Now, due to mountaintop removal coal mining, her ancestral mountains are threatened.

eelwaterrock*manhttp://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/f/0/6/event_88608902.jpeg (6 min)

A short documentary vignette celebrating nature's cycles, contentedness, and the last man on the east coast who still fishes for eels using an ancient stone weir. Narrated by artist and author, James Prosek.

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Seasons: Winter (4 min) - Brian Ward discovers an unexpected and new-found love for water in its frozen and expanded form.

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Chasing Water (18 min)

Follow the Colorado River, source to sea, with photographer Pete McBride who takes an intimate look at the watershed as he attempts to follow the irrigation water that sustains his family's Colorado ranch, down river to the sea. Traversing 1500 miles and draining seven states, the Colorado River supports over 30 million people across the southwest. It is not the longest or largest U.S. river, but it is one of the most loved and litigated in the world.

One Plastic Beach (8 min)

Richard Langhttp://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/1/0/4/event_88609412.jpeg and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.

Wolf & The Medallion (20 min)http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/2/4/e/event_88609742.jpeg

Journeying to an unexplored granite canyon on the border of China and Mongolia, Collins finds not only adventure with friends and the local nomads, but a moment of reflection. From that moment comes a letter home to his four year old son. This letter becomes the script for a film, as we see an intimate portrait of the father/son relationship, and life lived running from complacency.