International Film Festival on Water and Climate Change

International Film Festival on Water and Climate Change

As a part of 2009 Earth Week activities throughout East Tennessee, the Center for Strong Communities will host the International Film Festival on Water and Climate Change, to be held April 19-21 at Maryville College.

The film festival aims to increase awareness and action regarding local and global issues around water and climate change. Three days of screenings and discussions will include short films and feature documentaries that have been honored at the Sundance Film Festival, World Water Forum, the Mumbai International Film Festival, and with many other distinctions.

The film festival, which is traveling to eight colleges in the United States, has been developed by two international organizations, The Charter of Human Responsibilities (CHR) and Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (GCSD). In addition to Maryville College, other campuses hosting the film festival are Xavier University, American University, Harvard, Brandeis and University of the South. Students at Maryville College are coordinating campus participation and some faculty will screen films as part of an academic course. The Center for Strong Communities is working with the Little River Watershed Association and the international partners to bring the festival to Maryville as a free and open event for the whole community.

The festival’s grand opening is a screening of Flow on Sunday, April 19 at 6:00 pm in Lawson Auditorium. Irena Salina's award-winning documentary Flow examines political and environmental issues around the privatization of water and the question of water as a human right or a commodity.

All events will be held at Maryville College, Maryville, TN.
For more information, contact:
Center for Strong Communities, 865-273-8894

FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Sunday, April 19

4:00 pm Pre-festival discussion of mountain top removal.
Screening of Black Diamonds (Lawson Auditorium)

5:45 pm Opening Reception ~ Lawson Auditorium (Fayerweather Hall)

6:00 pm Welcome and Introduction to the Festival
Feature documentary: Flow: For Love of Water (93 minutes)
See the trailer @ http://www.flowthefilm.com/trailer

Monday, April 20
1:00-3:00 Coffee Shop: Four short films (26 minutes each – see descriptions below)
Cold Coral Deep, India Roadshow, Good Society, Grounds for Hope

4:00-5:00 Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (GCSD)
Workshop especially for college students and high school students

6:00-until Community organizations & display booths in Alumni Gym

6:00-10:15 Screenings in Alumni Gym

6:00-7:00 The Future of Water (57 minutes)
global overview of water politics, economics and access

7:10-8:40 Blue Gold (90 min., multiple countries, people’s basic right to water)

8:45-10:15 One Water (90 minutes, 15 countries – abundance vs. scarcity)

Tuesday, April 21

12:00-1:00 Short film brownbag at Center for Campus Ministry
Nor Any Drop to Drink (26 minutes, Middle East)

1:15-1:50 Chapel service: “Justice like Water… and vice versa”
Rev. Billy Newton, speaking

4:30-5:30 Workshop: Charter of Human Responsibilities
Location: Center for Campus Ministry

6:00-7:30 Between the Tides (90 minutes, India/Bangladesh) ~ Lawson Auditorium

7:40-8:35 Weather Report (52 minutes, climate change on 4 continents)
Lawson Auditorium