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 [...]
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 [...]
This groundbreaking film, directed by Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson and Denis Carot, and narrated in English by Glenn Close, is the first of its kind to use only aerial footage to showcase the issue of climate change from a bird’s-eye view. Spanning 54 countries and 120 locations, HOME is a visually stunning, spectacular voyage [...]
A new study from West Virginia University says economic activity linked to drilling created roughly 7,600 jobs and generated $298 million in wages and benefits in West Virginia in 2009, but does the economic and personal gain come at a price?
Residents at the meeting expressed concern over ground water contamination.
Water contamination from a natural gas [...]
Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives.
Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three [...]
How to Boil a Frog focuses on Peak Oil and the attendant problems for civilization, http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/. A movie of the same name is making the rounds, showing at the Mammoth Film Fesitval December 8-12, http://www.mammothfilmfestival.com/news/2010-mammoth-film-festival-official-selections.html.
“How to Boil a Frog is a comedic documentary about Overshoot: too many people using up too little planet much too [...]
TAIJI, Japan — An unprecedented meeting between conservationists and leaders of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in the Oscar-winning film “The Cove” ended in bitter disagreement Tuesday.
Taiji’s hunt each year draws a range of protesters who videotape the slaughter and occasionally scuffle with local fishermen. This season — the first since the Oscar was awarded — [...]
Cinema Verde Fundraiser at the new Urban Flats – Please bring your friends and join us for this opportunity to raise funds for Cinema Verde! From 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 9, Urban Flats (115 SE 1st Avenue) will host a fundraiser for Cinema Verde. All-you-can-eat and drink wine, flatbread and [...]
Hello, Green Drinks Gainesvillians!
Thanks so much to Duane Olsen of Pizza Palace for hosting a great meeting last month – he’s invited us back anytime. Thanks, too, to Mike Amish and Jacob Cravey, who provided an interesting presentation on the Rain Barrels of Hope project that’s helping create housing for earthquake victims in Haiti. New [...]
Cinema verde hosts fundraiser for upcoming film festival
Daniela Abratt, Alligator Contributing Writer
Cinema Verde, a Gainesville environmental film and arts festival, is hosting its first fundraiser tonight for the festival, which will be held from March 18 to March 27.http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_240a4e3a-bed6-11df-a1c5-001cc4c03286.html
via Cinema verde hosts fundraiser for upcoming film festival – Cinema Verde.
Looking for something to do tonight? Check out the trailer below:
Gasland: “Halliburton has developed a way to get more natural gas out of the ground—a hydraulic drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” for short. Energy companies across rural America are attempting to lease property from residents in order to drill for natural gas.
Filmmaker Josh [...]
In Memory of
WESLEY C. SKILES
Memorial Celebration and Service Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at Ginnie Springs
The memorial service will begin at 6:00 pm followed by a celebration of Wes’s life. Ginnie Springs will be open to our guests all afternoon. The celebration will last into the evening. You may want to bring the beverage of [...]
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