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It's the Battle for a Living Planet.
A Fierce Green Fire chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century & one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together parts of environmentalism & connects them, focusing on activism & people fighting to save their homes, lives & future.
Film Showing
A Fierce Green Fire - The Battle for a Living Planet
Sunday, July 28th at 7:00 pm in the South Fork Natural History Museum on 377 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton.
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Writer/Director Mark Kitchell will be present to discuss the film and light refreshments will be served.
There is no charge for this film, so come on out!!
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A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy-Award nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones and Isabel Allende, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012 and has won acclaim at dozens of festivals around the world.
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future - and succeeding against all odds.
The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central story and character:
* David Brower and the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon.
* Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal residents' struggle against 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals.
* Paul Watson and Greenpeace's campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals.
* Chico Mendes and Brazilian rubbertappers' fight to save the Amazon rainforest.
* Bill McKibben and the 25-year effort to address the impossible issue - climate change.
Surrounding these main stories are strands like environmental justice, going back to the land, and movements of the global south such as Wangari Maathai in Kenya. Vivid archival film brings it all back and insightful interviews with activists shed light on what it all means. The film offers a deeper view of environmentalism as civilizational change, bringing our industrial society into sustainable balance with nature.
