Save the Date!
Date: March 20th, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm: Supper and silent auction
7:00-10:00 pm: Films
Cost: $30.00/person Early Bird Special is $25.00 until March 1, 2010
The Tickets
The cost for the entire evening is $30.00 per person. This price is also a tax-deductible donation to the community science and civics work of "e" inc.We will offer an Early Bird Special if you purchase your tickets before March 1, 2010. The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festivalwill be held on the evening of March 20th so save the date!
For tickets, please click to Brown Paper Tickets
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The Event
"e" inc. is proud to be the official Boston host of The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival -- the largest environmental film festival in the United States. Created eight years ago by a small group of riverkeepers in California, The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festivalis designed to inspire by showing actions and ideas from around the globe on a wide array of environmental issues.
The Greening of WSEFF
This year, in order to maintain a low carbon footprint we will be:
- Setting up a swap shop (bring a gently used item and swap)
- Using compostable plates and utensils
- Auctioning many green items
- Asking invitees to bring the coffee mug they use for commuting as their glass for the evening
- Recycling bottles, plastic, metals, paper
- Donating all left-over foods
- Printing programs on recycled paper
- Teaching about issues and activism
The Location
The second annual WSEFF is being held at:
The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
41 Berkeley Street (corner Tremont)
Boston, MA
The Evening
Doors will open at 6:00pm with a supper and silent auction. This year's films will begin at 7:00 pm and will be shown in two segments, with dessert served at the intermission. We also have great environment-focused ideas and activities planned throughout the evening.
This year’s festival opens with the acclaimed documentary “Tapped.” This fascinating and polished expose looks at the privitization of water and, trust us… You will never look at your bottle of water the same way again!
Welcome to an evening of dynamic films, convivial company, delicious foods, and a chance to engage and enjoy. For more information visit: www.e-action.us or call 617-227-1522.
The Films
By bringing a mix of films from filmmakers all around the country, The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festivalgathers important ideas and voices. Here, there are films about activism and new inventions, about the challenges facing wildlife, and about the people standing up to those challenges. The Film Festival stands apart by its ability to leave you feeling engaged and motivated to go out and make a difference in your community and the world.
In this, our second annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, we will show films that demonstrate the beauty of the desert, the predicaments currently facing our water supply, and the work communities are doing to protect the planet. Take, for example, the story of the young man trained by Al Gore’s team to teach about global warming to youth. Perhaps the challenges of cap and trade or the story of the grade-school children in Australia that use 5-minutes every morning to change the world will light a fire for your own activism.
The "e" inc. - hosted Wild and Scenic Environmental Festival will take viewers across the globe as we see pristine habitats, oil resources accessed beneath farms, and activism by young people preserving habitats around the globe.
Welcome to an evening of dynamic films, convivial company, delicious foods, and a chance to engage and enjoy. For more information write: info@e-action.us or call us at: 617-227-1522.
This years Boston schedule:
Tapped - 76 min.
Stephanie Soechtig, Sarah Olson
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold? Take a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of the bottled water industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought to never become a commodity: our water. Best Documentary - Eugene Intl Film Festival.
Intermission: (Dessert)
The Fun Theory: Piano Stairs - 2 min.
The Fun Theory. We believe that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that its change for the better. Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here.
Split Estate - 15 min.
Debra Anderson
Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. Planet Greens Documentary Film Series - Reel Impact.
Brower Youth Award
Sierra Crane-Murdoch, 21 , of Vermont, co-launching Power Past Coal a national grassroots initiative of activists battling coal projects.
The Story of Cap & Trade - 10 min.
Free Range Studios
Annie Leonard of The Story of Stuff is back! This time, she is telling the story behind one of the most talked about solutions proposed to combat climate change: carbon trading. But is carbon trading a real solution, or just a dangerous distraction? Annie looks at the controversial issue in a head-on, matter-of-fact, and provocative way that will open your eyes and make you think twice about this supposed silver bullet.
Brower Youth Award
Alec Loorz, 15 , of California, the youngest presenter of Al Gores The Climate Project and the founder of SLAP, Sea Level Awareness Program, to educate coastal Californians about sea level rise and global warming.
Secret Life of Paper - 6 min.
Mark Sugg, Loch Phillipps
Ever wonder what happens to the newspaper we read in the morning? Have you ever considered what impacts these products have on the environment, from beginning to end? INFORMs Secret Life Series is a collection of videos that highlight the environmental impacts of everyday products we all use.
A Year in the Desert: Anza Borrego - 15 min.
Chris Pyle, Nicholas Clapp
Each season in the Anza Borrego desert has its special creatures: tiny hummingbirds, darting lizards, slithering snakes, head-butting bighorns. Their land is seared by ground temperatures of 180 degrees, swept by a flash flood, even blanketed by a snowstorm. Yet they not only survive, but thrive. Of interest: When the State threatened to close Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the film was rushed to completion, and copies hand-delivered to every last legislator. They then had a change of heart. And the Park survives and thrives. Both filmmakers have received numerous regional and national Emmy Awards.
Every Day at School - 5 min.
(a.k.a. Change the World in 5min. at School)
Tristan Bancks, Wendy Gray
Follow a class down under as they spend the first five minutes of every day at school taking action to change the world in positive ways.
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