Environmental Film Festival & Salon
“Your Environment. Your Festival.”
November 19-22, 2009
THURSDAY – Sustainable Drive-In
Family Night FREE!
5:00 pm Jumper, temporary tattoos,
Green Truck Food Service
5:15 pm Tom Freund Concert
6:00 pm Film – Flipper
FRIDAY – Amazon Night
6:30 pm Doors open–dinner & music
7:30 pm Live performances
8:30 pm Film – Crude
SATURDAY – Celebration Day
Celebrate Earth FREE!
10 am – 6 pm Eco-Arts Street Fair
Games, Live
Performances, Food
FREE Eco/Arts Street Fair
Saturday Nov. 21, 10-6
SUNDAY FILMS
1 pm – Bright Cities
1.
BulletRiding Bikes with the Dutch (3:30)
2.
BulletHolistic Economics (11:30)
3.
BulletRefinement (4:00)
4.
BulletThe Nature of Cities (60:00)
3 pm – Experimental Eye followed by
Awards & Closing Ceremonies
1.
BulletTime Is Ticking (3:48)
2.
BulletSpeedini (3:00)
3.
BulletChange the Record (3:00)
4.
BulletRefinement (4:00)
5.
BulletStreet Chaos (9:00)
6.
BulletTyphoon Nangka Hong Kong (5:30)
7.
BulletLightnest (5:00)
plus
Community Shorts
Followed by awards ceremonies/party. Free to all attendees with ticket stub or badge.
SCHEDULE OF SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
SATURDAY FILMS
2 pm – Blue Water
1.
BulletOn the Edge (6:00)
2.
BulletThe River (12:00)
3.
BulletWorld Water Crisis (1:37)
4.
BulletThe Agony of the Ganges (52:00)
4 pm – Green Earth
1.
BulletSpeedini (3:00)
2.
BulletHomegrown Revolution (15:44)
3.
BulletAt What Cost? (5:00)
4.
BulletDavid vs. Monsanto (65:00)
7 pm – Companion Voices
1.
BulletThe LIfe of Bob (2:00)
2.
BulletThe Last Elephants of Thailand (40:00)
3.
BulletMeat is Murder (9:00)
4.
Bullet45 Days (12:00)
9 pm – Burning Energy
1.
BulletSpeedini (3:00)
2.
BulletRefinement (4:00)
3.
BulletTexas Gold (23:00)
4.
BulletTransforming Energy (60:00)
Environmental Film Festival & Salon
November 19-22, 2009
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19
SUSTAINABLE DRIVE-IN – Flipper screening
Come by foot, by bike or in 4-person carpools to our solar-powered theater and participate in an outdoor screening event using a solar-powered projector that guarantees fun for the whole family. Pre-film concert by the singer-songwriter, Tom Freund, featuring favorites from his album, Hug Trees.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20
AMAZON NIGHT – Crude screening
The Neighborhood Councils of Los Angeles are proud to be partnering with the Electric Lodge for a monthly film night featuring environmental films and discussions with prominent figures in the environmental movement. This screening will introduce the film series set to begin in January 2010. Our theme for this evening is the Amazon and the event will feature Brazilian food, music, live entertainment and a screening of the film Crude.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21
CELEBRATE EARTH ECO/ARTS STREET FAIR
Electric Avenue will be closed off for an eco-street fair with everything from the latest cars to eco-education game booths, not to mention food and fun. In tandem with the fair will be a screenings in the Lodge and a video booth for participants to add their voices to the conversation.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22
WATERSHED BIKE RIDE
Bring your cameras and your earth eyes for a guided bike ride starting at the base of the Santa Monica foothills and following the watershed down to the Ballona Wetlands and out to the ocean for a visceral experience of the millennia-old workings of Nature under our very eyes and wheels. A great opportunity to connect with the deep eco-structures of our world. The ride will end in Venice at the Lodge with a brunch and discussion followed by a screening montage of the photos taken by participants that morning on the ride.
Environmental Film Festival & Salon
November 19-22, 2009
GREEN SCREEN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL & SALON GEARS UP IN VENICE, CALIFORNIA
Venice, August 3, 2009 – The Green Screen Film Festival & Salon taking place November 5-8, 2009 at the Electric Lodge in Venice is a celebration of environmental action with film screenings, community activities and plenty of interactive dialogue aimed at engaging participants and attendees to connect with each other dynamically and take action based on the experience.
This year’s festival will emphasize the intersection of the films as a form of artistic and social expression and the responses of the people who see them. Every screening will be followed by a town hall style discussion of the issues addressed in the films. Facilitators will seek to engage those in the audience to brainstorm approaches to improving on problems and capitalizing on solutions presented in the films. The expert knowledge of the filmmakers and facilitators will help inform the public, while the public’s range of personal experience will bring fresh perspectives to the experts who work in the environmental movement.
“This is an activist festival. I want people to feel excited, to leave here inspired,” says Electric Lodge Founder and Festival Executive Director Joel Shapiro. “The whole idea is to engage with our environment and ask questions about where we are, what we are doing, and where we want to be so that we will go out and take the next step, be involved.”
In addition to the screening/town hall sessions, the festival will feature an ongoing exploration salon with films that show initiatives in ‘going green’ by businesses and government agencies. The festival wants to look at questions as to what is useful and what could be ‘greenwashing,’ asking participants to record video responses to these films and engage in a public dialogue between individuals and institutions.
For more information, email info@greenscreenfilmfestival.com
For general questions, call Lizl Pace at 310.823.0710.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
GREEN SCREEN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL & SALON
Los Angeles, July 27, 2009 – The Green Screen Film Festival & Salon taking place November 6-8, 2009 at the Electric Lodge Performing Arts Center in Venice, California is now accepting submissions of films with environmental themes. This one-of-a-kind festival, now in its second year, is more than a film event. In addition to screenings, the festival will include panels, discussions, and community events aimed at engaging participants and attendees to connect with each other dynamically and take action based on the experience.
“This is an activist festival. I want people to feel excited, to leave here inspired,” says Electric Lodge Founder and Festival Executive Director Joel Shapiro. “The whole idea is to engage with our environment and ask questions about where we are, what we are doing, and where we want to be so that we will go out and take the next step, be involved.”
The Green Screen Film Festival & Salon is seeking short and feature length films in both narrative and documentary genres. In addition there will be 2 special categories: student films and not-for-profit PSAs. All films should have an environmental idea or issue, personality, or perspective as a primary focus. Narrative films can be experimental, realistic or speculative in nature, so long as the environment figures substantially in the story. All submissions will be asked, “Why is it important for people to see your film?” The answer to that question will be given equal weight in the selection process along with questions of artistic merit.
All submissions must include the following:
1.
•a DVD of the film
2.
•a completed submission form
3.
•a check or money order for the submission fee made out to “The Electric Lodge” **
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2009. (postmark). Submission forms can be downloaded from the website at https://greenscreenfilmfestival.com
Submission fees:**
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•$25 for short films (under 60 minutes) and
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•$40 for feature films (60 minutes and over).
**Student films and not-for-profit PSAs are exempt from submission fees. Their entry packet must include a xerox of a student ID or proof of not-for-profit status.
Submissions should be mailed to: Green Screen Film Festival & Salon, 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA 90291
For more information, email submissions@greenscreenfilmfestival.com
For general questions, call Lizl Pace at 310.8230710.
For submissions questions, call Susan diRende 310.403.2882
LOS ANGELES, October 25, 2009 – The Green Screen Environmental Film Festival & Salon, November 19-22, 2009 celebrates our world and how we live in it with a series of lively events: a Sustainable Drive-In on Thursday, Amazon Night on Friday, the Celebrate Earth eco/arts street fair on Saturday, and a Watershed Bike Ride on Sunday.
The Sustainable Drive-In will take place outdoors* at the Electric Lodge Performing Arts Center with a free screening of Flipper starring Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan. Carpool, take the bus, bike or walk to the Lodge parking lot where the movie will be projected giant-screen on the side of the lodge thanks to a solar-powered projector. Nutritious and affordable dinners will be offered for purchase to aid non-profit organizations that provide job training and housing for low income women in Southern California. The fun and food begin at 5 pm with the movie screening at 6. Come early and have a bite to eat, let the kids play on the giant jumper and get their faces painted before settling in for this great family environmental film. *If the weather?s bad, the event will move indoors at the Lodge.
Friday is Amazon Night, a celebration of the contribution the Amazon and surrounding vast forest and ecosystem to the health of the life on planet Earth. There will be live Brazilian music, dance and the showing of Crude, a film cataloguing the struggle of corporate, government and individual rights in relation to a working, balanced ecology.
Celebrate Earth eco/arts fair is another free event planned taking place Saturday, November 21 from 10-6 pm. Live entertainment, food, games, and local arts and crafts as well as green merchandise just in time for the holidays, and a mini-electric car show will fill Electric Avenue between Milwood and California while the films for the festival are screening inside the Lodge. Eco games and prizes will test kids? knowledge (and adults too) of sustainable practices with prizes for all. Do you know for sure what goes in the recycle bins and what does not? The first 100 attendees will receive a free reusable water bottle.
Sunday brings us to the Watershed Bike Ride. We will start from the upper Santa Monica watershed (at 26th St and San Vicente) with a learned guide on the path of water and it’s life from 1000’s of years ago to the present. The ride takes us to the Ballona Wetlands and ends at the Electric Lodge for a brunch and photo show of images of the ride will be screened.
These events are a part of the Green Screen Environmental Film Festival & Salon, bringing the power of film to bridge distances and reveal our common deep connection to our planet and each other. Produced by the Electric Lodge, this festival continues the Lodge?s 13-year journey of activist involvement in the community and the environmental movement. One of the first solar-powered theaters in the country, the Lodge continues to refine its practices and outreach. As the founder of the Arts:Earth Partnership (www.artsearthpartnership.org), the Lodge is working with the Cities of Santa Monica and Los Angeles to green all cultural venues/institutions/museums, studios and individual artists.
For more information on the Green Screen Festival, the Sustainable Drive-In, the Celebrate Earth eco/ arts fair, or the Electric Lodge itself, go to greenscreenfilmfestival.com.
Contact: Lizl Pace
Tel: 310-306-1854
email: livearts@electriclodge.org
