Join us at this special Food, Farming, and Environmental Justice Movie Night at the French Garden Restaurant
with special guests – filmmakers Deborah Koons Garcia, John Antonelli, and Will Parinello
Featuring seven short films from The Mill Valley Film Group's The New Environmentalists
and Deborah Koons Garcia's Soil in Good Heart, along with discussion with the filmmakers
Wednesday, September 29
7:00 - 9:00pm
Please arrive on time!
Come early and enjoy dinner!
Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/frenchgardenmap
Food and Farming in Motion
For the first time, Bioneers and two local Transition initiatives are partnering to create a very special program. Bioneers is pleased to present a sneak-peak of the Bioneers Conference’s Moving Image Festival—a highlight of the conference each year that showcases world-class documentaries and short films on social and environmental issues impacting people and the planet. Designed exclusively for Transition participants, the evening will feature seven short films from The Mill Valley Film Group’s The New Environmentalists, and Deborah Koons Garcia’s Soil in Good Heart—works that shine a lens on food, farming and activist heroes fighting for environmental justice.
Enlivened with dialogue from the filmmakers themselves, including John Antonelli, Will Parinello and Deborah Koons Garcia, as well as local CSA farmers, the evening will ignite discourse on the current issues that are impacting our food supply, and the Earth.
For more information on the Moving Image Festival and the Bioneers 21st Annual Conference taking place in San Rafael October 15-17th, 2010, visit www.bioneers.org. Register now for 10% off the listed price on the website, or become a Bioneers member and get 15% off the 2010 conference fee. To register: http://www.bioneers.org/conference.
BIONEERS MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL MOVIES:
Soil in Good Heart
Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia (The Future of Food), Soil in Good Heart is a short documentary focuses not only on how land-based food is dependent on sunlight, water and soil, but seeks to awaken the public to the importance of preserving and rebuilding this foundation of sustainable agriculture.
The New Environmentalists
Narrated by Robert Redford, Global Focus VII, The New Environmentalists , is an Emmy Award winning series featuring portraits of passionate and dedicated activists. Their goal is to safeguard Earth's natural resources from shortsighted exploitation and unbridled pollution while fighting for environmental justice in their communities. We will be featuring the stories of Lynn Henning in the USA who exposed the polluting practices of CAFOs; Humberto Rios Lambrata in Cuba who promoted sustainable agriculture by working with farmers to increase crop diversity; and Malgorzata Gorska in Poland who led the fight to protect one of Europe's last true wilderness areas.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Deborah Koons Garcia, independent filmmaker
Deborah Koons Garcia’s film The Future of Food (2004) has won awards and been shown all over the world in theaters and was chosen by the Oscar Screening Committee as one of the best documentaries of the year. Garcia's other film credits include Grateful Dawg, a documentary featuring her late husband, Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead. She is now working on Symphony of the Soil, a film about soil and fertility.
John Antonelli, filmmaker and producer, The Mill Valley Film Group
John Antonelli’s recently completed Sam Cooke Crossing Over was broadcast on the acclaimed PBS series American Masters and the feature length documentary Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats which has played around the world. For the past seven years, Antonelli has been producing, directing and writing segments for Global Focus: The New Environmentalists - a half hour program narrated by Robert Redford that is broadcast on PBS stations and The Sundance Channel.
Will Parrinello, filmmaker and producer, The Mill Valley Film Group
Parrinello’s credits include Dreaming of Tibet, an intimate portrait of three Tibetan exiles, which received an Audience Award at the Amnesty International Film Festival. His series Global Focus: The New Environmentalists, narrated by Robert Redford, profiles international grassroots activists. Parrinello co-produced and edited the feature-length documentary Kerouac, which was broadcast on PBS, A&E and The Learning Channel. He also shot and edited In the Light of Reverence, a film about Native American sacred lands.
About Bioneers
Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) is a nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. A celebration of the genius of nature and human creativity, Bioneers connects people with solutions and each other. Its acclaimed annual national and local conferences are complemented by extensive media outreach including an award-winning radio series, book series, and role in media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour.
