Friday March 7th at the Ballroom of the Veteran’s Memorial Hall, Santa Cruz
4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Screenings

4:00 p.m.
Youth Program
Going Big Box VS Going Local 07:20 (U.S.A.)
Environmental Activism and Social Justice
This fast-paced, outrageous docu-drama follows Hannah in her shopping quest for a shirt and some eggs. Hannah's search ends with a sexy surprise, as she finds the metrics behind buying local to be better
for her conscience and her love life.
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Just A Lawn 13:11 Canada
Category - Aspiring/Novice Filmmaker
Just a Lawn' follows the evolution of the lawn, from an 18th century British aristocratic gardening fashion to an iconic element of the North American suburban landscape. Most Canadian homeowners greeted the advent of pesticides for lawn maintenance with great enthusiasm. However by the 1960s, the potential danger of these chemicals became apparent.
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March Point - A Work in Progress 30:00 U.S.A. Washington
Environmental Activism & Social Justice
Cody Nick and Travis, three teens from the Swinomish Tribe, wanted to make a gangster movie. But they were asked to investigate the impact of two oil refineries on their tribal community. March Point follows their journey as they come to understand themselves, and the threat their people face.
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Well-Oiled Machine: On Tour with Hot Buttered Rum 10:25
A bluegrass band from the San Francisco Bay Area, Hot Buttered Rum, chooses an ecological mode of transportation and educates fans along the way about environmental issues.
Their full-sized tour bus has been converted to run on vegetable oil and biodiesel fuel, often acquired as "waste" oil from restaurants in the towns where the band plays and educates fans at music festivals and venues throughout the United States.
Mini-documentary interviews band members on the road about their unique music and alternative fuel mission.

Film Q&A 30:00

7:00 p.m, Screenings with First Friday Art Night Art Opening
Alternative Energy & Eco-Heroes
With Food and Wine

What's Moving Santa Cruz? 23:25 U.S.A. Santa Cruz
Act Locally/Alternative Energy
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a possible solution to traffic congestion in Santa Cruz.  PRT offers 3 or 4 person pods running on elevated lines, with off-line stations so all trips are non-stop.  Time from the Metro Center to UCSC would be about 7 minutes. PRT technology was started in Morgantown, WV in the late 70s and has operated without interruption and without casualties since then.  PRT is now being installed at Heathrow Airport in London, and in Uppsala, Sweden and is being considered in other Cities in the U.S. and around the world.


Suncookers 18:00 Kenya
Alternative Energy
For millions of people living in dry, fuel scarce regions, solar cookers can literally save lives. Follow Magaret Owino, of Solar Cookers International in Nairobi, as she teaches refugees how to use solar cooking.


Ordinary Heroes of Afghanistan 20:00 Afghanistan
Alternative Energy
Operating with the conviction that 'experts' don't have all the answers and technology can be demystified, the Barefoot College applies entrepreneurial creativity to the most complex development problems, yielding extraordinary results. The Barefoot College has already trained “Barefoot” professionals to solar electrify over 200 remote communities across India and is now training Barefoot Solar Engineers in 9 developing countries around the world.

Film Q&A 30:00
Environmental Art

Land of the Pines 05:00 Canada
Environmental Art
Through photographic evidence, we take a journey through real and imagined images of that quintessential Canadian tree... the Pine.

Internal Currents 11:49 U.S.A.
Aspiring/Novice Filmmaker
Internal Currents is a short trip through the creation of the universe and ultimately the beauty of the world in its elemental states. Using images of fire, water, nature, animals, various artists and their processes (painting, dance, ceramics, martial arts). Internal Currents presents the evolution of life in it's creative and ultimately destructive aspects then moves on to make a statement about the regenerative power of our world.

Vraiment? 04:27 Canada
Environmental Art
When we take much of the earth as ours to behold and control, REALLY? shows us a different perspective of our world. Shot in a small area of only a few hundred square feet in a cove in Canada’s majestic St-Lawrence River, REALLY? opens just a small window in the daily life of a few odd and, often, little known living organisms who thrive and struggle in this rich, yet near freezing, underwater world. Extrapolating this little secluded cove to a planetary scale, one can easily wonder about a very different perception of life and death on earth.



Conversing with Aotearoa 14:30 New Zealand
Environmental Art
Drector and animator Corrie Francis uses a collage of animation techniques to lead us through a visual journey of the wildernesses we find both without and within ourselves.

Film Q&A 30:00

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