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September 4, 2008
Tickets On Sale NOW for the
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Saturday,
October 18 at 7:00pm
Cal Poly Spanos Theatre
San Luis Obispo
The largest
environmental film festival in the U.S. is coming to San Luis
Obispo! Join Los Padres ForestWatch when it hosts the Wild and
Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour at the Cal Poly
Spanos Theatre on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
The Wild and Scenic
Environmental Film Festival on Tour brings together
award-winning environmental and outdoor adventure films in a
spirit of inspiration and education. It will leave you feeling
inspired and motivated to go out and make a difference in your
community and around the world. The festival's first annual tour
stop in San Luis Obispo includes seven films featuring topics
such as sustainable farming, runaway oil development in rural
communities, alternative fuels, whitewater kayaking and surfing,
and restoring steelhead in our local rivers.
The films for this San Luis Obispo
screening were chosen from among the favorites at the annual
film festival held in Nevada City, California each January. The
festival has grown to receive local, regional, and national
acclaim for celebrating the spirit of environmental activism and
has become the largest traveling festival of its kind in North
America.
The film festival
will also include a raffle and information booths staffed by
local nonprofit conservation organizations.
Los Padres ForestWatch is the only
nonprofit organization focused solely on protecting the Carrizo
Plain National Monument and the Los Padres National Forest, from
the famed Big Sur coastline to the Santa Lucia Range in San Luis
Obispo County and beyond. ForestWatch is supported by more than
800 members around the region.
A benefit for ForestWatch’s work,
this event will be an entertaining and moving experience not to
be missed!
2008 FILM PROGRAM
 Introduction
Settle into your seats as your Master of Ceremonies
introduces the first annual tour stop of the Wild & Scenic
Environmental Film Festival in San Luis Obispo!
 Carpa Diem
Sergio
Cannella
Before sleeping, a child in her apartment is lovingly watching a
fish in the aquarium. In the meantime her younger brother is
being mindless of the open tap the water flowing out of the
washbasin ... a waste that could turn into a tragedy. Many
awards, including: Best Short, Vatavaran FF; Best Spot, Festival
International Du Film Sur L’Énergie de Lausanne. (Italy, 2006, 2
min)
 Fridays at the
Farm (Honorable
Mention)
Richard
Power Hoffman
Feeling disconnected from
their food, a photographer/filmmaker and his family decide to
join a community-supported organic farm. Moving from passive
observer to active participant, the filmmaker photographs the
natural processes of food cultivation. Featuring lush time-lapse
and macrophotography sequences compiled from nearly 20,000 still
images, this personal essay is a meditation on the miracles of
life. Best Short, Green Film Festival, Seoul, Korea. Best
Documentary, Sapporo Short Film Festival, Japan. (USA, 2006, 19
min)
 Oil + Water
Project (People's
Choice Award)
Seth Warren
Two kayakers embark on an endless summer-style 35,000 km road
trip from Alaska to Argentina in a retro-outfitted Japanese fire
truck without a single drop of petroleum. They converted their
regular diesel engine to run on everything from pig lard to palm
pulp and they traveled for 9 months in pursuit of the best
whitewater in the Americas. The pair coordinated with schools,
local governments, farmers, agricultural research centers and
media to conduct demonstrations advocating for the use of
alternative energy all along the way. Best Environmental Film,
Taos Mountain Film, Everest Award Recipient for Advocacy. (USA,
2007, 33 min)
Intermission
Check out information booths staffed by local
nonprofit organizations working to protect our local
communities. Learn more about the local green businesses that
are sponsoring this event. Mingle with friends. And don't forget
to grab some raffle tickets for a chance to win exciting prizes!
 Horse
Creek
Damolition (Local Feature)
Thomas B. Dunklin & Matt Stoecker
In 2006, a blasting crew descended
into the Sisquoc River watershed between Santa Barbara and San
Luis Obispo. Three days and forty sticks of dynamite later,
they had skillfully removed a defunct and crumbling dam that
was, until now, impassable to steelhead migrating
upstream. Local nonprofit organizations, state and federal
agencies, and a visionary fish biologist led to the opening of
20 miles of endangered southern steelhead habitat in a single
blast. Damolition - fire in the hole! (USA, 2007, 18 min)
 Pulp, Poo &
Perfection:
A Green Surfing Story
Angel
Marin
This short
documentary investigates two issues threatening water quality
and public health in Chile: Pichilemu’s sewage pipeline and
forestry industry pollution. Told through the perspective of
local surfers, fishermen, and lovers of the ocean, this film
features mythical waves, surfing, inspired activists, fishermen,
environmental problems and sharky corporate executives woven
into a classic South American tale of environmental action and
ecological solutions. Best Environmental Surf Film, Preios
Anuales Demolicion, Chile. (Chile, 2007, 16 min)
 Water Loving
Doggies
Will
Kier
There are places in this world and moments in time when PARADISE
does exist ... join some furry friends down on the Yuba River.
(USA, 2007, 3 min)
 A Land Out of
Time (Feature Film, Spirit of Activism Award)
Mark Harvey
The federal government is
leasing millions of acres to the oil industry and issuing tens
of thousands of permits to develop all over the heart of the
West. The wild places of America’s Western geography are being
rendered into an industrial landscape. This film introduces you
to the faces and unconventional partnerships behind the fight to
save the landscapes of the West. Best Environmental Documentary,
Taos MountainFilm. (USA, 2006, 53 min)
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