UNCG Sustainability Film Series 2007-2008

UNCG will launch a year-long series of films designed to stimulate discussion about a sustainable future for the planet.

The free series begins at 6:30 August 28th with the screening of The 11th Hour.

Eight films will be shown throughout the year at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, at the corner of Tate and Spring Garden streets on the UNCG campus. Free parking in rear of building. There will be opportunities for post-film dialogue with film makers and local experts to address how Greensboro can move into a sustainable future.

8/28: The 11th Hour
The 11th hour is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we've arived at this moment and what we can do to change our course. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

9/25: King Corn
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Directed by Aaron Woolf. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

10/23: Thirst
Is water a shared “commons”—a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold and traded in a global marketplace? Thirst tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions. Directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

11/13: Oil on Ice
A film about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the controversy over drilling for oil there. Directed by Dale Djerassi and Bo Boudart. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

1/29: Waste = Food
Explores the revolutionary “cradle to cradle” as opposed to “cradle to grave”) concept through interviews with its leading proponents, American architect William McDonough and German architect William Braungart. A film by Rob van Hatlum. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

2/26: Black Diamonds
Charts the escalating drama in Appalachia over the alarming increase in large mountaintop coal mines. These mammoth operations have covered 1200 miles of headwater streams with mining waste; demolished thousands of acres of hardwood forest; and flattened hundreds of Appalachian mountain peaks. Directed by Catherine Pancake. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

3/26: Invisible
Tells the story of how man-made chemicals are building up in our bodies and being passed from mother to child. Scientists think that these hormone-disrupting substances are causing havoc with the reproductive systems and neurological health of animals and humans. Directed by Roz Mortimer. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

4/23: Wal-Town
Six student activists. Thirty-six Canadian towns. One giant corporation. A daunting experiment in activism. A group of six university students, calling themselves Wal-Town, take to the Canadian highway over two summers. Directed by Sergeo Kirby. Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30pm.

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