2009 Solar-Powered Film Series
September 10-12 [Rain Date September 13]
September 17- 19 [Rain Date September 20]
FROM 7-9 PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
6 7! nights of outdoor documentary features and shorts powered by the sun. In partnership with Green Edge Collaborative, the Film Series returns with the World Premier of Burning in the Sun as well as recent noted documentaries like Addicted to Plastic, Flow and more. Topics include water pollution and safety, solar energy potential, the problems inherent in the plastic textile industry and much more. Also popcorn, trivia, and the return of the Cookie Competition!
There will be a limited number of chairs available, first come, first serve. Please feel free to bring your own!
SCHEDULE (see below for trailers and info on speakers)
Each night will feature adifferent short piece taken from “From Elegance to Earthworms” in addition to the films listed below. Each film will be follow by a speaker and Q&A session on the topic covered in the movie.
*** UPDATE*** The screening planned for Friday, September 11 has been postponed due to weather. Who Killed the Electric Car will now screen on Sunday, September 13 at 7pm. Please join us!
Week 1
Th Sep 10 – Addicted to Plastic (2007, 85 mins)
Fr Sep 11 – (Rained Out)
Sa Sep 12 – Flow: For the Love of Water (2008, 93 mins)
Su Sep 13 – Who Killed the Electric Car (2006, 93 mins)
Week 2
Th Sep 17 – A Sea Change (2008, 85 mins)
Fr Sep 18 – The Garden (2008, 80 mins)
Sa Sep 19 – Burning in the Sun (2009, 65 mins)
Su Sep 20 – [Rain Date for any of above]
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: September 25 at 7 PM [Rain Date September 26]
Screening of What’s On Your Plate? Explore NYC food systems through the eyes of two children. The screening will be accompanied by kid-friendly activities.
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2009 Schedule
Week 1
Thursday September 10: Addicted to Plastic, 2007, 85 mins.
Speakers: Motivated by her concerns over climate change and other related issues, Michelle Vey ventured into the world of documentary filmmaking in 2008. She directed and produced From Elegance to Earthworms, a 30-minute movie about New York’s growing eco-consciousness, which was screened at the Tribeca Cinemas in May 2009.
Amanda Gentile co-founded the Brooklyn Green Team, a grassroots team devoted to reducing environmental impacts. When the BK Green Team launched the No Water Bottle Challenge! it garnered the attention of StopGlobalWarming.org who subsequently created challenges of their own. Amanda is an active community member and was a featured volunteer on Ebru TV’s show Helping Hands which airs in New Jersey and online. She is currently working at the Council on the Environment of New York City’s (CENYC) as a Development and Communications specialist.
Saturday September 12: Flow: For Love of Water, 2008, 93 mins
Click HERE to watch the Flow trailer!
Speaker: John Mundy serves as Project Manager for the Majora Carter Group. The Majora Carter Group is a pioneering consulting group that builds highly productive relationships between organizations and across sectors to help civic, business and nonprofit organizations understand how to meet their needs by working together through green economic avenues.
Sunday September 13: Who Killed the Electric Car?, 2006, 93 mins
Speaker: 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
Week 2
Thursday September 17: A Sea Change, 2008, 85 mins
Speakers: In addition to making the award-winning film Reclaiming Water (2003), Angela Alston has served as publicist/outreach director for her own work and for other projects, including the Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival, Listen With Your Eyes, and Alwan for the Arts. For two years, Angela was Workshop Director for CineWomen NY. She also served as Public Affairs Coordinator for Cornish College of the Arts for three years and is the former Technical Director of Democracy Now!
Baerbel Hoenisch’s research interests focus on understanding the role of the ocean and the effects of marine carbonate chemistry on global climate change. As she was originally trained as a marine biologist, her way of approaching paleoceanographic questions often includes a biological component. She is specifically interested in the validation and application of the boron isotope proxy for past seawater pH.
Friday September 18: The Garden, 2008, 80 mins
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.
Saturday September 19: WORLD PREMIERE Burning in the Sun, 2009, 65 mins
The trailer for this film is not yet available.
For more info, check out partner Rooftop Films’ page: http://newyork.going.com/event-625232;Rooftop_Films_and_IFP_present_Burning_in_the_Sun
Speaker: 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.
PLUS SPECIAL PRESENTATION Friday September 25: What’s On Your Plate, 2009, 73 mins
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About the Solar Powered Film Series
The Solar-Powered Film Series is the first in New York City to use the power of the sun to construct an outdoor “eco-theater” like no other. Our independent film venue integrates natural and human-made components of our urban environment creating the city’s “greenest” motion picture showcase.
This free six-evening program features nightly screenings of a range of films including acclaimed documentaries, dark comedies and sci-fi classics. The series showcases Solar One’s commitment to green energy by powering each screening in part with clean, renewable, carbon-free solar energy.
As part of Solar One’s dynamic and exciting summer schedule, the film series is held at Solar One’s outdoor location in beautiful Stuyvesant Cove Park, overlooking the East River south of E. 23rd Street. For each of the last three years, Solar One has been proud to welcome award-winning director and Oscar nominee Albert Maysles for a Q&A session following one of his films- Grey Gardens in 2005, Gimme Shelter in 2006, and the rarely-seen What’s Happening! The Beatles in America in 2007, making this an even more valuable contribution to New York’s cultural landscape.
The series’ power to demonstrate the utility of renewable energy has never been more relevant or important, particularly with the specter of summer blackouts looming just over the horizon. Since its launch in 2003, Solar One has hosted a plethora of sustainably produced popular arts events like the film series, all of which clearly show the power of renewable energy. Guests can expect great entertainment paired with demonstrations and information regarding key green initiatives.
