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Free screening: 'Plastic Paradise'

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Date:
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type:
Screening
Organizer/Author:
Rachel Caplan
Location Details:
Koret Auditorium
SF Public Library - Main Branch
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Join us at the 3rd San Francisco Green Film Festival for this special free event!

'Plastic Paradise' (57 mins) - Travel with filmmaker Angela Sun to Midway Atoll, a remote island in the Pacific, as she seeks to uncover the mystery behind the island of garbage that everyone has heard of but no one truly understands. What she discovers is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island littered with plastics, causing great harm not only to our beaches, oceans, and sea life, but to ourselves. Midway sees 20 tons of plastic trash wash ashore each year and as we watch her sift through ordinary household items among the debris – reusable coffee mugs, flip flops, lighters, even a computer monitor – we find ourselves uncomfortably complicit. This film tackles a seriously daunting problem with high energy and humor, archival footage, and animation as it tracks down the who, what, where and why of this phenomena. Along the way Sun speaks to scientists, environmental activists, the plastic bag guy, marine researchers, plastics industry representatives, even Jack Johnson, to get a sense of how our obsession with plastic began, where it all went wrong and how we can fix it. http://plasticparadisemovie.com/

Discussion following films.

While we particularly encourage youth participants, all are welcome to attend this free festival program.

Infomation: http://sfgreenfilmfest.org
Added to the calendar on Wed, May 1, 2013 1:57PM
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by Rachel Caplan
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