TOMORROW! Sweet Mud Screening at Solar One
Saturday, June 19th, 2010| June 20, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Yet another event collaboration with our good friends at Rooftop Films, we’ll be screening the Sundance award-winning satirical drama Sweet Mud, a story about a young man and his mentally-troubled mother set on an Israeli kibbutz in 1974. While the kibbutz movement is often depicted in a sentimental, idealized way, this film has earned kudos for showing a different side. Co-presented with IFC and the Consulate General of Israel, this event celebrates the 100th anniversary of the kibbutz movement in Israel.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/17-sweet-mud. Solar One will not be able to accept RSVPs for this event.
Sunday June 20, 2010 at 8pm at Solar One
8:30pm Live Music by Hank & Cupcakes
9:00pm Film begins
10:30pm Free drinks courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
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2009 Solar-Powered Film Series Continues for Second Week
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009It looks like the weather will hold and the films will go on as scheduled this weekend! For those of you who have not memorized the schedule yet:
Thurs Sept 17: A Sea Change, 2008, 85 mins.
Fri Sept 18: The Garden, 2008, 80 mins.
Sat Sept 19: Burning In the Sun, 2009, 65 mins.
Rain Date for any of the above: Sun Sept 20
For trailers and descriptions, please visit http://solar1.org/events/film.
Posted in Energy, Film, Food, Global Warming, Organic Farming, Photovoltaics, Pollution, Water | Permalink
Solar-Powered Film Series: “Burning In the Sun”
Friday, September 11th, 2009| September 19, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Saturday September 19th
Short: Blue Marble Ice Cream (from From Elegance to Earthworms)
Feature: Burning In the Sun
WORLD PREMIERE! 26-year-old Daniel Dembele decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels – the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. Burning in the Sun tells the story of Daniel’s journey growing the shaky startup into a viable company and of the business’ impact on Daniel’s first customers in the tiny village of Banko. Taking a controversial stance on climate change, poverty, and African self-sufficiency, the filmmakers shed light on progress in Africa, and infuse optimism across culture. This 2008 IFP Documentary Lab selection will be shown in collaboration with Rooftop Films and IFP.
Speakers: Cambria Matlow and Morgan Robinson (Directors)
Cambria Matlow is a founding filmmaker of Birdgirl Productions, and Burning In The Sun marks her debut as a documentary feature director. She began production of the film in 2005 and has garnered national support from LEF Foundation and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Before her work with Birdgirl, Cambria directed and lensed several short narrative films which crossover styles lending a ‘documentary’ feel to fiction filmmaking. Cambria’s abilities are anchored by her dynamic background in filmmaking, foreign language ability, rich intercultural experience and political awareness.
Morgan Robinson worked as field producer and cinematographer for documentary filmmaker John Halpern. Previously he worked in the production department of Spike Lee’s HE GOT GAME andSUMMER OF SAM. Currently, In addition to co-directing Burning in the Sun, Morgan works for Punched in the Head Productions making MTV True Life documentaries. Morgan wrote, directed and produced the award winning short film CATABASIS, and JI DUMA: BRING THEM WATER.
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Solar-Powered Film Series: “The Garden”
Friday, September 11th, 2009| September 18, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Friday September 18th
Short: Hawthorne Valley Farm (from From Elegance to Earthworms)
Feature: The Garden
An Academy Award-nominee, The Garden follows the plight of the farmers who care for a fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles. Established to promote healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle farm in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods but are now challenged by bulldozers that are poised to level their oasis.
Speakers: Juventino Avila & Stacey Murphy
Juventino Avila, Co-owner and Chef of Get Fresh Table and Market, entered his first professional kitchen in 1995. He began his career as a line cook for Nuevo Latino pioneer Douglas Rodriguez at Patria, which was rated three stars by the New York Times, but received his formal training afterwards at Peter Kump’s School of Culinary Arts (now the Institute of Culinary Education) in New York City. As an instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education [ICE] he had the opportunity to work alongside top chefs like Diana Kennedy and attend seminars with food science writer Harold McGee and the father of molecular gastronomy Hervé This.
Eating exclusively from NYC’s Greenmarkets for two years reconnected Stacey Murphy to food production and led her to question what kind of agricultural was possible in a city as dense as NYC. She entered BK Farmyards in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge as a way to combine all of her passions and envision an urban agricultural system where everyone eats well. She hopes to stimulate new possibilities in our failing food system through partnerships with the city, developers, and homeowners.
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Solar-Powered Film Series: “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Friday, September 11th, 2009| September 13, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Sunday, September 13th
Short: Mean Green Trucking (from From Elegance to Earthworms)
Feature: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Speaker: David Turock
***David will be bringing a RAV-4 EV and an electric mini car to the screening!
David Turock is Chairman of Northern Lights Aviation, a company that he founded to move ambulatory people with serious illnesses from rural areas to major medical centers. His professional career has involved entrepreneurial telecommunications; he holds the foundational patent for technology that carries telephone calls from the public-switched telephone network over the Internet. He is also the director of the Lightning Rod Foundation, which promotes environmentally friendly vehicle technology
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