Film Festival

 

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...JOIN MEANINGFUL MOVIES at the 6th ANNUAL SHORELINE SOLARFEST 

(Admission to all films is FREE of charge and open to the public ...donations are kindly accepted)

 

FILM 1: “THE HISTORY OF OIL” - 11:00 AM
(46 min, Robert Newman, 2007)

Everything you need to know about war, peace, propaganda, the origins of WWI, WWII, Peak Oil, The War on Iraq, The War on Iran and the Western Crusade for Middle Eastern Democracy, all delivered at locomotive speed by British stand-up comic/sage Robert Newman. Filmed live on the bicycle-powered stage in London, Mr. Newman delivers a rapid-fire political-historical enema that lets you laugh as you learn the truth about everything. Mr. Newman is highly praised producer of the CDs “Apoclypso Now”, “From Caliban to the Taliban” and “Resistance is Fertile”. His critically acclaimed best-selling third novel, “The Fountain at the Center of the Universe”, is about loss and hope, identity and belief, assassination and passport-theft, set around the world from refugee detention centers to a Welsh trawler to tropical disease hospitals to the Seattle WTO protests, tear gas and rubber bullets. The NY Times has described Robert Newman as Tom Wolfe inside the head of Noam Chomsky. “Newman's is a kind of Revolutionary Renaissance stand-up and it is absolutely wonderful. His comedy probably has more constituent parts than any other comic's, and the whole is still greater than the sum of those parts. Firstly he is very, very funny. He can be witty, satirical and surreal in turn, and every so often will pull out a brilliant impression, just to remind us that he has more strings to his comedic bow than are attached to a World Bank loan.” - FIVE STARS The Scotsman Monday 8/15/05 (commenting on “Apocolypso Now”).

 

FILM 2: “KILOWATT HOURS” - 12:30 PM
(65 min, Jeff Barrie, 2004)

KILOWATT OURS reveals the underreported side effects resulting from America’s voracious appetite for coal-generated electricity, and alternatives that give hope for the future.

Q: What would you find if you traced the wires from your light switch to the energy source?

A: Mountain top removal? global warming? childhood asthma? … or hope?

Vice President Dick Cheney, in his well-known energy policy speech of April 30, 2001, claimed that America must build 1900 new power plants by 2020. That is one new power plant per week for the next two decades in order to meet projected electricity demands. “KILOWATT OURS” challenges this assertion by presenting hope filled alternatives based on conservation, efficiency and renewable power.

 

FILM 3: “BLIND SPOT” - 2:00 PM
(86 min, Adolfo Doring, 2008)

BLIND SPOT is a documentary that investigates the causes behind the reasons for the current crisis we find ourselves in. It establishes the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy and the effect it has had on our environment. It takes as a starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario know as Peak Oil to inform us that by whatever measure of greed, wishful thinking, neglect or ignorance, we are at a crossroad which offers two paths, both with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels our ecology will collapse and if we don’t, our economy will. Either path we choose to take will have a profound effect on our way of life.

"Blind Spot is a fascinating documentary, it draws on some of the most impressive scientific minds to warn us about the dangers of our dependence on oil and educate us about our role in saving the earth and the lives of our children. I was transfixed by it."  -Howard Zinn
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