People | Places | Spaces: 2nd Annual Sustainability Film Festival
People | Places | Spaces explores how the world's environmental problems unjustly affect communities around the United States and around the world. The dynamic stories, communities, and places featured in this film series portray a world full of complex social and environmental circumstances and show how communities have rallied together to demand a truly sustainable, just, healthy future for all.
Schedule
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 7:00 p.m. - Green, Green Water
Thursday, Feb. 24, 7:00 p.m. - Gasland + Filmmakers Q&A
Monday, Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m. - Waste Land
Thursday, March 24, 12:00 p.m. - Grassroots Rising
Monday, March 28, 7:00 p.m. - Bus Riders Union
Tuesday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. - Up the Yangtze + Red Dust
Films
Gasland - website
What the frack is going on? This film explores the complex world of "fracking," drilling technology used across the United States to extract natural gas, highlighting the efforts of local communities to organize against the contamination, secrets, and mysteries plaguing them because of drilling activity.
Waste Land - website
"What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you." This film follows artist Vik Muniz as he photographs the community that relies on the dump's recyclable materials to make a living. Along the way, Muniz learns more about this fragile community and their dreams for a better future.
Green, Green Water - website
Do you know where your green energy comes from? Filmmaker Dawn Mikkelson traces the source of her purchased "green energy" to the displacement and injustices exacted upon indigenous communities in rural Manitoba.
Up the Yangtze - website
The story of two young adults, their lives forever changed by the Three Gorges Dam project and the flooding of the Yangtze River. Join "Cindy" and "Jerry" in their quest for prosperity, stability, and understanding in a quickly modernizing world, as they take jobs (and Americanized names) aboard a luxury cruise liner on the fast-disappearing river.
Red Dust - website
What are the impacts of economic development? This short film explores the negative impacts of China's economic development and the efforts of workers to organize against disease and injustice.
Grassroots Rising - website
This film shares the stories of immigrant Asian families working in Los Angeles as they attempt to rise above injustice and create stable, healthy communities.
Bus Riders' Union documentary - BRU website
This film traces three years of the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union as it builds a movement fighting for sustainable and just transit in the Los Angeles area.
Past film festivals
2010 - ROOTED: Food and Farming Film Festival
ROOTED: Food and Farming Film Festival features films that pose questions about our food system - how and where food is grown, transported, prepared, and disposed of in today's modern society. This series seeks to engage the campus and wider Claremont community in dialogs about food and what it will take to develop a sustainable, healthy, community-based food system.
FRESH - Website
The Garden - Website, followed by discussion with the film's director, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Homegrown Revolution - Website
The Gleaners and I - Website
Our Daily Bread - Website