presents

at the Christopher B. Smith
Rafael Film Center

1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael

Many of our environmental problems can be tracked to the hubris of humans, who are poor stewards of the real estate we call Earth. Humanity may be defined as “we,” but in fact “we” is all living beings and ecosystems, since we are so interdependent. For too long we have defined the world only in terms of ourselves—and often in narrow terms of a small population in a small geographical area.

It’s time we defined future generations as “we” and stop thinking of generation “me”—entirely.

Watch us “build” the program

For February 13

Announcing the Keynote Speaker EYF 2012

Tania Pulido

Winner of the 2011 Brower Youth Award

(From the Brower Award website October 12, 2011)

Class 4 Fellow Tania Pulido will be recognized as one of seven Brower Youth Award winners by the Earth Island Institute

Tania Pulido

next month. Tania is being honored for her leadership in community development and food security in Richmond, California. She not only has dedicated herself to improving her community through her work at Urban Tilth, but also documents community struggles and solutions through media at Youth Movement Records‘ program at the RYSE Center.

When Tania joined Urban Tilth, she had little experience working in a garden. The organization recognized her incredible leadership ability and hired her on as the site coordinator for Berryland Garden, a neglected stretch of the Richmond Greenway. With some positive energy, a willingness to learn and a lot of hard work, Tania is now growing 18 varieties of berries, numerous herbs and even a fig tree in Berryland Garden. She has engaged teens from the community to take ownership of the garden to ensure that it will not fall into disrepair again, and uses the garden as a classroom to increase their knowledge of global environmental issues. The food grown in the garden has supplied the teens and their families with healthy and nutritious options.

URBAN TILTH ON FACEBOOK <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Tilth/40874783043>

The Final Schedule

Trailers for the 2012 EYF

Pipe Dreams:

Premiere

The Cornell University report on the XL Pipeline:                                  http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf

Journey of the Universe

Q&A with Producer/co-director Patsy Northcutt

Patsy’s love of filmmaking is coupled with her passion, creativity and commitment to producing stories that highlight a positive and sustainable future. She’s the principal of Northcutt Productions, one of the two  production companies behind the film. For over 25 years, she’s helped produce programs that create cultural and environmental awareness in areas such as green building, alternative transportation, species extinction, solutions for the future, green plans, social justice, green(ing) business and teen pregnancy prevention.
Recent credits include: The Bioneers Conference National Broadcast; The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small Planet; Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Pachamama Symposium Film Project; Texas Gold; and Building Sustainability with The Natural Step.
For more information, visit NorthcuttProductions.com <http://NorthcuttProductions.com

With My Own Two Wheels

With a special discussion afterwards with co-director Jacob Seigel-Boettner and bicycle advocates with unique perspectives

Jacob Seigel-Boettner

Producer, Co-Director Jacob came home from the hospital in a bike trailer. It was love at  
first ride. He has produced short films in Rwanda and Bosnia-
Herzegovina. Jacob received a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies and
Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.

Severn: The Voice of Our Children

Severn: Voice of the Children

Severn: Voice of the Children

Forks Over Knives

Q&A with Carol Misseldine

Carol Misseldine has been professionally engaged in promoting environmental and animal protection initiatives for over  thirty years. She currently serves as Director of Green Cities California and serves on the Advisory Board of Green Sangha and Kinship Circle. Previous positions include Sustainability Director for then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, Director of The Natural Step’s Great Lakes Office, and Executive Director for the Michigan Environmental Council.

    Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Urbanized   

If A Tree Falls  

(just nominated for an Academy Award)

After film discussion with activist lawyer Dennis Cunningham

Inspired by the civil rights movement to shape up after a drop-out youth, Denis Cunningham got his law degree just in time to cut his teeth in 1968, that momentous year, defending people arrested in riots that followed the murder of Martin Luther King, and protests at the Democratic National Convention. Inspired again by lawyers and organizers working with the NLG, he helped found what is still known and still going strong in Chicago as the People’s Law Office. He likes long cases. His prosecution of the FBI and Chicago Police officers after the deaths of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark lasted 12 years. His defense of 39 prisoners massacred at Attica lasted 29 years. His defense of Earth First! Activist Judi Bari vs the FBI lasted a mere 10 years. But it ended in a victory for Bari (who tragically died of breast cancer during the trial) with a $4.4 million and a repudiation of the charges that the bomb that almost killed her was placed by herself.

Dennis is still out there, looking for another good, juicy, endless case…

I Bought A Rainforest

A Wild Idea

Premiere

With a discussion with Director Veronica Moscoso

Veronica Moscoso is a storyteller who narrates through radio, video, photography, multimedia, articles, chronicles and short stories. She was born and grew up in Ecuador but have lived in the Middle East, South East Asia and now resides in California. Her short film, A Wild Idea is a documentary about the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, Ecuador’s unprecedented proposal for fighting global climate change: In exchange for payments from the world community, the country will leave untouched its largest oil reserves.

Premiere of a new film-in-progress on Peak Oil and the Transition Movement by John Duvall

Continuing our program of presenting exciting new works-in-progress in the environmental film field.

John Duvall has been a sound recordist and foley editor for many Hollywood films including War of the Roses, Hudson Hawk, Dances with Wolves, Heathers and many PBS Nova programs. He is presently Assistant Professor of Communications leading Dominican University’s growing Cinema program in the Communications Department.

And by the way, Dominican University, in San Rafael has a Green MBA program.

<http://greenmba.com>

For February 14 

A Valentine to the Earth for Ages 7-12

Turtle: the Incredible Journey

After Film Speaker from Sea Turtle Restoration Project

We’re so lucky to have Chris Pincetich  who works at the Sea Turtle Restoration Project at Turtle Island Restoration Network campaigning to save sea turtles and protect healthy ocean habitats. Chris’ sea turtle conservation work extends from the Gulf of Mexico, where he fought for increased wildlife rescue efforts during the BP oil spill, to nesting beach patrolling on the Pacific shores of Costa Rica. Chris has a doctorate in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Marine Biology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Studying plastic pollution on our shorelines and in marine endangered species habitat is the focus of Chris’s current work in marine environmental toxicology. He’s very kid-friendly despite all that.

and much, much more, including a 40 min short film collection for the very young

Take Our Poll

Megan Cowan’s site Mindful Schools has this video to offer from master teacher Jon Kabit-Zinn. Megan had such limited time to get the concept along to you. Hope you are curious about it for the future. REMEMBER. It is NOT a religion.

see below

On April 25 the 7 month series of films called A Place In the World will end with a screening of the 2008 German film The Wave, that dramatizes a real event that happened in Palo Alto CA at Cubberley High School in the 60′s. Ron Jones, the Palo Alto teacher who was involved in the event will be there to speak to students after.

As a help to understanding the impact the event had on the students at the time we are posting this 30 minute interview CFI Education Director John Morrison did on Marin Community TV with the director of a documentary. Lesson Plan, on the event (who was also a student then) as well as Ron Jones and many other students who were part of the original event.

Go to:< http://blip.tv/file/4375300>

Students from Richmond Leadership High School, Envision Academy Oakland and TEAM program Tamiscal High in Marin join for 7 months of movies and talk

A tour of the Rafael Film Center, movie Kids + Money, small group break-outs. What do you think?

“kids + money” by Lauren Greenfield (trailer) from INSTITUTE on Vimeo.

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Thank you to all the schools, teachers and students who participated and made this day so enriching. 510 students circulating through three theaters and multiple films and speakers with intellectual curiousity, respect and total engagement. That’s an indication of what strengths  this new generation has.

Students in the Rafael Film Center Lobby

Keynote Speech audience

Brower Youth Awards Director Anisha Desai and Adarsha Shivakumar, Brower Youth Awards Winner 2009 and Keynote Speaker

Adarsha Shivakumar is  a 17 year old high school senior who attends the College Preparatory School in Oakland CA.  He is an environmental enthusiast who recognized the complex relationship between the environment and rural Indian economy and cofounded Project Jatropha when he was 14 years old. Project Jatropha is an international nonprofit collaboration dedicated to promoting the plant Jatropha curcas as an ecologically friendly and economically sustainable source of biofuel beginning in rural India and eventually in other developing countries where the project can be applied.

Under Adarsha and his sister Apoorva’s co -leadership the team has planted close to 40,000 Jatropha, Teak, Silver Oak, Pongamia and other useful forestry saplings . The project involves youth from 33 rural schools and farmer leaders from 14  villages in Karnataka.   He has won several national and international awards such as Gloria Barron Prize, Brower Youth Award, International Young Eco Hero Award, and Outstanding Youth Achiever recognition. Under his leadership the team also has won a Presidential Environmental Youth Award and T4PE Gold Service Award etc (www.projectjatropha.com).

Adarsha serves on the ACE Youth Advisory Board in order to motivate youth across the globe about the importance of Climate Change.  He hopes that environmentally conscious youth across the globe can spearhead a movement that will eventually mitigate climate change from CO2 emission and decrease the dependence on fossil fuels.

The annual Brower Youth Awards honor six young people across North America for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards in 2000 to honor founder and legendary environmental activist, David R. Brower.

EYF 2011 Film Summaries

(ending times are approximate)

THE FOURTH REVOLUTION : ENERGY AUTONOMY

Directed By: CARL-A. FECHNER

RFC 1

9:20-10:43

Running Time – 83 min.

The Fourth Revolution: Energy Autonomy describes the possibility to switch to 100% renewables within the next 30 years . It demonstrates the opportunities which will be provided by the energy revolution regarding sustainable economic development and social and economic fairness. A visionary film, arguing that through energy autonomy we can positively influence the balance of power and distribute capital more equitably -we need only do it. This is not a distant dream anymore, but rapidly becoming reality, as Fechner demonstrates presenting practical examples, exemplary projects and the daily work of “green” champions around the globe.

INGREDIENTS

Directed By: ROBERT BATES

RFC 2

9:40-10:53

Running Time – 73 min.

American food is in a state of crisis. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise, food costs are skyrocketing, family farms are in decline and our agricultural environment is in jeopardy. INGREDIENTS explores a thriving local food movement as our world becomes a more flavorless, disconnected and dangerous place to eat. Discovering better flavor and nutrition, INGREDIENTS is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.

PLASTIC PLANET

Directed By: WERNER BOOTE

RFC 3

9:30-11:30

Running Time – 95 min.

Plastic Planet presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. The film takes us on a journey around the globe, showing that plastics have become a threat for both environmental and human health.

Speaker: Charles McGlashan was elected to the Marin County Board of Supervisors in 2004, was re-elected to a second term in 2008 and served as President in 2008.  From 2003-2005 Charles served as a Director for the Marin Municipal Water District. In his 8 years of public service, Charles has accomplished significant reduction in automobile traffic with leadership in Safe Routes to School and non-motorized program efforts, as well as in development of new shuttle services; increased the use of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency; and has led development of community clinics and community justice programs. His work is focused on sustainability in all facets of public policy: energy efficiency and renewable power, water conservation, affordable housing, local non-car transportation systems, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, smart community design, zero waste, green building, justice, public health, and habitat protection. Prior to elected office, Mr. McGlashan worked for twenty-one years in environmental consulting, corporate finance and strategic planning.  He holds a BA from Yale and MBA from Stanford, both awarded with honors.

VANISHING OF THE BEES

Directed By: GEORGE LANGWORTHY

RFC 1

10:55-12:45

Running Time – 90 min.

Vanishing of the Bees takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder.” To empower the audience, the documentary provides viewers with tangible solutions they can apply to their everyday lives. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message – but will we listen?

Speaker: Mea McNeil

Mea McNeil has an organic farm in San Anselmo with her husband Jerry Draper. They have kept bees for some 30 years and somewhere along the way became bee geeks — fair warning to you.

They are involved with the Marin Beekeepers Survivor Stock project to raise bees without chemical treatments.

Mea is a journalist, writing regularly for The American Bee Journal, and is a Master Beekeeper.

THE KILLING SEASONS

With co-producer Will Parrinello. and editor Quinn  Costello

RFC 2

11:20-12:35

Running Time – 30 min.

Can wildlife conservation efforts go too far? Two white families. Two African stories. Two vastly different approaches: one ruthless, one collaborative. Two startlingly different outcomes. The story of Hammer Simwinga, who protects the wildlife of northern Zambia. Through great personal effort – and risk — he is turning poachers into ex-poachers by teaching them sustainable, more responsible ways to make a living, such as beekeeping and sunflower oil production.  Thuli Makama is representing villagers against Big Game Parks, and she’s trying to get the immunity provision struck from the Game Act as unconstitutional. She and her staff continue their work year after year despite threats to their safety.

Will and Quinn  will also show excerpts from the Mill Valley Group films on shark –finning  (warning to the squeamish), Factory Farms and on  Maria Gunoe, the Virginia activist against mountain-topping coal mining.

Speaker: Will Parrinello’s producing and directing credits include Mustang – Journey of Transformation – Narrated by Richard Gere, it tells the remarkable story of a Tibetan culture pulled back from the brink of extinction through the restoration of its most sacred sites. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nationally broadcast on PBS; Emile Norman – By His Own Design, a profile of the California artist, who, at age 91, is still working with the same passion for life, art, nature and freedom that inspired him through seven decades of a changing art scene and of turbulent times for a gay man. The film aired nationally on PBS; Dreaming of Tibet, an intimate portrait of three Tibetan exiles; Global Focus – The New Environmentalists, an Emmy Award winning series of half-hour programs about grassroots environmental activists, hosted by Robert Redford; and Little Italy, an affectionate exploration of Italian American identity.

Speaker: Quinn Costello is a freelance editor from the Bay Area.  He has worked on a variety of documentaries with an emphasis on social change.  He is currently working on projects involving issues amongst indigenous communities, environmentally sustainable architecture and the next episode of Global Focus: The New Environmentalists.

Speaker: Lani Alo is a program officer with the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest prize program recognizing grassroots environmental leaders. She has been with the Prize for 11 years. Lani’s work at the Prize focuses on researching and supporting Prize recipients from the world’s islands, the US and Canada. She previously worked at the San Francisco Foundation where she managed the foundation’s environmental education and environmental justice grantmaking. Lani is the advisory board president of KIDS for the BAY, a nonprofit organization based in Berkeley that provides environmental science and outdoor education to thousands of students of diverse backgrounds each year. She studied international relations in graduate school.

Youth Made Films

Conscious Youth Media Crew and Mandela High

RFC 3

11:35-12:45

Running Time -30 min

Speakers: Rob Kershaw, Center for Digital Storytelling; Sandy Sohcot, the Rex Foundation

and student filmmakers from Mandela High School, Oakland

The Center for Digital Storytelling, the Rex Foundation and the California Film Institute
collaborated with Mandela High School in East Oakland to explore issues of human rights
and the environment through the art of digital storytelling.

During free periods and designated class time a group of Mandela High School seniors
worked with Robert Kershaw from the Center for Digital Storytelling to produce short
personal digital narratives. Students were challenged to bring the global issues they were
researching for their individual senior class projects such as climate change, environmental
racism, poverty, food security and human rights down to street‐level and to reflect upon
their own personal experiences and insights related to these issues as they unfold in their   
East Oakland community.

The digital story project was inspired by the school’s The World As It Could Be© culminating performance on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2010.  This presentation was part of the school’s use of The World As It Could Be© Human Rights Education Project curriculum developed by the Rex Foundation.   With the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as its guide, the Rex Foundation, through The World As It Could Be©,  collaborates with community arts programs and schools to use creative arts-based learning models and youth-led original dramatizations to inspire youth and adults to value the importance of human rights for all people, as well as to be engaged members of their local and global communities to help make the words of the UDHR a reality for everyone.  (Similar culminating presentations were performed at both Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo, CA and Balboa High School in San Francisco in 2009.)

DIVE!

Directed By: JEREMY SEIFERT

RFC 1

1:00-2:30

Running Time – 55 min.

Dive! follows a group of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles supermarkets.In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good food and uncover a disturbing truth about waste in America. The goal quickly becomes to find out why so much edible food is thrown away instead of being delivered to those who need it.

Speaker: Paul Ash is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Food Bank which distributes millions pounds of food throughout San Francisco and Marin County.  His commitment to ending hunger in San Francisco and Marin has resulted in the steady growth of the programs, distributing just under 4 million pounds of food when he started in 1989 to the 43.5 million pounds that will be distributed this year.   Paul’s background is particularly well-suited to helping the Food Bank distribute more fresh produce per person in poverty than any food bank in the United States:  he attended the University of California at Davis, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics and worked for several years in agriculture including time spent abroad in agricultural development, before earning his MBA from San Francisco State University.  He’s also brought this expertise to helping other Food Banks thrive, through his service on the Feeding America’s Board of Directors, their National Affiliates Council and the California Association of Food Banks.  Paul lives in Oakland with his wife and two children.

16 DECISIONS

Directed By: GAYLE FERRARO

RFC 2

12:50-1:50

Running Time – 60 min.

16 Decisions follows the women in Bangladesh that are participants in the innovative micro loan programs of the Grameen Bank, led by Nobel Prize Winner, Muhammad Yunus. One of the many goals of Grameen Bank is to help impoverished women escape from the clutches of abject poverty by providing them with low-interest, micro-credit loans. When provided with the loans, the women are requested to make sixteen decisions, which many women take very seriously and which change their lives. Director Gayle Ferraro has just finished a new film on Yunus’s and Grameen’s move into the US to areas of poverty.

Speaker: Jenny Yancey

Jenny and Dan Siegel each bring more than 20 years of experience creating and managing nonprofit organizations and working as consultants, researchers, trainers and writers promoting effective philanthropy and innovation in the nonprofit sector. Their combined history of envisioning and building new infrastructure support models in the philanthropic and nonprofit sector, convening leaders across organizations and sectors, sparking collaborative ventures, advising donors, engaging and working with youth and learning daily as parents makes them well-suited to launch and lead YouthGive.

Yancey and Siegel co-founded New Visions PRD in 1989, an international philanthropic research and development organization that has consulted to major foundations and individual donors, and undertaken cutting edge research to advance philanthropy. In 2003 they co-authored a two-year national study of the donor education field, Philanthropy’s Forgotten Resource? Engaging the Individual Donor, in partnership with the Ford, Hewlett, Kellogg and Packard foundations. Siegel and Yancey have worked with numerous financial advisors on philanthropic giving with clients of wealth, and have personally advised individual donors and families in the creation & development of their strategic giving plans. They live in Mill Valley, CA with their two children, Weezie 14 and Satchel 11, who serve as Youth Marketing consultants to YouthGive.

SWEET CRUDE

Directed By: SANDY CIOFFI

RFC 3

1:00-2:33

Running Time – 93 min.

Despite the valuable crude oil that flows from the ground beneath their feet, the impoverished villagers of the Niger Delta wage a daily struggle to survive. Their land and water is polluted and the central government has for decades consistently refused  to have some of the billions of dollars derived from oil drilling benefit the people and villageswhere the drilling takes place. This documentary journeys to the region to examine the complex powder keg situation that could have drastic local and global effects.

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Filmmakers will be presented with a DVD copy of all the films finished in the project. 

The workshops were facilitated by the staff from the Center for Digital Storytelling.

MY Place Oakland participants (left to right): Curtys Taylor, Nae Nae Smith, Kamantai Fungula, Kash Gaines, De’Mario Williams, Persiah Alcorn, Brijanai Collins, Corey Skinner, Jr.

at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 

Downtown San Rafael, 4th Street between A and B Streets

Seminar Admission is FREE — Your school site must pay for a substitute

The Most Dangerous Man

Jermal

On September 10, there will be a combined sneak preview/teacher seminar of selected Mill Valley Film Festival offerings during the Screenings for Schools program. On the 10th, teachers will have the opportunity to preview clips, learn more about the Mill Valley Film Festival Student Screening selections, and collaborate with other educators around making the festival come alive for our students as part of our curriculum. The CFI Education Teacher Outreach Team consists of Bay Area teachers, SFSU professor Mark Phillips, and CFI Education Director John Morrison, who together plan opportunities for students and teachers to use film effectively in their classes.

Some of the film clips presented at the teacher seminar include Horse Boy, the story of a family’s journey as they travel through Mongolia in search of a mysterious shaman to heal their autistic son; Jermal, an Indonesian film about a young boy on an Oil Derrick searching for his father; Mine, a documentary about saving animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; The Most Dangerous Man in America, a documentary about daniel Ellsberg; Skin, the story of a dark0skinned girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era; Zombie Girl: the Movie; a documentary about a 12 year old girl who makes zombie films; and Music for the Revolution, a documentary detailing the cohesion of music and the civil rights movement. 

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the California Film Institute, see the films with other teachers from a variety of district and disciplines, and get your fix of good film in advance of the Mill Valley Film Festival. Your school will need to provide a substitute for the day since you will be out of class. Please RSVP to Michael Levinson, preferably via email at mlvenson@tamdistrict.org or by phone at his classroom at Tamalpais High School, 415-388-3292 ext. 5029.

With just an RSVP from interested teachers, the education program of the California Film Institute hosts 6-8 screenings of Festival films during the school day selected to appeal of students and be relevant of a variety of courses. As schedules permit, directors, writers or actors will be present to answer questions from the students following the film.

Looking forward to seeing you!!

CFI Education Teacher Outreach: John Morrison, Mark Phillips, Abigail Levine, Emily Satterstrom, Bettina Hughes, Alan Charne, Mary Jane Jones, Michael Levinson

Click here for the flyer (PDF).

MY Place, a CFI Education program promoting media literacy through the art of digital storytelling, recruited 8 youths to participate in the first Oakland MY Place workshop. The workshop was facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling with KTOP as the editing facilities partner.

The first day of the workshop consists of students and teachers getting to know each other through icebreakers and writing prompts. CDS teachers Gayle Nicholls-Ali, Rasheed Ali and Amy Hill helped the students writer their stories and record their voice-overs. Students brought photos and spent a day with CFI Education volunteers shooting short video clips of their neighborhoods to enhance their stories. The next day, the students spend their time editing their films using Final Cut Express. By the end of the workshop. participants leave with the basics of filmmaking and editing to share with the world their amazing stories.

A world-wide premiere of their films will be shown at the Zaentz Media Center in Berkeley in September. Family and friends of the filmmakers are invited to this special event.

Important aims of this program are to promote self-esteem and through their films, connect filmmakers to their community.

In April, MY Place workshops are held in Marin for the Canal Community and Marin City and in San Francisco with the Mission, Hunter’s Point and Tenderloin neighborhoods.

After the jump are other incredible MY Place films. Please enjoy.