[SBIMC-general] [hd-films-sb] New FiLMs: November & December in SLO AND SBarbara

[Jon Sullivan]

*HopeDance FiLMs*
*/November & December, 2007/*
*www.hopedance.org*
*544-9663*
*all screenings are at the SLO Public Library*
*Osos & Palm Streets*
*FLYER attached*
*more details are at our website*
*www.hopedance.org*

What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire 
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, is a feature length 
documentary film by Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson about a middle class 
white class white guy who makes an effort to come to grips with Peak 
Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot, and the 
demise of the American Lifestyle. Interviewees include Thomas Berry, 
Jerry Mander, Daniel Quinn, William Catton, Derrick Jensen, Chellis 
Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Richard Manning and Ran Prieur, and 
others. Tim Bennett, middle-class white guy, started waking up to the 
global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy 
with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got 
around to acting on his concerns. Until now…

 “Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its twenty- 
first century human and non-human condition.” Carolyn Baker, 
www.carolynbaker.org <http://www.carolynbaker.org> 

“Perhaps the most important media message of our time.” Jan Lundberg at 
CultureChange.org

“Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be 
read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be 
delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the 
point to have “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire” seen in 
every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this 
documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by 
awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable.” 
— Daniel Quinn

None [of the peak oil films I have seen] has moved me so much as this 
one. While it does include some facts and figures, it primarily deals 
with the human psyche—the emotional and spiritual pain experienced by 
those living in, or victims of, industrially civilized countries. It 
builds a deep emotional and spiritual connection between the viewer and 
the planet on which we live, and the fellow creatures of all forms with 
whom we share life on this planet. It becomes clear that the suffering 
we experience as humans is shared by the entire biosphere. Because of 
the beliefs which have entrapped us, we are alienated not only from 
nature, but from each other and, indeed, from our true internal nature. 
What we have done to our planet we have also done to ourselves. — From 
Mick Winter’s review at www.DryDipstick.com <http://www.DryDipstick.com>.

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/ (or see trailer at www.hopedance.org 
<http://www.hopedance.org>)
Sunday, Dec 2, 4:30pm in Santa Barbara
Friday, Nov 9, 7pm in San Luis Obispo
Suggested donation of $10.


KING CORN 
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, 
and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, 
Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, 
move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the 
help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful 
herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s 
most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But 
when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what 
they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

King Corn is penetrating and graceful, an uproariously funny and 
unexpectedly moving look at America’s food supply, and especially at the 
massive corn-farming operations that have come to dominate the placid 
landscapes of the American Midwest. - The Daily Page