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Green Film Festival
The Green Film Festival Schedule
(Schedule is subject to change. Please check back often for updates.)
- 2:00 ~ Commercial on Littering (5 min.)
- 2:10 ~ Back to the Land...Again (20 min.)
- 2:35 ~ Water Under Attack (Work In Progress) followed by Q&A (90 min.)
- 4:20 ~ Hidden Secrets: Toxins in Our Environment (15 min.)
- 4:40 ~ FOOD, Inc. (94 min.)
Presented by the Philadelphia Film Society
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Food, Inc.
Directed by Robert Kenner
If you still haven't seen this movie, shame on you! Just kidding. GreenFest Philly is excited to announce that we will be showing this great movie for FREE. So come out and view a spectacular film that will change the way you look at what you eat.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
(Excerpt from www.foodincmovie.com)
Hidden Secrets: Toxins in Our Environment
Directed by Teresa Mendez-Quigley
Recognizing that ingredients in everyday products, from personal care products to foods to our homes and workplaces, can impact health, the film introduces the concept of body burden, the chemical load our bodies carry, and how to minimize our exposures. Filmed in the Philadelphia area with experts on health and the environment.
Water Under Attack (Work In Progress)
Directed by Josh Fox
Natural gas has been advertised as a solution to our nation's energy problems. But behind the PR campaign is a flurry of under reported disasters: polluted air, undrinkable water and a rising health crisis. The documentary moves from a simple story about a man trying to protect his home to a much larger understanding of the USA as a nation in jeopardy of irrevocably polluting it’s water systems and land. Traveling to ravaged lands in Colorado, Wyoming & Texas, Josh interviewed people who lived near these drilling sites—people who can light their tap water on fire, who can’t drink their well water, people in rural areas dealing with heavy levels of air pollution, who have stillborn livestock, and unexplained brain lesions. Three hundred thousand more wells are planned for NY state and Pennsylvania in the near future.
Back To the Land...Again
Directed by Gretta Wing Miller & Aarick Beher
'Back To the Land...Again' presents the state of organics today by highlighting the beautiful farms and sustainable practices of a collection of Wisconsin organic farmers.