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June 23-24, 2017

Solution-Oriented Action Based Films

In Partnership with Earth Day TX
Snowmass Village Town Hall

This event is free and open to the public.

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Power

Directed by Michele Ohayon and Alexis Spraic
Produced by Mark David, Michele Ohayon, Rob Levy, Vartan Sarkissian
Shot across 5 continents with stunning visuals, personal human stories and insights from leading energy executives, government ministers, and entrepreneurs, POWER tackles the ambitious questions and complex geopolitics surrounding the energy industry today.

Power is the electrical and mechanical energy that makes our lives possible. However, over 1.2 billion people around the world have no access to electricity. This lack of power causes a vicious cycle of poverty, low life expectancy and level of education. How to ensure that everyone has access to energy is perhaps the single greatest question for humanity today.

Power is also the possession of control, authority or influence over others. Those who control the energy sources and infrastructure control our world. Governments and energy companies, through their policies and practices, and often in collusion with each other, determine everything from the quality of the air we breathe to the price of food and heat. Our relationship with every country is defined in terms of our energy needs and most wars and conflicts have this at their source.

By definition, our energy sources in the long run must be sustainable or we will face the inevitable possibility that it is in fact the human race itself that is not sustainable. We, the consumers and voters, have the power to change the energy system and in doing so change the world. Tomorrow’s energy system can be affordable, apolitical, clean and renewable.

POWER was filmed in a dozen countries to highlight that the only viable solutions must exist on a global scale. POWER is more than an attempt to raise awareness; it is a call to action. This story is brought to life by two award-winning directors, a score by a Golden Globe winning composer, and an original song by Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo.

Racing Extinction

Director: Louie Psihoyos (1 hr 34 min)
Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, Oscar®-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that expose issues of endangered species and mass extinction.

Whether infiltrating notorious black markets with guerilla-style tactics or exploring the scientific causes affecting changes to the environment, Racing Extinction will change the way we see the world and our role within it. (Sunday, June 19 @ 10am)

Racing Extinction

Director: Louie Psihoyos (1 hr 34 min)
Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, Oscar®-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that expose issues of endangered species and mass extinction.

Whether infiltrating notorious black markets with guerilla-style tactics or exploring the scientific causes affecting changes to the environment, Racing Extinction will change the way we see the world and our role within it. (Sunday, June 19 @ 10am)

We the People 2.0

Director: Leila Conners (1 hr 30 min)
American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the only way to survive is to frontally challenge the oligarchy that has destroyed democracy in the United States. From the director of The 11th Hour, Leila Conners. Narrated by Walton Goggins. (Sunday, June 19 @ 8:30pm)

Written on Water

Director: Merri Lisa Trigilio (58 min)
Against the immense, harsh landscape of the High Plains, innovators in places like Olton, Texas fight to keep their towns alive against the decline of the life-giving Ogallala Aquifer. Here and in other communities sharing the Ogallala, the reality of groundwater decline is colliding with the legacy of independence and self-reliance that first turned the High Plains into a fertile dreamscape. (Sunday, June 19 @ 4pm)

Stop the Burning

Director: Jeff Horowitz (8 min – short)
Narrated by Dr. Jane Goodall, the goal of this project was to craft a collective narrative from interviews of 30 global leaders from government, civil society and business sectors – all making the case that deforestation must stop immediately if we are to protect our planet from the grim realities of climate change. (Sunday, June 19 @ 8pm)

Dear President Obama
The Clean Energy Revolution Is Now

Director: Jon Bowermaster
Narrated by actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, the film is a direct appeal to President Obama as he shapes his environmental legacy, but it is also a very loud shout-out to every elected official in the country to carefully consider the growing evidence that proves that leaving fossil fuels in the ground is the only reasonable energy path forward. (Monday, June 20 @ 8pm)

American Epic: Out Of The Many The One

Director: Bernard MacMahon
Narrated by Robert Redford, “Out Of The May, the One” is the third film in the much anticipated episodic work American Epic, that takes us on a journey across time to the birth of modern music—a moment when the musical strands of a diverse nation were first collected and combined, sparking a cultural revolution that forever transformed the future of music and the world.

Brought to you by Executive Producers, T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White, this film celebrates the myriad threads of America’s musical tapestry: Hopi priests travel to Washington to defend their sacred snake dance; an eleven-year-old Hawaiian boy invents the steel guitar; a teenage tejana shakes the border with a ferocious feminist tango learned from a gum wrapper; the fightingest frères on the bayou turn a lament for a pretty blonde into the Cajun national anthem; and a gentle Delta farmer sings a nostalgic song of his hometown in the cold of a New York winter and inspires the greatest rediscovery of the ’60s folk revival. Featuring Mississippi John Hurt, Taj Mahal, the Hopi Indian Chanters, Joseph Kekuku, Lydia Mendoza, the Breaux Frères, Cyril Pahinui and Louis Michot.

Created by Allison McGourty, Bernard MacMahon and Duke Erikson, this not-to-be-missed film speaks volumes of the diverse and eclectic American creative spirit. This special event will feature an introduction and Q&A with writer and producer Allison McGourty and musician Taj Mahal.
(Wednesday, June 22 @ 8:30pm)

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2015 IMPACT FILM Festival Highlights

Each AREDAY Summit delivers a full day of the most impactful environmental and thought provoking films of the current year. 2015 featured the award winning film Racing Extinction by Louie Psihoyos who won an Oscar for his 2009 film The Cove.

Last Rush for the Wild West
Tar Sands, Oil Shale and the American Frontier

Director: Jennifer Ekstrom
Last Rush for the Wild West exposes how impending tar sands and oil shale mining would destroy massive landscapes in Utah and put the already imperiled Colorado River Watershed at risk. Utah has approved the USA’s precedent setting tar sands mine despite widespread health impacts of similar projects in northern Canada. This film asserts that the risks are not worth it, while refuting claims that tar sands and oil shale mining would create better economic conditions and lead our nation toward energy independence. Last Rush raises the collective voices of Utah citizens along with indigenous elders in Canada as they call for an end of the practice.

The Future of Energy
Lateral Power to the People

Director: Brett Mazurek
The Future of Energy is a powerful documentary that captures the movement across the Unites States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift. It’s a positive film about the renewable energy revolution, and a love story about the countless individuals and communities that are re-imagining their relationship with the planet and with each other.

ROOTED in PEACE

Director: Greg Reitman
ROOTED in PEACE challenges viewers to examine their values as Americans and human beings. Today we are at war within ourselves, with our environment, and with the world. Director and award-winning filmmaker Greg Reitman invites viewers on a film journey to take notice of the world we live in, proactively seek ways to find personal and ecological peace, and stop the cycle of violence. The film relies not only on memoir, but also interviews with such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love, and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Noble Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, media mogul Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, green architect William McDonough, neuroscientist Dan Siegel and many others. Reitman learns from all of them, and heeds Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s words, that if the forest is to be green, every tree must be green; if there’s going to be Peace on earth, then everybody needs to experience that quality of Peace within themselves. And so in asking viewers to do the same, Reitman poses the basic question: How do we want to live? Reitman’s journey is an example of transformation — how one person can learn to make the necessary changes to enjoy a better life — and in so doing inspire others to want to improve their own lives, and society as a whole.

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