Environmental Film Festival:
Love learning about the environment? Spent hours captivated by the footage from Planet Earth? Here's your chance to delve deeper into the world of environmental film. The Environmental Film Festival rolls into D.C. this week (in hybrid cars, of course).
A look at the numbers indicates that this is no haphazard, semi-serious festival. 141 films will be shown at over 50 venues. 24,000 filmgoers are expected, including the 50 filmmakers and 72 special guests on hand. The spotlight this year, which is the festival's 17th, is on the ocean, which is less known than the surface of the moon. Films look at the ocean itself, the creatures that inhabit it, and the environments found within it.
But the focus isn't solely on the ocean. Other film topics include organic restaurants, the rapid dissappearance of bees, and the need to protect and diversify food sources. A retrospective on 11 environmentally-oriented films by Werner Herzog rounds out the screenings. This year, there's also an increased focus on going green, with talks on toxins, dealing with global climate change, and environmentally-conscious filmmaking.
The festival runs from March 11th - 22nd.
For information regarding times, locations and tickets, visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org.
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