BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18826208 SEQUENCE:18975077 CREATED:20190913T222000Z DESCRIPTION: 9th Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival (Day 5)\n\nSeptember 28, 2019\n\nEVENTS:\n\nActivist Center at 518 Valencia\n5:00 PM (240 min) on Sept. 27; noon Sept. 28; noon Sept 29\nFree Event\n\nJoin us at the Activist Center to connect with local campaigns and causes, networking with our Communities Allies, and more. Throughout the festival, a broad network of nonprofit partners and community allies will coordinate efforts at our activist center hub, where audiences can connect their environmental inspirations with local campaigns and causes. The Activist Center will host non-profit Community Ally information tables, educational panels, sustainable art exhibitions, petition-signing booths, happy hour events, and filmmaker discussion forums.\n\nImpact Film Forum: Accountable Filmmaking – Considering Mossville\nManny's @ 1:00 PM (90 min)\nFree Event // An interactive discussion on Mossville with film subjects, film team and Working Films.\n\nEarth Angel: Green Film Production\n518 Valencia @ 2:30 PM (60 min)\nFree Event // Join us for this discussion on Green Film Production with experts in the field.\n\nImpact Film Forum: Climate Justice – Lessons from 'Cooked'\nManny's @ 3:30 PM (90 min)\nFree Event // With filmmaker Judith Helfand, whose new doc raises urgent questions for our Bay Area communities.\n\nFILMS:\n\n"The Woman Who Loves Giraffes"\nRoxie Theater @ 12:30 PM (83 min)\nAlison Reid // This film highlights Dr. Anne Dagg’s pioneering research on South African Giraffes and her tireless fight for gender equity.\n\n"Golden Fish, African Fish"\nLittle Roxie @ 1:00 PM (60 min)\nMoussa Diop, Thomas Grand // Fascinating life stories in one of the last areas of traditional fishing in West Africa, now facing massive change.\n\n"Silent Forests"\nLittle Roxie @ 3:15 PM (90 min)\nMariah Wilson // Tenacious conservationists fight to stop forest elephant poaching in Africa’s Congo Basin region.\n\n"Mossville: When Great Trees Fall"\nRoxie Theater @ 3:30 PM (76 min)\nAlexander Glustrom // One man standing in the way of a petrochemical plant expansion in his ancestral hometown refuses to give up.\n\n"Ay Mariposa"\nLittle Roxie @ 6:00 PM (57 min)\nKrista Schlyer // Advocates illustrate their fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty, and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.\n\n"Cooked: Survival by Zip Code" -- Centerpiece Presentation\nRoxie Theater @ 6:00 PM (82 min)\nJudith Helfand // A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster," and survival by zip code.\n\n"The Green Lie"\nLittle Roxie @ 8:00 PM (93 min)\nWerner Boote // Greenwashing experts explore how we can fight back against the dangerous lies of big business.\n\n"The Pollinators"\nRoxie Theater @ 8:30 PM (92 min)\nPeter Nelson // A cinematic journey about the current international bee crisis, what it means for our food security, and how we can improve it.\n\nABOUT: The San Francisco Green Film Festival\n\nLaunched in 2011, the San Francisco Green Film Festival is the West Coast's leading event for films & discussions about people and the planet. SF Green Film Festival is dedicated to screening compelling environmental films; connecting audiences to filmmakers and experts; and sparking green ideas & actions. Our signature program is the annual Green Film Fest and we also screen films and support filmmakers throughout the year.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/13/18826208.php SUMMARY:9th Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival (Day 5) LOCATION:518 Valencia FestHQ, 518 Valencia St. at 16th St., San Francisco, CA 94103\n\nManny's, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA\n\nRoxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (cross street: Valencia)\n\nLittle Roxie (two doors down), 3125 16th Street at Valencia\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/13/18826208.php DTSTART:20190928T200000Z DTEND:20190929T060000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR