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ClearWater Conservancy Sponsors Wild and Scenic Film Festival September 22
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ClearWater Conservancy will host the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival for the third time this fall at 7 p.m. September 22 at the State Theatre in State College.
Festival-goers will see 10 films in all: one feature length film and eight shorts selected locally from more than 50 award-winning films about nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and indigenous cultures. Together, the films will run a little over two hours.
This year the feature-length film is “Living Downstream” by Chandra Chevannes. Cancer runs in Sandra Steingraber’s family: her mother, aunts and uncles, and now her. But Sandra is adopted. This unusual twist led Sandra to ask what else families have in common besides their DNA. The answer is all around us: our environment. This film is based on the 1997 book of the same name by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival was conceived by a California watershed advocacy group (the South Yuba River Citizens League) in 2003 and has since flourished into the largest film festival of its kind in North America. It is held each January in Nevada City, California.
In 2004, environmental groups started asking if they could bring the festival to their community, and gradually a touring version of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival developed from outside interest. Seven years later, the tour now visits more than 110 communities nationwide.
Advance purchase tickets are $14, $12 with student I.D. On the evening of the show, tickets will be $16 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online. Tickets may be purchased in downtown State College at Appalachian Outdoors, 123 South Allen Street and at the State Theatre box office, 130 W. College Avenue.
Tickets can also be purchased at ClearWater Conservancy, 2555 North Atherton Street. For mail-order tickets, call ClearWater at 814-237-400.
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8/29/2011 |
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