EARTH DAYS
100 minutes / 2009 / USA
Director: Robert Stone
Speaker:TBD
Ticket: $25 Includes:
- Closing night gala film screening
- Speaker
- After party at Piato with complimentary appetizers and wine by Barefoot.

*** Closing film for the Sundance Film Festival 2009 ***

EARTH DAYS is a feature length documentary about the origins of the modern environmental movement told through the eyes of nine Americans who were inspired to act on what they believed was the most important challenge facing mankind. The film features active participants representing a diverse cross section of life and politics. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins, biologist Paul Ehrlich, former Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, and Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart are among the people highlighted. Each reflects on their awakening to an environmental crisis, and the unprecedented movement that grew out of their response to that crisis. Earth Days examines both the groundbreaking achievements and missed opportunities of a decade of activism. "What we were trying to do is to create a brand new public consciousness that would cause the rules of the game to change—it was wild and exciting and out of control—and the sort of thing that lets you know you've got something big happening." —Denis Hayes, National Coordinator, Earth Day

SPEAKER: Jamie Biggar is a climate change organizer and researches ecological governance at the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance. He primarily works with youth and has co-founded several student-led climate change initiatives including Common Energy and the BC Campus Climate Network. He is both the Chair-Elect of the Sierra Club of BC and a member of the BC government's Citizen's Conservation Council for Vancouver Island.