3rd Annual Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
September 15, 2009
What do a wheelbarrow of beer, a basket of wine, whitewater kayaking, climate change and mountain top mining all have in common? The third annual Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is back in Davis!
The festival will be showing on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School, 315 W. 14th Street. The show will begin at 7 pm, doors will open at 6:30. 
The 3rd Annual Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour, hosted by Tuleyome and the Sierra Club Yolano Group, brings together award-winning environmental short films in a spirit of inspiration and education. This year's films include MINE, a story told through the lens of a town deep in the Appalachian Mountains where coal is king; Homegrown Revolution, on how a Pasadena family harvests nearly 3 tons of organic food from a 1/10 acre garden; and Papa Tortuga, a portrait of one man's efforts to save the endangered Lora sea turtles in Tecolutla, Mexico. This year there will also be a silent auction for a wheelbarrow of Sierra Nevada beer and other great items donated by local businesses.
The Master of Ceremonies for the evening event will be acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. Mr. Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program. Mr. Robinson will discuss climate change issues and be available for a brief question and answer program at intermission.
Also in attendance will be world class whitewater kayakers and film makers of The Last Descent. This 2009 Wild & Scenic People's Choice Award winner shows the film makers paddling down some of the world's most amazing rivers that are being threatened by large scale hydroelectric projects. They will introduce their film and be available for questions after the show.
The festival, which continually seeks opportunities to work with community businesses, is pleased to work again with F&F Multiprint of Woodland, provider of all of the festival's printing needs, Armadillo Music, and our corporate sponsors Frey Vineyards, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Tom's of Maine, Clif Bar, Osprey Packs and Patagonia.
This year a special free one-hour children's matinee featuring films just for kids will be shown at selected participating elementary schools in Woodland.
So come and join us on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School, 315 W. 14th Street. The two and a half hour show begins at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30. Tickets are $10 and are on sale at Armadillo Music at 205 F Street in Davis or call (530) 350-2599. If available, tickets will also be for sale at the door the night of the festival.
For more info contact: Vallerye Anderson (530)-350-2599 vanderson@tuleyome.org or Debra Chase (530) 400-4118 dchase@tuleyome.org
