The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour
Friday, November 6, 2009
Reception: 6 pm | Film Fest: 7 pm | Q&A: 10 pm

The evening starts with a reception where you can meet representatives from local environmental groups and enjoy food, $3 beer and wine bar featuring Great Lakes Brewery beers and organic wines, and entertainment. Then enjoy a screening of The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour, seven environmental films helping to raise awareness of the natural world and our role in it. Join David Beach, director of the Museum's GreenCityBlueLake Institute, for a Q&A session after the films. Hosted by the Nature League.

Tickets: 
Please call the Museum Box Office at (216) 231-1177 or register online.
Non-members: $15; Museum members: $10; High school students: $5 
Tickets will not be mailed; there will be a guest list at the door.
Bioneers Cleveland attendees: $12 with conference registration. (Includes 1 drink ticket.) Please register here.

Film Selections

I Love Trash – 7:30 min.
David Brown
Two rules: nothing purchased for three months; and living off of only the things, clothing, and food found in the trash. Their dumpster diving experiment reveals much about our society. (US, 2008, 7:30min) www.createspace.com/255290

Homegrown Revolution – 15:44 min.
Jules Dervaes
In the midst of a densely urban setting in downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking root. For over twenty years, the Dervaes family have transformed their home into an urban homestead. As a family for this new paradigm, they harvest nearly 3 tons of organic food from their 1/10 acre garden while incorporating many back-to-basics practices, as well as solar energy and biodiesel. (US, 2007, 15:44min) www.freedomgardens.org

The Truth About Aerial Hunting of Wolves – 11:37 min.
Defenders of Wildlife
Alaska is truly our nation’s last frontier. It is also the last place in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill wolves and other animals. More than 30 years ago, Congress put an end to aerial hunting. But Alaska is exploiting a loophole in federal law to resume the practice. SOME DISTURBING FOOTAGE. (11:37min) www.defenders.org

I Met the Walrus – 5:15 min.
2009 Wild & Scenic Honorable Mention
Josh Raskin, Jerry Levitan
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative romancing Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multi-pronged animation. (Canada, 2007, 5:15min) www.imetthewalrus.com

Burning the Future: Coal in America – 30 min.
David Novack, Alexis Zoullas
Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, activists in West Virginia watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction.  Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their improbable fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life. Montana CINE Best of Fest (US, 2007, 25min) www.burningthefuture.com

STREETFILMS: Vélib  - 8:25 min.
Paris’ hugely successful bike share program, Vélib, effectively qualifies the bicycle as the healthiest, greenest and most fun mode of public transportation. www.streetfilms.org

Division Street – 49 minutes
Eric Bandick
This is not your father’s road trip. Roads and cars have fragmented wild landscapes, ushered in urban sprawl, and challenged some of the bedrock values we once took for granted.  But as the transportation crisis appears to be spiraling out of control, a new generation of ecologists, engineers, city-planners, and everyday citizens are transforming the future of the American road. From pristine roadless areas to concrete jungles, follow filmmaker Eric as he tours North America, dodging Yellowstone’s grizzlies and Miami’s taxicabs, and highlighting sustainable road projects and wildlife corridors for the 21st century. (US/CANADA, 2008,  49min) www.divisionstreetmovie.com, www.transalt.org

Sponsored by:

Marla and Joseph Shafran Foundation