Screening: A Fierce Green Fire
Thursday, October 17th 2013  6:30pm
Palo Alto, CA

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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet, the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning 50 years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende, and Meryl Streep, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012, has won acclaim at festivals around the world. In 2013 the film begins its theatrical release as well as educational distribution and use by environmental groups and grassroots activists. A Fierce Green Fire is a California Documentary Project-supported film. Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like Edward O. Wilson, A Fierce Green Fire chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future – and succeeding against all odds. Following the film, filmmaker Mark Kitchell will lead an audience Q&A. Local environmental leaders will facilitate an audience discussion connecting the film to our own communities.

Location:
Lucie Stern Community Center
1305 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA

Sponsored By:
CA Humanities