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We had a great January candidates forum at Blue Water Bay – thanks to Shawn Sheppard and Jason Fults, as well to all of you who joined us! And now it’s time for some more fun next week…
Jan. 30 Sponsor Reception: Don Davis will host a reception to thank [...]
Greetings Green Drinkers and Environmental Film Fans!
I hope you’ve enjoyed the autumn and had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday. Although I missed seeing my kids (Portland and Denver are too far away!), I relished the quiet chance to catch up on some work and enjoyed a delicious dinner with friends. I’ve made so many lovely friends [...]
Greetings Green Drinkers and Environmental Film Fans!
I hope you’re enjoying the fall as we are. It’s a nice time to cuddle up with a good movie, eh? I’m enjoying rolling into fall. I just spent a week on the road – an odyssey that took me to Miami for the Society of Environmental Journalists [...]
“Everyone’s doing it — or nearly everyone. According to a recent report, a whopping 91 percent of kids and teens between the ages of two and 17 play video games. That’s an increase of nine percent since 2009, which adds up to over 64 million young gamers!”
Is this what we want for our kids? Let’s [...]
Cinema Verde and Paynes Prairie State Preserve will present a viewing of Play Again, a film about kids whose lives are immersed in technology getting out to the woods. We’ve selected this film as a complement to the local appearances of Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, at and Prairie Creek [...]
Cinema Verde will reward students who complete environmental projects with passes to our environmental film and arts festival.
We invite all Alachua County students to participate in our art, literature, film and conservation projects – contact us if you’re interested in learning more: Contact@verdefest.org. Thanks!
Florida, National and International High School and College students:
Cinema Verde has [...]
The Hippodrome Theatre has gotten into some monkey business, and Nim Chimpsky is the source of it.
Starting today, the documentary film “Project Nim” will screen at the Hippodrome Cinema and run until Thursday. The film, directed by James Marsh, tells the story of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was raised and nurtured like a human [...]
OUR NEXT FILM will be Garbage Warrior, Saturday, Sept. 17, 7 – 9:30 p.m. at Paynes Prairie Visitor’s Center, Paynes Prairie State Preserve. See the trailer here: http://www.garbagewarrior.com/trailer.html
Thanks so much to those of you who came out to see Economics of Happiness with us at Payne’s Prairie State Preserve Visitor Center on August 13. We [...]
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Farmageddon, The Unseen War on American Family Farms
Washington DC: June 17 – 23 West End Cinema Group sales from the theater now, individual tickets available June 14.
Los Angeles, CA: June 24 – 30 Monica 4Plex Santa Monica
New York City, NY: July 8 – 14 Cinema Village, Union Square
Farmageddon tells the story of the corporate/state persistent [...]
Saving the Bay received four regional Emmy awards including for Best Documentary in May, 2010. When the series premiered in two parts on KQED/San Francisco October 8, 2009, it had the single highest rating of any PBS program in the nation the evening of its initial broadcast, with the audience increasing [...]
Cinema Verde Has Arrived!
Our ten-day Environmental Film and Arts Festival has loads of educational fun in store for everyone: 25 films at 10 venues, an all-day EcoFair, EcoArts, Community Conversations and much more! Come enjoy with us! Here are a few special events to look forward to (click here for more):
We will kick off our [...]
Fearing for his children’s health, Mayor Calvin Tillman is leaving behind his government position and getting out of Dodge… or rather, Dish.
Dish, Texas is a town consisting of 200 residents and 60 gas wells. When Tillman’s sons repeatedly woke up in the middle of the night with mysterious nosebleeds, he knew it was time to [...]
TOKYO — Copies of the 2010 Oscar-winning film that depicts the slaughter of dolphins in the Japanese fishing village of Taiji have been delivered free to its residents, compliments of the director.Louie Psihoyos, director of "The Cove," said Monday the film dubbed in Japanese was delivered via regular mail over the weekend to all households, [...]
Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival to release film schedule March 2 at Green Drinks
via Films Announced at Green Drinks March 2! « | Cinema Verde.
UF College of Journalism and Communications
Don’t miss “Our Town,” a special presentation Monday, March 7 at 8 p.m. on WUFT-TV.
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Ahead of Pig Business’s debut screening at the EU Parliament in Brussels, watch highlights from Tracy Worcester’s mammoth investigation into the truth behind cheap pork
Next week the film-maker and campaigner takes Pig Business – her controversial documentary exposing the blight of industrial pig farming – to Brussels to inform politicians, commissioners, councillors and their advisers [...]
Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated film “Gasland” definitely isn’t the first prominent documentary to spark a vigorous counterattack from the corporate interests it seeks to expose….
“Gasland” is a highly compelling grass-roots-level exposé of the explosion of natural gas drilling across the United States since 2005, when a little-noticed clause in Dick Cheney’s energy bill exempted the aggressive [...]
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Chevron Corp. on Tuesday filed a countersuit against trial lawyers and their consultants for what it says was a campaign to rig the Ecuadorean court system in a bid to win billions of dollars in a pollution claim.
The step is the latest in an 18-year-old court battle that Chevron says [...]
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