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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION: 9th Annual Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
TOPIC: Environmental Justice
FILMS: White Gold - The True Cost of Cotton (8 min)
Endless Fallout (54 min), Once Upon A Time There Was a Forest (12 min) &
Coal, Earth, Home (40 min)
Followed by a panel discussion.
ENDLESS FALLOUT (English/CANADA)
Bhopal, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez - three names that have taken on mythical proportions. Three of the worst technological disasters that humankind has ever known. For most people, the intensity of these catastrophes has dissolved in their memories. However, the thousands of survivors that are still trying to cope with the long-term effects of these tragedies have a different story to tell. In addition to being deprived of a just settlement, they must now fight against the passage of time to make sure that these disasters do not go down in history as simple speed bumps. Marked for life by these man-made calamities, the survivors challenge us to think about the risks of technological development. Endless Fallout revisits the sites of the disasters and recounts the tragic story of these survivors, and their thirst for justice - before it is too late. (Robert Cornellier, 2006)
COAL, EARTH, HOME (German/with SUBTITLES)
What home means to a group of villagers who may lose their 750-year-old hometown, Heuersdorf. The Saxon village is to be razed for the expansion of the adjacent open-pit, brown coal mine. Portrays a conflict of economics, resources, politics, and the individual person common the world over in the face of "progress." Prize winner, Catalonia Int'l Film Festival 2006. (Robert Harding Pittman, 2005)
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Location4000 15th Ave NE, University of Washington
Kane Hall Auditorium, Room 210
Seattle, WA 98105
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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