sundance channel screenings

As members of the Sundance family, the Sundance Resort and the Sundance Channel combine efforts to present a monthly film series. This series is driven by Sundance's overall philosophy fostering creativity and the independent voice through artistic expression.

 

This Fall's offerings are from Sundance Channel's THE GREEN. THE GREEN is television's first regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment. 

 

For more information, please contact thegreen@sundancechannel.com

 

Screenings begin at 7:00pm. All Screenings are Complimentary.

 

Screenings are held in the Screening Room Theater.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa

In the northern New Mexico desert is an extreme experiment in American living: a loose-knit shantytown of 400 misfits, hippies, teenage runaways, veterans, anarchists and gun-lovers living near the margins of society. With no police, the citizens of The Mesa try to leave each other alone and fly their freak flags in peace, while happily divorced from the rest of America. Documentarians Randy and Jeremy Stulberg provide a "daring and satisfying" (Baltimore Sun) glimpse into this insular community that asks nothing of the rest of the world.

 

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Garbage Warrior

For more than 35 years, maverick architect Michael Reynolds has been passionately creating self-sustaining buildings from simple natural materials and the detritus of consumer society: tires, beer cans, glass and plastic bottles. These off-the-grid “earthships” utilize simple natural phenomena—gravity, radiation, convection—and have no sewage pipes, water pipes or electricity lines. Filmmaker Oliver Hodge profiles a true visionary and his battles to overturn the inflexible zoning and housing laws that endangered his creations.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Unforeseen
Narrowing her focus to one spot on the planet—Austin, Texas, and a local community reservoir - documentary filmmaker Laura Dunn presents an engrossing and resonant story about the environmental consequences of real estate development and sprawl. In a "gripping narrative of political resistance" (Film Comment), The Unforseen delivers an engrossing account of one community's struggle to preserve a portion of the vanishing American landscape. This unusually poetic and lyrical documentary won a Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award. Appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival

 

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Burning the Future: Coal in America

West Virginia provides coal to produce electricity for half the nation. Ironically, while preserving jobs, coal mining disfigures mountainsides, destroys plant and animal species and spreads toxic groundwater. Yet so effective is the coal industry's public relations campaign promoting "clean coal" that these long-term environmental disasters remain largely unreported. In response, documentary filmmaker David Novack provides an impassioned, harsh exposé of big coal. "As upsetting as it is informative" -New York Times

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