FILMS+EVENTS
Summer 2010
Presented by The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation.
Four films with an entertaining take on sustainability and the environment. This summer, all free, thanks to a first-ever collaboration between Burt's Bees, Full Frame, American Tobacco and FOX 50.

Screenings are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and begin at dusk (9pm) on the main lawn at the American Tobacco Campus. Selections include highlights from the 2010 festival, along with other new and older works. The series kicks off Friday, July 2 with Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film NO IMPACT MAN.

Remaining titles will be announced in the coming weeks. Save the dates, Friday nights: JULY 2, JULY 9, JULY 16, and AUGUST 6. We hope to see you there!
Friday, July 2
9:00pm
American Tobacco Campus - Main Lawn
FREE!
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.

It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.

No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.

Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.

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Friday, July 9
9:00pm
American Tobacco Campus - Main Lawn
FREE!
Winner of the 2010 Full Frame Audience Award, filmmaker Lucy Walker’s WASTE LAND follows artist Vik Muniz as he returns to his native Brazil—to Jardim Gramacho, the largest landfill in the world, located just outside Rio de Janeiro. Renowned for making portraits out of unusual objects—sugar, dirt, peanut butter, chocolate syrup – Muniz plans to create portraits, constructed entirely out of garbage, of the catadores who pick through the rubbish for recyclable items, and to give the profits from their sale back to his subjects. He involves and eventually forms relationships with the garbage pickers. At first he takes carefully posed photographs of them, and they in turn join him in the construction of their portraits, transforming huge reproductions of the original photo into collages of trash. The result is a complicated interplay of artistic process, collaboration, and responsibility to one’s subject. Visually striking, the film moves between vast images with panoramic scope and close-ups in vivid detail, holding the human drama and the magnificent artwork in exquisite balance. Winner of the 2010 Sundance World Documentary and Berlin Audience Award.

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Friday, Aug 6
9:00pm
American Tobacco Campus - Main Lawn
FREE!
This gorgeous, historic, and inspiring new film from director and surfer Chris Malloy and his collective at Woodshed Films, documents the adventures of surfer and climber Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard (rock climbing legend and founder of Ventura-based Patagonia) and Doug Tompkins, on which they drove, mountain climbed and surfed their way to Chilean Patagonia. Along the way, Jeff encounters big surf, snowy mountains, a dangerous ocean crossing, pulp mills, cowboys, dams and more on his way to climb Cerro Corcovado in Patagonia. Jeff's life takes a turn when he meets up in a rainy hut with Chouinard and Tompkins who, once driven purely by a love of climbing and surfing, now value above all the experience of raw nature and have come to Patagonia to help use their influence to help protect it. The film is a road trip movie, a historic document, and an environmental call to arms, but mostly a meditation on what matters most in life -staying true to one's own vision and values. With stunning cinematography and an incredible soundtrack of original music from Ugly Casanova, this film's not to miss.

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Friday, September 3
9:00pm
American Tobacco Campus - Main Lawn
FREE!
When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area—the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States’ natural gas drilling boom. What he uncovers is truly shocking—water that can be lit on fire right out of the sink, chronically ill residents of drilling areas across the US all with the same mysterious symptoms, huge pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation well blowouts and huge gas explosions consistently covered up by state and federal regulatory agencies. These are just a few of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Winner of Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2010.

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