A Creative Social Action Network

This year we launch the Active Cinema program, a dynamic effort to connect the dots between activist films, interested audiences and the individuals and organizations that are working for the causes and issues represented onscreen. These films have the potential to inspire, inform and transform. After Festival screenings, people often ask the question, What can we do? Active Cinema is our response to that question.  At the 2008 Festival, Active Cinema will include postscreening Q-and-A’s with filmmakers as well as many of the activists and actors featured in the films; co-presenting partnerships with local and national organizations; outreach screenings for school groups; and numerous live events. But it also goes well beyond this year’s Festival. ultimately, the California Film Institute plans to make these connections even more tangible through the development of a website (mvff.com/ActiveCinema.html), which will provide online resources, social networking capabilities and a library of activist films for audience members to access.

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Get Active

Turning ideas into deeds is what Active Cinema is all about. The following activities provide ways to roll up your sleeves and join the filmmakers, activists and others making a difference in our world.

TREE PLANTING
with Friends of the Urban Forest and Goodscapes
Saturday, October 4, 10:00 am
We will meet at Outdoor Art Club, and leave from there.

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai and Children of the Amazon both look at the importance of trees in our lives and for our communities. In honor of these films and their subjects, Wangari Maathai and the late Chico Mendes, come and help us plant trees! Location of planting to be announced.

CINEMASPORTS
Sunday, October 5, 9:00 am Intro Meeting
Old Mill Park, Mill Valley FREE
For details, see New Movies Lab

ACTIVE CINEMA ROUNDTABLE
Sunday, October 5, 1:00 pm
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley
For details, see New Movies Lab

See Films, Get Involved

There’s a world of inspiration in Active Cinema films. Please join us for Active Cinema screenings throughout the Festival, and help support the admirable work of filmmakers, special guests and the co-presenters partnering with us in the series. You’ll find links to their websites on the Active Cinema web page.

American Violet
By Tim Disney
Official Website

Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi
By Quique Cruz and Marilyn Mulford
Official Website

Burning the Future: Coal in America
By David Novack
Official Website

Call It Home: Searching for Truth on Bolinas Lagoon
By Bill Chayes and Chuck Olin
Official Website

Children of the Amazon
By Denise Zmekhol
Official Website
Presented in association with Amazon Action Team and Rainforest Action Network.

Explore:
India’s Song (And the Vanishing Art of Listening), No Child Is Born a Terrorist, Kokua Hawaii Foundation (featuring Jack Johnson)
By Charles Annenberg Weingarten
Official Website

Fire Under the Snow
By Makoto Sasa
Official Website
Presented in association with Bay Area Friends of Tibet.

Road to Ingwavuma
By Barbara Rick
Official Website
Presented in association with Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED).

Stolen
By Luis Mandoki

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
By Lisa Merton and Alan Dater
Official Website
Presented in association with Friends of the Urban Forest.

They Killed Sister Dorothy
By Daniel Junge
Official Website
Presented in association with Rain Forest Action Network.

Where the Water Meets the Sky
By David Eberts
Official Website
Presented in association with Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED).

Zimbabwe
By Darrell James Roodt
Official Website