Monday, March 31, 2008
A free environmental film festival on campus this week will usher in Earth Month.
The festival will feature three documentaries and a presentation of Al Gore’s slideshow from “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Films for Action, an independent media outlet from Lawrence, and student groups KU Environs and E.A.R.T.H. are sponsoring the event.
The movies and slideshow will be spread throughout four nights beginning on Monday and ending with a panel discussion and free Local Burger catering for attendees on Thursday.
Margaret Tran, Derby sophomore and vice president of E.A.R.T.H., said the festival took shape whenTree Media Group, a California-based media company, asked if student groups from the University wanted to show its film, “The 11th Hour,” as part of Tree Media’s promotion of the movie at college campuses across the country.
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Monday, March 31 - “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries
Tuesday, April 1 - “An Inconvenient Truth” slideshow
7 p.m. at the ECM
Wednesday, April 2 - “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”
7 p.m. at the ECM
Thursday, April 3 - “The 11th Hour”
7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union
$1 to $2 donations to help compensate the ECM for hosting the festival will be appreciated.
Tree Media also offered to provide food from Local Burger including mini burgers, hummus, cheese and crackers and other organic foods.
“We thought it was great because we would want to put on an event like this anyway,” Tran said. “So the idea that they want to provide us with funding is great.”
After showing “The 11th Hour” on Thursday, a panel discussion comprised of faculty, local environmental experts and Stephan McGuire, co-producer of Tree Media’s films, will cap the week’s festivities.
Other films to be shown this week are “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” and “What A Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.”
Brian Sifton, Kansas City, Mo., senior and president of KU Environs, said the films centered on the impending natural resource crises and focused on issues rarely tackled by the mainstream media.
Tuesday’s slideshow presentation from “An Inconvenient Truth” will be given by David Gordon, associate professor of biology at Pittsburgh State University.
“We thought it would be cool to do it that way because it allows people to ask questions if they would like,” Sifton said. “It also gets around the ‘I don’t believe climate change is real because I don’t like Al Gore’ mentality that so many of us have.”
The presentation and movies will offer students the opportunity to inform themselves about topics related to climate change and sustainability, Tran said.
“It’s starting to become more and more apparent that we should be trying to solve these problems,” she said. “As students, we really are kind of paving the way, so the more educated we can be the better.”
For more information about Films for Action and Tree Media, visit their Web sites at www.filmsforaction.org and www.treemedia.com.
— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
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