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911 Media Arts Center and the
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network present:
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GREEN FILM SERIES
Every First Friday of the Month, 7:30pm
Tickets: $5
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
May 1-4 at Johnson Hall, University of Washington
The Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network screens Green Films as one of 911's reoccurring events in our Media Arts Theater. This month, Hazel Wolf presents the 10th annual Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival on May 1-4 at Johnson Hall on the University of Washington campus. The festival will screen 57 films and shorts and will be joined by notable filmmakers and speakers.
The festival starts Thursday evening as we welcome Seth Warren and his film "Oil+Water," an exuberant, biofuels-only road trip from Alaska to Argentina punctuated by jaw-dropping, whitewater kayaking. Friday evening we welcome filmmaker Judith Helfand for a screening of "Everything's Cool." Capping off a full day of films on Saturday is a presentation by Alex Steffen of Worldchanging and a screening of "Renewal." Sunday's program includes "Woven Way" and a panel about uranium mining on the Navajo and Spokane Indian Reservations and closes with the award-winning "When Clouds Clear."
The festival also includes family-friendly sessions and filmmaking workshops. These are only a few highlights -- for the full schedule, visit the Hazel Wolf site.
Tickets available now though at their tickets page and Brown Paper Tickets and in person at Seattle Audubon's Nature Shop, 8050 35th Ave NE (Open 10-5, Monday through Saturday).
PAST EVENTS
Fri, Dec 1, 7:30pm: Transforming City Spaces and Landscapes
A Lot In Common (Rick Bacigalupi, 2003, 57min)
Neighbors turn a vacant BART lot into a blooming community garden. Landscape architect/ psychologist Karl Linn inspires the creation of this garden and encourages people to reclaim the commons to build community. A Lot In Common while telling this modern day story gives us a historical look at the concept of the Commons and the beginning of lawns as well as a look at the life of visionary landscape architect, Karl Linn.
Pomegranate Center (Erin Katz, Celia Beasley, & 911 Media Arts Center, 2004, 10min)
This film highlights the mission and methods of the Pomegranate Center, a non-profit community design and development organization started by artist and community organizer, Milenko Matonovic. The Pomegranate Center is dedicated to helping communities create vibrant gathering spaces and revitalize community life. The film features inspirational projects and the practical and educational aspect of developing them.
Panel Discussion:
Milenko Matanovic, Executive Director of the Pomegranate Center, www.pomegranate.org
Brice Maryman, Co-director of Open Space Seattle 2100, www.open2100.org
Representative from City Repair Seattle, www.cityrepair.info
Fri, Nov 3, 7:30pm: Cuba: A Story of Sustainability
Greening of Cuba (Food First & The Video Project, Director Marilyn Brochhardt, 1996, 38min)
Witness an entire nation transforming its agriculture using organic techniques. The Greening of Cuba profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported machinery and agro-chemicals. When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80% of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half of its petroleum - the mainstays of its highly industrialized agriculture.
The Power of Community (The Community Solutions, Director Faith Morgan, 2006, 58min)
The just released film, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, documents Cuba’s emergency transition to local organic agriculture, renewable energy, and large-scale mass transit. The transition occurred following the Soviet collapse in 1990, when their massive subsidies of imported oil and food to Cuba were halted.
The film visits urban gardens and organic farms, explains the relationship between food and fossil fuels, and shows how a society can change from an industrialized, global focus to a local, community-based one. It is a rare view into this island culture, using firsthand reporting that focuses on what Cubans learned about adapting to living with less.
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