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The Sierra Nevada Film Festival Returns for 2014
Murphys, CA...The Sierra Nevada Film Festival celebrates its tenth year! The festival opens on March 15, 2014 and continues throughout the year. Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch opens the 2014 Film Festival on Saturday, March 15, 2014, 5:00 PM at Black Bart Playhouse in Murphys. The following feature films will be shown...
A Brief History of the 5-cent Bag Tax When your city is overflowing with plastic bags, how will you react? Jack Green, head of the Department of the Environment, is on a mission to rid the city of its plastic bag scourge in this short film by DC-based DunkYourBagel promoting reusable bags to protect the environment.
Craig Schattner, Adam Walker, Emil Superfin | 2013 | 2 min. | USA
I Am Red The Colorado River runs 1450 miles across seven states and two countries supplying water for 36 million people. It flowed to the sea for six million years but has not kissed the ocean since the late 1990s. A video poem to highlight the beauty and challenges of this national icon, American River’s Most Endangered River for 2013.
Pete McBride | 2013 | 4 min. | USA. petemcbride.com Sponsored by OARS
Maidentrip Fourteen-year-old Laura Dekker sets out, camera in hand, on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure, and distant dreams of her early youth at sea. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut feature amplifies Laura’s brave, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate footage from locations including the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and South Africa.
Jillian Schlesinger (USA, 2013, 81 min). firstrunfeatures.com/maidentrip Sponsored by OARS
Right Now: Living with Mountain Lions | Black Bart Playhouse | March 15, 2014
This high impact music video was designed as an urgent wake up call to spotlight public apathy towards mountain lions. As one of America’s few apex predators, they should be revered, not feared, as popular media portrays. The video challenges us to consider and respect the wild animals around us as we–and they–go about our daily lives. WE have become disconnected from nature. WE are causing the decline in puma populations, and with them goes a healthy ecosystem, which WE also need for our own survival. Some people care. Most people don’t. How can we turn this thing around?
Rob Whitehair, Zara McDonald | 2013 | 5 min. | USA
www.felidaefund.org | www.bapp.org | www.mountainlion.org
Vultures of Tibet In rapidly developing Western China, Sky Burial – a sacred ritual where the bodies of Tibetan dead are fed to wild griffon vultures – becomes a popular tourist attraction. This intimate window reveals the current state of Sky Burial as an anecdote of the larger ideological issues in Tibet today – exploring a world in which nature and culture, humans and animals, spirituality and politics are all interconnected.
Russell O. Bush, Elisabeth Oakham, Annie Bush | 2013 | 19 min. | USA
www.vulturesoftibet.com
Xmas Without China
Two families living in the same community collide when pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge the Jones family to celebrate Christmas without any Chinese products.
Alicia Dwyer, Tom Xia | 2013 | 63 min. | USA Sponsored by Dr. Dorit Eliou
Press notes: http://www.xmaswithoutchina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/XMAS_WITHOUT_CHINA_Press_Notes.pdf
Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch, Arnold is proud to be the host of Film Festival for the tenth consecutive year. Check our website, www.sierrafilmfest.org for a schedule of upcoming films. EPFW promotes responsible, sustainable timber harvest practices through public education, legal action, and coordination with other conservation groups.
Schedule
BLACK BART PLAYHOUSE | MURPHYS | March 15, 2014
DOORS OPEN 5:00 PM
5:30
Welcome and Introduction
5:40
A Brief History of the 5-cent Bag Tax
5:43
Right Now
5:48
Right Now - Q&A
5:57
Vultures of Tibet
6:18
Xmas without China
7:40
Intermission
8:10
I Am Red
8:15
Maidentrip
Tickets (order online at www.sierrafilmfest.org/tickets.html)
Advance
Door
Type
$8.00
$10.00
Adult Admission - Black Bart Playhouse or Columbia College
$5.00
$6.00
Student Admission - Black Bart Playhouse
$14.00
$17.00
Adult Admission to Black Bart Playhouse and Columbia College (save $2-$3 on multi-day ticket)
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