Cinema Verde Merges with Green Drinks to Present Film at Gators 4 Cinema
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May 23, 2013
CONTACT: Trish Riley, 352-327-3560, Trish@CinemaVerde.org
Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival merges with Green Drinks to feature environmental films at Gators 4 Cinema in the Oaks Mall Plaza, slated to reopen its doors this month. The first Cinema [...]
Denver, CO – Even though sex and global warming are rarely discussed in the same sentence, much less in the same film, the long ignored truth was recently explored in the award- winning environmental documentary Mother: Caring for 7 Billion. In celebration of Earth Day, the filmmakers of Mother announced the Internet release of the “Director’s Cut” of Mother that [...]
The Conservation Trust for Florida is hosting a screening of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition movie at the Hippodrome Cinema in Gainesville. The first showing will be at 6PM followed by a VIP reception from 7 – 8PM and the second film will start at 8:15PM. General admission tickets are $10. VIP tickets are $25 [...]
by Sally Ince
With eyes fixated on the large screen in front of them viewers saw the good, the bad and the ugly.
Each night for six nights Cinema Verde, an environmental film and arts festival, focused on a specific sustainable topic. The event focused on energy, animals, sustainable business and government, nature, water and even held [...]
This film is a part of the Spring Film Series on sustainability presented by Sustainable Santa Fe. This documentary follows artist Vik Muniz to the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs a group of “catadores”— pickers of recyclable materials. Together Muniz and the catadores [...]
Coming up at Cinema Verde Feb. 13 ….
Never will theatre-goers view a glass of clean water in the same way; never will coal be called “clean” again.
Sitting aside one of the beautiful headwaters in the great Appalachian mountain range, framed by the deciduous forests of life, a former coal operator hauntingly confesses to the enormity [...]
The lineup of the fourth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival, which starts Saturday and runs through Thursday, offers a wide range of feature-length films, documentaries and shorts over the course of its six days.Screenings and events are planned at Jolie, 6 W. University Ave., with a variety of ticket options available including [...]
The fourth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Films & Art Festival kicks off Feb. 9 and continues through Feb. 14. The festival features more than 30 films that hope to inspire individuals to adopt more sustainable lifestyles, said Riley, the event director.
via Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival | Gainesville.com.
Do you remember seeing the film Living Downstream at Cinema Verde 2011? Then you’ll remember Sandra Steingraber…. – tr*
“…The people who come after us are going to be inheriting a planet that’s not suitable for life.
I’ve been moved by some of the writings of an environmental attorney, Joseph Guth, who wrote that a functioning biosphere [...]
Green Drinks and Alachua AudubonWelcome Belize Avian Specialist
Oct. 3 at Bombay Restaurant & Lounge
“Local Effforts Toward Tropical Rainforest Conservation”
The recent re-discovery of wild Harpy Eagles in southern Belize by BFREE, (a Gainesville-based non-profit) has been the catalyst for the development of a dynamic bird conservation program run by BFREE and supported by multiple universities and [...]
Submit your Environmental Films to Cinema Verde 2013!
Deadline for submissions is November 8th, 2012
The deadline to submit films for the Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival is November 18th, 2012. There will be an extension for Withoutabox members until November 18th, 2012. Issues addressed in films may include food, water, waste, energy, chemical contamination, [...]
carbon nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national & energy security and promotes health & a clean environment. The film’s optimism and pragmatism are appealing across the political spectrum. While other good films have been about problems, blame and guilt, carbon nation [...]
Opens Friday, August 17th at the Hippodrome Cinema. The global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. We can manage this problem, but only if we are willing to act now. Last Call at the Oasis is a powerful new documentary that shatters myths behind our most precious resource. Public discussions will be scheduled throughout the run of this film. Check the Hipp website for more information.
Watch Josh Fox’s The Sky is Pink on Rolling Stone:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of the great state of New York, I’d like you to meet Josh Fox. As you may know, Josh, who is 39, wrote and directed a film called Gasland, which I’m sure is at the top of your Netflix queue. In 2010, the [...]
REMINDER: Cardboard, a film by North Carolina high school student Tara-Nicole Azarian, won “Best Young Filmmaker” at Cinema Verde this year and Carbon for Water, also a Cinema Verde 2012 Official Selection, will both be screened at the Civic Media Center as a benefit for the Home Van Pet Care Project, which provides pet food [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
Greetings Green Drinkers and Cinema Verde Fans!
So March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion – a bit skewed from the maxim we employed in my childhood – and now summer is strangely here already. I don’t know why people act so mystified about [...]
Local organizations Gainesville Loves Mountains, Collective Progression, Citizens Climate Lobby, and Cinema Verde are collaborating to present the film The Last Mountain at the Civic Media Center on Monday April 16th, 2012 beginning at 7pm.
http://www.facebook.com/events/208689529239575/.
The film highlights the issue of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, and the event will aim to draw the connection between [...]
The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding presents a free screening of The Interrupters with Special Guest Ameena Matthews, Senior Violence Interrupter, CeaseFire, Chicago.
APRIL 2, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
PK Yonge Performing Arts Center, 1080 SW 11 St., Gainesville, FL.
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence Interrupters” in Chicago who, with bravado, humility and [...]
Food Democracy Now is campaigning for labeling on GMOs:
Today, an estimated 75 to 80% of processed food in the U.S. contains GMOs (genetically modified organism). For the past 15 years, Americans have been denied the basic right to know what’s in our food, despite the fact that more than 50 countries around the world already [...]
The Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival once again presented some real film treasures on the big screen here in Gainesville. No doubt some people might think that movies about the environment must be painful to watch and depressing, and so a person might hesitate to see these movies. True, they ALL remind us or [...]
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