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Protecting Mother Earth: Environmental Film Festival
When
- Sunday
- Feb. 19, 2012
- 2:00 PM
Description
For fourteen years, the Environmental Film Festival has brought compelling and important films to the Tampa Bay area and the Eckerd College community in order to raise awareness and promote discussion of questions relating to nature, place, and the environment. Film scholars and filmmakers from around the world engage the audience in lively discussions of the environmental perspectives contained in documentary, animated, experimental and feature films.
Screenings will be held in the Miller Auditorium at Eckerd College and are free and open to the public.
For a list of films, go to eckerd.edu/events.
Mother Earth in Crisis 2011, 12 min. U.S. Aaron Kutnick. Produced by NMAI-FVC. In English and indigenous languages and Spanish with English subtitles.Organized by the Film and Video Center, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Presented by Elizabeth Weatherford, NMAI-FVC Director. At the 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival, indigenous filmmakers and community elders from Canada, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and the United States present their concerns.
The Rights of Mother Earth/Los Derechos de la Pachamama 2010, 20 min. Peru. Produced by Sallqavideiastas and InsightShare Latin America. In Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles. People from five Andean communities dealing with the effects of climate change and pressure to use harmful chemicals in their agricultural practices give their perspectives.
Elderly Words: Who's Threatening the Water? 2009, 7 min. Colombia. Amado Villafaa (Arhuaco), Sal Gil (Wiwa), Silvestre Gil Zarabata (Kogui). Produced by Gonawinda Tayrona Organization in coproduction with TeleCaribe. In indigenous languages with English subtitles. The mamos, traditional indigenous authorities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia, speak about the environmental crisis affecting mountain snows and water.
Yukon Circles 2006, 30 min. Karin Williams (Cook Islands). Produced by the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council. The 2,300-mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations sign an historic agreement to protect it.
Sisa ambi 2010, 25 min. Eriberto Gualinga (Sarayaku Kichwa). Ecuador. In Kichwa and Spanish with English subtitles. In the south-central Ecuadorean Amazon region, the Kichwa are fighting to maintain their territory, where multinational corporations seek to extract oil, gold, and tropical hardwoods. This production documents their innovative effort to mark their lands and make them off-limits to exploitation.
Screenings will be held in the Miller Auditorium at Eckerd College and are free and open to the public.
For a list of films, go to eckerd.edu/events.
Mother Earth in Crisis 2011, 12 min. U.S. Aaron Kutnick. Produced by NMAI-FVC. In English and indigenous languages and Spanish with English subtitles.Organized by the Film and Video Center, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Presented by Elizabeth Weatherford, NMAI-FVC Director. At the 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival, indigenous filmmakers and community elders from Canada, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and the United States present their concerns.
The Rights of Mother Earth/Los Derechos de la Pachamama 2010, 20 min. Peru. Produced by Sallqavideiastas and InsightShare Latin America. In Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles. People from five Andean communities dealing with the effects of climate change and pressure to use harmful chemicals in their agricultural practices give their perspectives.
Elderly Words: Who's Threatening the Water? 2009, 7 min. Colombia. Amado Villafaa (Arhuaco), Sal Gil (Wiwa), Silvestre Gil Zarabata (Kogui). Produced by Gonawinda Tayrona Organization in coproduction with TeleCaribe. In indigenous languages with English subtitles. The mamos, traditional indigenous authorities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in northern Colombia, speak about the environmental crisis affecting mountain snows and water.
Yukon Circles 2006, 30 min. Karin Williams (Cook Islands). Produced by the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council. The 2,300-mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations sign an historic agreement to protect it.
Sisa ambi 2010, 25 min. Eriberto Gualinga (Sarayaku Kichwa). Ecuador. In Kichwa and Spanish with English subtitles. In the south-central Ecuadorean Amazon region, the Kichwa are fighting to maintain their territory, where multinational corporations seek to extract oil, gold, and tropical hardwoods. This production documents their innovative effort to mark their lands and make them off-limits to exploitation.
Website
Phone
727-864-7979
events@eckerd.edu
Where
Tags
environmental , art , pannel , discussion , green , community , foreign , festival , film , environmental , visual art
