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In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed since farmers once populated their family histories. A thoughtful and often funny essay on community, the South and sustainability, EATING ALABAMA is a story about why food matters.
EATING ALABAMA
Andrew Beck Grace, 2012, USA, 62 min.
www.eatingalabama.com
SCREENINGS:
Nov 11 @ 2:45 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 12 @ 7:15 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed since farmers once populated their family histories. A thoughtful and often funny essay on community, the South and sustainability, EATING ALABAMA is a story about why food matters.
EATING ALABAMA
Andrew Beck Grace, 2012, USA, 62 min.
www.eatingalabama.com
SCREENINGS:
Nov 11 @ 2:45 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 12 @ 7:15 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
Celebrate the last ITVS Community Cinema screening of the year with a free screening of SOLAR MAMAS, an inspiring film about women in the most challenging of circumstances upturning the status quo and using education to transform their lives and communities.
Join us after the screening for a free Wine Reception hosted by SF Environment across the street at the Eco-Center Gallery on 11 Grove St. We’ll walk over together at 7:45pm.
(It’s free and proof of film attendance is required for entry)
RSVP at solarmamas.eventbrite.com
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SOLAR MAMAS
Jehane Noujaim, Mona Eldaief, USA/Denmark/Egypt, 2012, 75 mins
www.itvs.org/films/solar-mamas
Rafea, 30 years old with four children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife, is a Bedouin woman living in a small Jordanian village. She leaves her village for the first time to go to the Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer.
The Barefoot College in India was founded by Bunker Roy to provide knowledge and training to the rural poor to empower them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. The solar course at Barefoot College has women from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Columbia, and Guatemala.
Share in her story, and engage a panel of Bay Area leaders in a discussion about our community, the education of our children, the future of our environment, and the empowerment of women.
Featuring a community discussion led by Bay Area leaders:
~ Maya Finlay, Community Technology Facilitator, The Women’s Building
~ Sally Fox, UN Women, San Francisco Chapter
~ Konda Mason, CEO, Hub Oakland
~ Zeina Zaatari Arab Resource and Organizing Center
~ Moderated by Jonathan Remple, National Engagement Coordinator, ITVS
Once upon a time, there was a documentary called BANANAS!* (SFGFF 2011) about conditions at a Dole-owned banana plantation in Nicaragua. But this is not that movie. This movie is about what happened after Dole decided it was going to squash BANANAS!* –by any means necessary. What follows is a story that’s both incredibly thrilling and deeply inspiring, as filmmaker Fredrik Gertten makes the decision to fight the Dole company… and document the whole thing, of course.
BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*
Fredrik Gertten, 2012, Sweden, 88 min.
www.bigboysgonebananas.com
SCREENINGS:
Nov 15 @ 9:30 pm – Shattuck Cinema, Berkeley
Nov 17 @ 9:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 20 @ 9:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
The three Italian gems brought to DocFest by guest curator Mariana Melani are: THE CHALLENGE OF VENICE that reveals plans to save the world’s most glamorous, magical, sinking city; VINYLMANIA about Italy’s love of old-school record albums; and ONE DAY’S REMINDER, an experimental collage of images of a little town after all of its tourists leave for the season.
THE CHALLENGE OF VENICE : Is Venice sinking? Global warming is causing an increase in the sea level and, in the meantime, the land in the lagoon is subsiding. Floods cause both immediate and long-term harm: a pair of Wellington boots may not be sufficient to move on foot and boats may not manage to pass under bridges. Most Venetians are placing their hopes on the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, an experimental project in the final stages of construction.
THE CHALLENGE OF VENICE
Michele Barca, Itlay, 76 min.
www.cinemaitaliano.info/lasfidadivenezia
SCREENINGS:
Nov 17 @ 2:45 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 18 @ 12:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
Once upon a time, there was a documentary called BANANAS!* (SFGFF 2011) about conditions at a Dole-owned banana plantation in Nicaragua. But this is not that movie. This movie is about what happened after Dole decided it was going to squash BANANAS!* –by any means necessary. What follows is a story that’s both incredibly thrilling and deeply inspiring, as filmmaker Fredrik Gertten makes the decision to fight the Dole company… and document the whole thing, of course.
BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*
Fredrik Gertten, 2012, Sweden, 88 min.
www.bigboysgonebananas.com
SCREENINGS:
Nov 15 @ 9:30 pm – Shattuck Cinema, Berkeley
Nov 17 @ 9:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 20 @ 9:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
The three Italian gems brought to DocFest by guest curator Mariana Melani are: THE CHALLENGE OF VENICE that reveals plans to save the world’s most glamorous, magical, sinking city; VINYLMANIA about Italy’s love of old-school record albums; and ONE DAY’S REMINDER, an experimental collage of images of a little town after all of its tourists leave for the season.
THE CHALLENGE OF VENICE : Is Venice sinking? Global warming is causing an increase in the sea level and, in the meantime, the land in the lagoon is subsiding. Floods cause both immediate and long-term harm: a pair of Wellington boots may not be sufficient to move on foot and boats may not manage to pass under bridges. Most Venetians are placing their hopes on the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, an experimental project in the final stages of construction.
THE CHALLENGE OF VENICE
Michele Barca, Itlay, 76 min.
www.cinemaitaliano.info/lasfidadivenezia
SCREENINGS:
Nov 17 @ 2:45 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 18 @ 12:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
Once upon a time, there was a documentary called BANANAS!* (SFGFF 2011) about conditions at a Dole-owned banana plantation in Nicaragua. But this is not that movie. This movie is about what happened after Dole decided it was going to squash BANANAS!* –by any means necessary. What follows is a story that’s both incredibly thrilling and deeply inspiring, as filmmaker Fredrik Gertten makes the decision to fight the Dole company… and document the whole thing, of course.
BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*
Fredrik Gertten, 2012, Sweden, 88 min.
www.bigboysgonebananas.com
SCREENINGS:
Nov 15 @ 9:30 pm – Shattuck Cinema, Berkeley
Nov 17 @ 9:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
Nov 20 @ 9:30 pm – Roxie Theater, SF
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
sfindie.com
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of SF Documentary Festival, November 8-21, 2012.
CHASING ICE is the story of acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog‘s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
Within months of his first trip to Iceland, Balog conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. Follow Balog as he begins deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. CHASING ICE depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet. Directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by DePre Pesman (THE COVE).
CHASING ICE opens on November 23 at Bay Area Landmark Theatres. chasingice.com
Early Bird Film Submission deadline for the 3rd San Francisco Green Film Festival, to take place May 30-June 5, 2013.
Full information at sfgreenfilmfest.org/call-for-entries/
Meet other green startups and eco entrepreneurs, media, and local green business owners
SOCIALLY GREEN is the Meetup group of GreenStreetSF.org.
GreenStreetSF.org is a professional networking group for anyone from ecologically-minded consumers to green entrepreneurs and startups who want to connect with other professionals and innovators in the burgeoning green industry landscape. Our mission is to promote education and economic development for green initiatives in fashion, design and technology and awareness about better living through sustainable practice and greener lifestyle choices.
Presentations by:
SF Green Film Festival
Green Street SF
Suggested donation: $10
Final Film Submission deadline for the 3rd San Francisco Green Film Festival, to take place May 30-June 5, 2013.
Full information at sfgreenfilmfest.org/call-for-entries/
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