French Fries to Go
with Daryl Hannah
See the Light Energy Film Festival
Sierra Club North Star Chapter and Minneapolis College of Art and Design Invite You to the 2007 "See The Light" Energy Film Festival
Saturday, February 17th, 12noon - 10pm
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
2501 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis
Download and print a See the Light flyer! (pdf)
Admission is FREE
The "See The Light" Energy Film Festival examines our energy use and how it relates to global climate change, and showcases opportunities for moving toward a cleaner, safer, and sustainable energy future. Films include Too Hot Not to Handle, French Fries To Go, Being Caribou, Power of Community, Kilowatt Ours, Green Green Water, and more!
Come for one or stay for them all! Other highlights include a reception with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, door prizes, speakers, and opportunities to take action on energy issues. Refreshments will be provided.
SCREENINGS AND SHOWTIMES
12 noon — WELCOME
12:15pm
TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE — 60 min.
This primer on global warming shows how businesses,
local governments, and citizens are taking positive
actions to reduce global warming emissions.
www.hbo.com/docs/programs/toohot/index.html
1:35pm
BEING CARIBOU — 72 min.
In 2003, filmmaker Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten
Heuer migrated on foot with the 120,000-member Porcupine Caribou
Herd from Old Crow, Yukon, Canada, to the caribou calving
grounds in Alaska, and back. They took along a 15-inch George
Bush replica doll. One week after their return they traveled to
Washington D.C. to convey their story to Senators on Capitol Hill.
www.beingcaribou.com
3:10pm
POWER SHIFT — 26 min.
Narrated by Cameron Diaz, this film explores the remarkable
ways energy touches our daily lives. Activists from around
the world share action steps you can take to reduce global
warming.
www.goworldlink.com
NATIVE WIND — 1 min.
A public service announcement about the vast wind energy potential
on tribal lands of the northern great plains.
www.nativewind.org
THE VINEYARD ENERGY PROJECT — 16 min.
This film portrays Martha's Vineyard's successful effort to
implement sustainable energy solutions using solar power.
www.vineyardenergyproject.org
FRENCH FRIES TO GO — 15 min.
This funny and hopeful short film documents the origins of Telluride,
Colorado's biodiesel project, and features cameos by Daryl Hannah,
Dennis Weaver and Dr. Andrew Weil.
www.grassolean.com
4:35pm
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY — 50 min.
This uplifting film tells the story of how, when the Cuban people
lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990's they survived through
cooperation, conservation and community.
www.communitysolution.org
5:45pm
KILOWATT OURS — 38 min.
Filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal
mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida,
as he discovers solutions to America's energy related problems.
www.kilowattours.org
6:25-7:25pm —RECEPTION w/Mayor R.T. Rybak
7:30pm
GREEN GREEN WATER — 86 min.
Green Green Water is a story about power... power from hydroelectric
dams... the power to destroy an ancient culture... the power of
money... the power of Indigenous people who refuse to be powerless
in their struggle to survive... and the power of activism.
Follows U.S. filmmaker Dawn Mikkelson as she traces the source
of her 'green energy' back to the displacement of the indigenous
Cree and Metis in Northern Manitoba exposing the important story
of displacement, resistance and insidious public relations that
lie beyond the energy grid.
www.greengreenwater.com
Film Q&A
9:20pm
NOBELITY — 18 min.
Nobelity follows filmmaker Turk Pipkin's personal journey to find
enlightening answers about the kind of world our children and
grandchildren will know. Filmed across the U.S., and in France,
England, India and Kenya, Nobelity combines the insights of
nine distinguished Nobel laureates with a first-person view of
world problems and the children who are most challenged by them.
www.nobelitythemovie.com
NOTE: Films and screening times are subject to change.