Film

Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he tries to make sense of our dependence on plastic bags. His quest starts out small and he soon learns that the problem extends past landfills to oceans, rivers and, ultimately, human health.

Questions and answers, to follow, will include information on the proposal to ban plastic bags in Columbus. Come early for a demonstration of turning old T-shirts into reusable bags.

Co-sponsored by Sierra Club and Simply Living.

http://bagitmovie.com/

Encounter Point, directed and produced by Ronit Avni with co-director Julia Bacha, is an 85-minute feature-length documentary film that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the conflict. Their journeys lead them to the unlikeliest places to confront hatred within their communities.

Shot over a period of twenty-five years, Two Blue Lines examines the human and political situation of Palestinian people from the years prior to the creation of Israel to the present day. By primarily featuring the narratives of Israelis whose positions run counter to their country’s official policy, Ohio-based filmmaker Tom Hayes provides a portrait of the ongoing conflict not often depicted in our mainstream media. (98 minutes, video)

Scientists, farmers, and chefs tout medical and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet. Mouth-watering recipes make this film fun!

Sponsored by Simply Living and the Animal Ministry of the First Unitarian Universalist Church.

Chuck.Lynd@gmail.com or 614-354-6172 or simplyliving.org/

Food Chains, the acclaimed documentary featuring the Coalition of Immokalee Workers [CIW], will be premiering in Columbus on December 4 at 8pm at the Gateway Theater, 1550 N. High St. Tickets are only $10. A panel discussion and food will follow the screening. Please join us!

Food Chains, co-produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser (producer of Food, Inc. and author of Fast Food Nation), features the CIW’s Fair Food Program as the long-sought solution to the exploitation faced by farmworkers in the U.S.

Racing To Zero (59 min) is a quick-moving, up-beat documentary that presents new solutions to the global problem of waste. Although waste may create garbage, garbage is in itself a resource, and that is the key. Our film follows the trail of trash and recycling with our guide, Robert Haley, Zero Waste Manger for the City of San Francisco as we travel the city from high to low and look behind-the-scenes at how zero waste can be achieved.

Co-sponsored by Simply Living, the Columbus Free Press, and the Columbus Film Council.

Every day, dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs.

“Going Local” is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world — our ecosystems, our societies and ourselves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future. This film features Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Andrew Simms, Zac Goldsmith, and Samdhong Rinpoche!

Come learn how economic globalization is affecting us and communities everywhere . . . and discover how localization is emerging as the path towards a sustainable future. Discussion will follow.

GrowthBusters is a documentary film that asks the most critical question of our time: How do we become a sustainable civilization? Ready for a paradigm shift? Don’t miss this film!

Money and Lifeis a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis, not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected. An optimistic film steeped in appreciation for human ingenuity, Money and Life does not dictate answers.