Environmental Film Festival @ Gala Sunday
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On Sunday, the last day of the Environmental Film Festival, Teatro Gala hosts two films about sustainability issues facing Latin America.
Within the Rivers, Among the Trees (No meio do rio, entre as árvores)
Filmmaker Jorger Bodansky ventured into the Amazonian jungle to make contact and visit with 35 indigenous communities whose only access to the outside world is the Amazon River. Facing new social and environmental pressures from the world beyond the river, these people are fighting to maintain harmony with the land they call home. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
The Carbon Rush
In its Washington, D.C. premiere, the 2012 Canadian film, “The Carbon Rush,” examines incinerators that burn garbage in India; hydroelectric dams in Panama, biogas extraction from palm oil in Honduras, and eucalyptus forests harvested to make charcoal in Brazil. All are receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else in the world.
This film takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. Their voices have gone unheard in the noise surrounding the multi-billion dollar carbon industry, nicknamed “green gold” by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support themselves. Dozens of campesinos have been assassinated. Traveling across four continents and making the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism, this documentary presents the true cost of carbon trading and shows who stands to gain and who stands to lose. Narrated by Daryl Hannah. Directed and written by Amy Miller. Produced by Amy Miller and Byron A. Martin.
Sunday, Mar. 24.
Within the Rivers starts at noontime, followed by The Carbon Rush at 2 p.m.
Teatro GALA
3333 14th St. NW
https://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
Free/gratis
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