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The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is Coming to Reno |
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The Wild & Scenic Film Festival (WSFF) is coming to Reno!
Hosted by the Nevada Wilderness Project and UNR’s Environmental Action Team, these independent films are inspiring, positive stories about people around the world making a difference for conservation, green energy and their local communities. From cool to quirky to hilarious, shorts to longer features, this one-night film festival is appearing in 60 cities around the U.S. and will be in Reno:
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 7 pm Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
University of Nevada-Renoadmission: $10 in advance, $12 at the door ($8 with UNR student id)
Local sponsors are Whole Foods, Silver Sage Center for Family Medicine and Sundance Bookstore. Nationally sponsored by Patagonia, the evenings will also include music, raffles, product giveaways, and membership drives.
The festival is in celebration of the Nevada Wilderness Project’s (NWP) 10th birthday - we've protected more than 3 million wild acres in the state, and we're excited about the future, especially opportunities to work with renewable energy companies seeking to develop solar energy on public lands. NWP supports “smart from the start” renewable energy development, which means harnessing Nevada’s renewable and clean energy resources while protecting wildlife habitats, open spaces and the iconic beauty of the state.
The main goal of hosting the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is to generate awareness and buzz around conservation and to attract new members to NWP.
A quick glimpse at a few films to be shown:
• Division Street – 54 minutes – 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 ecologist, engineers, city-planners, and everyday citizens are transforming the future of the American road. From pristine roadless areas to concrete jungles, follow filmmaker Eric Bandick 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.
• Papa Tortuga – 20 minutes – Fernando shows that one person CAN make a difference. His efforts in Tecolutla, Vera Cruz, Mexico, have helped to save the endangered Lora Sea Turtles from extinction.
• Homegrown Revolution – 15 minutes – In the midst of a densely urban setting in downtown Pasadena, CA, 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.
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