Event
SUNDAY MORNING FILMS: 9th Annual Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
TOPIC: Factory Farms & Mining
FILMS A: FACTORY FARMS
The Meatrix II (5 min),
Beyond Closed Doors (57 min),
The Meatrix II 1/2 (3 min) followed by
FILMS B: MINING
The Company We Keep (24 min) &
The Curse of Copper (34 min)
THE MEATRIX II & II-1/2 (English, Animation)
These animated shorts are the sequel to the award-winning smash hit The Meatrix. The films, a humorous spoof on the 'Matrix,' take a look at the gap between our illusions about where food comes from and the reality of industrial meat and dairy production.
BEYOND CLOSED DOORS (English)
Beyond Closed Doors examines the science, ethics and politics of animal agriculture. Leading world experts take the viewer beyond the rhetoric of important issues in agriculture, rarely covered by the mainstream media, yet have the potential to affect the lives of all Americans.
THE COMPANY WE KEEP (English/UK)
When the filmmaker's grandmother tells him that he will one day inherit her shares in the multinational mining corporation Rio Tinto, he heads off around the UK to find out if the company is really as bad as its reputation. Along the way, he meets an ex-head of Friends of the Earth, who now works for the company, and goes to the Eden Project in Cornwall, where they sing the company's praises. Have the environmentalists sold their souls to big business? Encouraged by the lure of 'a little windfall', the filmmaker contemplates whether it is time for him to grow up and become a part of the capitalist conspiracy...
THE CURSE OF COPPER (English/CANADA)
A Canadian Mining Company is planning to construct an open cast copper mine in one of the world's biological hotspots -a pristine cloud forest in the heart of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. Local communities strongly oppose the mine as it will ruin their livelihoods, and destroy their environment which is a home to many endangered species. The company is ignoring their heart-felt pleas and through death threats, bribery and intimidation, is pushing forward with the project with disastrous consequences.
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Location4000 15th Ave NE, University of Washington
Kane Hall Auditorium, Room 210
Seattle, WA 98105
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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