Thursday, February 26

6:30 pm Doors Open

7pm Films Begin

Buskirk Chumley Theatre

Bloomington, IN

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Join us as the largest environmental film festival in the United States comes to Bloomington for the first time!

The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is unique among film festivals around the world because it INSPIRES and MOTIVATES you to do something wonderful for your own community and the world. This is a film festival for people making changes every day.

This festival is FOR active people engaging in their world and produced BY activists. At the festival, you'll LEARN new ideas from a selection of challenging and inspiring films about people just like you and places just like Southern Indiana. You'll EXPERIENCE beautiful places around the world and FIND people accomplishing amazing things. You'll EXPLORE the issues and movements vital to our world today. And you'll CELEBRATE the natural and wild world we share.

Trailer: HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION

Trailer: DIVISION STREET

Trailer: SAND DANCER

Program for the evening:

Sand Dancer – 10 min.
Valerie Reid
Peter Donnelly lives at the beach in Brighton, New Zealand. Hundreds of people are drawn from all over the world to watch him create vast arts works. He does not use any plotting tools or visual aids. Beautiful as his art is, it cannot last ... like a Buddhist mandala, his masterpieces vanish in an instant, as soon as the tide starts to wash them away. Best Doc, Foursite FF(NZ, 2006, 10:56min) www.forcefivefilms.co.uk
SPEAKERS: Andy Mahler (MC), Rhonda Baird (Director), Mayor Kruzan, Scott Russell Sanders
All Points South – 6 min.
Will Henry
Trees make pulp and it's not funny. Pulp makes paper and paper makes money. "All Points South" is a trailer for a pending feature documentary film about the environmental threats posed by the pulp manufacturing industry in Chile, and the efforts of surfers and fishermen to find a viable solution to them. www.savethewaves.org

Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars – 32 min.
2009 Wild & Scenic Jury Award
Mat Hames, Cara Carney
In 2006, Governor Rick Perry of Texas fast-tracked an initiative that would give a private enterprise, TXU, authority to produce 11 new coal plants, all using antiquated technology that would lead to disastrous results in terms of air quality. But a coalition of mayors statewide worked tirelessly to commence a battle for clean air. The movement was bipartisan, and included Republican representatives, ranchers, farmers, and ordinary people. (US, 2007, 32min) www.fightinggoliathfilm.com
Burning the Future: Coal in America – 20 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, 20min) www.burningthefuture.com
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, 12min) www.freedomgardens.org
Litterball – 1 min.
Josh Murphy
A short film that illustrates the power of vision.  If we all wore rose colored glasses, our positive outlook could change the world. Solutions are as easy as changing perspective. (US, 2008, 1min) www.upproductions.com
INTERMISSION: Raffle
Division Street – 53 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, 63min) www.divisionstreetmovie.com, www.transalt.org

Global Focus -- Mexico - Jesús León Santos: In Oaxaca, where unsustainable land-use practices have made it one of the world's most highly-eroded areas, León leads a land renewal program that employs ancient indigenous practices to transform depleted soil into arable land.
Will Parrinello, Tom Dusenbery, John Antonelli
Grassroots environmental heroes too often go unrecognized. Yet their efforts to protect the world’s natural resources are increasingly critical to the well-being of the planet we all share. Thus, in 1990 San Francisco civic leaders and philanthropists Richard N. Goldman and his late wife, Rhoda H. Goldman created the Goldman Environmental Prize. The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them. Through recognizing these individual leaders, the Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the natural world.  www.goldmanprize.org