“Choose Your Own Eco-Adventure” – create your own customized schedule from select films and speakers, for Middle School and High School

OVER TROUBLED WATER

9:15 – 10:00 am  •  Grades 7 – 12

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Many Californians have heard of “The Delta”. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the largest on the West Coast of the Americas and a national treasure. But its very wealth is under attack for its water, land, recreation and wildlife. Particularly now, in the fourth year of a state-wide drought, the Delta’s water is prey to corruption and short-sightedness. (45 min)

TOPIC: The California Delta | water use

NORTH OF THE SUN

9:25 – 10:30 am •  Grades 7 – 12

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The two protagonists in this documentary about surfing and ocean trash exhibit the kind of spirit and energy it will take to save the planet. Filmmakers Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (28) decide to spend a whole nine months on the cold and remote Norwegian coast surfing and snow boarding, living off the land. They also collected three tons of trash from the beach that was lifted out by helicopters. A fun and inspiring look at being an earth activist. In Norwegian with English subtitles (45 min plus speaker)

TOPIC: Adventure | Eco Activism | Plastic in the oceans

ART EXHIBIT: CLIMATE CHANGE

Three half-hour tours to choose from:
11:00-11:30
1:40-2:10
2:15-2:45

50 people maximum capacity for each time slot
To sign up for the Artworks tour, please email: mnichols@cafilm.org

As a special part of EYF this year, and in partnership with Artworks Downtown, we invite teachers to sign up for a docent lead tour of these special artworks juried by April Minnich-Bucksbaum of the Baum Foundation.

This group exhibition aims to inspire stewardship of the planet by showcasing artists’ visions of adaptation and responses to the changing environment.

Climate Change extends beyond the main exhibition to include over four support exhibitions, presentations by government agencies for climate change adaptation, participation from local schools in collaboration from the California Film Institute.

ArtWorks Downtown is located just two short blocks from the Rafael.

PANEL: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

10:20 – 11:35 am 

Panelists: Goldman Prize chronicler Will Parrinello of The Mill Valley Film Group; Ryan Camero, 2015 Brower Youth Award Winner and part of Restore the Delta organization; Ryan Jensen, from Community Water Center in Tulare County; Andres Soto, Community for a Better Environment and members of Conservation Corps North Bay. Moderator: Jodie NewDelman, Psy.D.

The panel is preceded by short films on Goldman Prize winners — fighters for environmental justice. (65 min)

RACING EXTINCTION

11:00 am – 12:35 pm  •  Grades 7 – 12

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world’s most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction, Racing Extinction reveals stunning, never-before seen images that truly change the way we see the world. (95 min plus speaker)


TOPIC
: The hidden world of species extinction

THE E-WASTE TRAGEDY

12:50 – 2:20 pm  •  Grades 7 – 12

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By the director of last year’s excellent EYF film, The Lightbulb Conspiracy, The E-Waste Tragedy takes us on an investigative tour of China, Africa and the US to uncover some alarming complicity between industry and governments to pollute the planet as cheaply as possible in a toxic global trade. (90 min plus speaker)


TOPIC
: Global electronic waste

MARIN SANITARY SERVICE | MARIN RECYCLING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY

Local, family owned and operated business that has served the community since 1948. We believe in the power of recycling to conserve our natural resources.  We provide curbside recycling, solid waste, yard waste and food scraps hauling, safe household hazardous waste disposal and many other services that are helping to achieve Marin County’s goal of zero waste.

NUCLEAR FREE CALIFORNIA NETWORK | ECOLOGICAL OPTIONS NETWORK

More than 60 California  anti-nuclear groups committed to work towards a nuclear-free California . We envision an energy efficient world, powered by clean, renewable technologies, free from dirty, dangerous, costly nuclear power and its legacy of toxic waste.

RESTORE THE DELTA

Our mission is to save the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary for our children and future generations. Restore the Delta works in the areas of public education and outreach so that all Californians recognize the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta as part of California’s natural heritage, deserving of restoration.

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