Bag It – is your life too plastic? Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival
WHAT: Bag It - is your life too plastic?, Bottom of the River, Feel What They Feel.
Rated PG. Filmmakers in attendance.
WHEN: Saturday, October 16, 1pm
WHERE: Al Green Theatre at Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Ave.
TICKETS: https://tytix.tiff.net/scripts/max/10.17.40.32-45000/maxweb.exe
Co-Presented Program with Anarres Natural Health –
Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival is Canada’s largest and longest running environmental media arts film festival, showcasing outstanding, artistic and compelling films and videos covering a broad range of environmental themes by Canadian and international filmmakers in a wide variety of formats.
This year, our Festival takes place October 13-17, 2010 across the City of Toronto. We will be screening 100+ films related to social justice, energy, health, water, food, species conservation – the most pressing issues facing our planet, and the most innovative solutions.
Ticket info: Regular $12, Student/Senior $10, Groups of 10 or more receive 10% discount. To purchase:
1. Call 416-968-FILM(3456),
2. Visit www.planetinfocus.org, https://tytix.tiff.net/scripts/max/10.17.40.32-45000/maxweb.exe
3. Go in person at TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. West or at venue for same-day tickets.
Bag It - is your life too plastic?
Suzan Beraza
USA, 2010, 78 min.
Documentary
Canadian Premiere
A charismatic father-to-be sets out to discover the sobering implications of the
number one consumer item in the world – the plastic bag.
Bag It Intro from Suzan Beraza on Vimeo.
Screening with:
Bottom of the River
Alasdair Brotherston, Jock Mooney
UK/ Canada, 2009, 3 min.
Toronto Premiere
As garbage is dumped into a dirty river, The Tom Fun Orchestra poses the
question of “What has the world come to?” in this animated music video with a
very catchy tune.
Feel What They Feel
Chin Tangsakulsathaporn
USA/ Thailand, 2010, 3 min.
Experimental
World Premiere
Call it ‘method axing’, filmmaker Chin Tangsakulsathaporn urges us to cut out
our rampant use of plastic bags by recreating the plastic-infested habitat in which
many animals live.
Screening: Saturday, October 16, 1pm, Al Green Theatre at Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Ave. Rated PG. Filmmakers in attendance.