3rd Annual EARTH FOCUS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL Goes Virtual with Films & Discussions Inspiring Positive Change for the Planet Presented by KCET, PBS SoCal and Link TV

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
March 25, 2021

PBS SoCal and KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS stations, together with nationwide unbiased satellite network Url Television, now declared the return of the third yearly EARTH Emphasis ENVIRONMENTAL Movie Competition, the only festival of its variety in Los Angeles, going virtual this year from April twelve-23, 2021. The two-week festival capabilities film screenings and Q&A conversations addressing climate transform realities with the goal of confronting international challenges that effect all residing creatures and all-natural methods. The West Coast premiere of “Playing With Sharks,” acquired by Countrywide Geographic Documentary Movies at the 2021 Sundance Movie Competition, will kick off the lineup as the Opening Evening film on Monday, April twelve at seven p.m. A submit-screening panel dialogue with author/director Sally Aitken (The Week The Ladies Went, The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Prepare dinner), creator/producer Bettina Dalton (Large Purple: The Kangaroo King, Borneo’s Mystery Kingdom) and the issue of the film, Australian groundbreaking marine conservationist, cinematographer and renowned shark pro Valerie Taylor will be moderated by KCET CINEMA Sequence host and Deadline main film critic Pete Hammond.

Normal admission tickets for the EARTH Emphasis ENVIRONMENTAL Movie Competition are out there setting up now. Ticket solutions consist of a $45 all-entry move to attend all nine of the virtual film screenings and submit screening conversations having place on the Eventive system (the three-part, Earth Working day April 22nd PBS particular GRETA THUNBERG: A Calendar year TO Adjust THE World is out there on-air on PBS SoCal locally as perfectly as streaming stay online at pbs.org and on the cost-free PBS App). Alternatively, $ten person screenings can be procured on any of the three web sites at pbssocal.org/efeff, kcet.org/efeff and linktv.org/efeff.

Notable friends and movies featured in this year’s slate of environmental-themed documentaries consist of Patagonia Films’ “Public Have faith in: The Fight for America’s Public Lands” on Thurs., April 15, from govt producers Yvon Chouinard and actor-turned-environmental activist Robert Redford, which investigates impending threats on America’s general public lands. The film will also air locally as part of EARTH Emphasis Presents on Wed., April 21 at 9 p.m. on Url Television and Solar., April 25 at five p.m. on KCET. Director David Garrett Byars and Producer Jeremy Rubingh will join the virtual panel dialogue. The Closing Evening film on Fri., April 23 is the California Premiere of the ninety-moment 2020 Swedish film “Citizen Nobel” that follows Chemistry Nobel Prize recipient Jacques Dubochet and how he, as a ‘noble citizen,’ should really fulfill his duty as a researcher and as a human getting. A panel will adhere to with both of those Dubochet and director Stéphane Goël.

The festival will also host KCET’s own ninety-moment documentary from EARTH Emphasis “The New West and the Politics of the Environment” which explores how iconic Nevada Senator Harry Reid established the foundations for a environmentally friendly new deal in the state using electricity in new approaches to settle water wars with regard for Native Individuals, protect endangered species and usher in a just transition to renewable vitality. “The New West and the Politics of the Environment” is co-created by the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Techniques (LENS) at UCLA.

The EARTH Emphasis ENVIRONMENTAL Movie Competition encourages better understanding of and dialogue on environmental challenges, and motivates audiences to create constructive transform in their own community. The festival extends general public media’s mission of strengthening communities by schooling. The virtual celebration engages customers, viewers of all ages, influencers and media although boosting cash to help general public media’s long run environmental programming.

The celebration complements PBS SoCal, Url Television and KCET’s complete slate of Earth Month programming which incorporates the award-successful collection EARTH Emphasis, created in partnership with the Thomson Reuters Basis. Considering that its debut in 2007, EARTH Emphasis has become the longest-working investigative environmental news collection on U.S. television, supplying audiences with urgent area and international environmental coverage that spotlights in-depth experiences on key challenges such as endangered species, climate transform, environmental overall health and sustainable procedures.

Initial information connected to Earth Month programming on connected matters ranging from environmental justice to climate activism will be out there on the PBS SoCal, KCET and Url Television web sites. Contributors will consist of veteran environmental journalists and other industry experts. Furthermore, web site readers will be handled to multimedia capabilities as perfectly as trailers to the movies in the EARTH Emphasis ENVIRONMENTAL Movie Competition.

Competition program is as follows (*issue to transform):

OPENING Evening! Playing With Sharks – Mon., April twelve at seven p.m. (West Coast Premiere)

The amazing lifetime story of groundbreaking scuba diver Valerie Taylor, a fearless marine maverick whose passion for sharks is aware of no bounds – even when there should really be. Taylor has focused her lifetime to exposing the myth encompassing the worry of sharks. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Writer/Director Sally Aitken Creator/Producer Bettina Dalton and the issue of the film, Australian groundbreaking marine conservationist, cinematographer and renowned shark pro Valerie Taylor. Moderated by KCET CINEMA Sequence Host and Deadline main film critic Pete Hammond.

Assemble – Tues., April 13 at seven p.m.

An personal portrait of the expanding movement amongst Native Individuals to reclaim their religious, political and cultural identities by foodstuff sovereignty, although battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Director Sanjay Rawal, Producer Tanya Mellier and Founder of the Native American Culinary Association Nephi Craig. Moderated by DeLanna Studi (Creative Director, Native Voices at the Autry, Autry Museum of the American West).

2040: The Regeneration – Weds., April fourteen at seven p.m.

Embark on a journey to explore what the long run could search like by the year 2040 if we just embraced the finest alternatives currently out there to us to improve our earth and shifted them fast into the mainstream. Structured as a visible letter to his four-year-outdated daughter, the film blends traditional documentary with dramatized sequences and high-stop visible consequences to create a eyesight board of how alternatives could regenerate the planet for long run generations. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Award-successful Director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Movie). Moderated by TBA

Public Have faith in: The Fight for America’s Public Lands – Thurs., April 15 at seven p.m.

As America’s technique of general public lands facial area unprecedented threats, the film investigates three heated conflicts – nationwide monument in the Utah desert, a mine in the Boundary Waters and oil drilling in the Arctic Countrywide Wildlife Refuge—and tends to make a circumstance for their ongoing protection. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Director David Garrett Byars, Producer Jeremy Rubingh and investigative journalist and Public Have faith in narrator Hal Herring. Moderated by Url TV’s Senior Programming Govt Kim Spencer.

Okavango – Fri., April 16 at seven p.m.

F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Homeland) narrates the wild encounter of the Okavango Delta, an unlikely oasis and lush paradise in Southern Africa that connects and supports a extensive array of creatures. In episode just one of this three-part collection that premiered as episodes of NOVA, viewers explore the landscape and wildlife of the Higher Okavango River. A lioness seriously hurt by a buffalo is remaining for useless by her satisfaction. Now handicapped, she has to endure in the swamp on your own, searching to feed her cubs. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Directors Dereck and Beverly Joubert (Eternal Enemies, Eye of the Leopard, Final Lions, Reflections on Elephants). Moderated by TBA

EARTH Emphasis: The New West and the Politics of the Atmosphere – Mon., April 19 at seven p.m.

Legendary Nevada Senator Harry Reid established the foundations for a environmentally friendly new deal in the state using electricity in new approaches to settle water wars with regard for Native Individuals, protect endangered species and usher in a just transition to renewable vitality. Reid cast allegiances amongst unlikely allies and crafted plan to increase the economy of his household state although guarding its wilderness and in the approach, redefined the long run of the West. The discussion instantly adhering to the screening is courtesy of the Environmental Movie Competition in the Nation’s Funds (DCEFF). Featuring Q&A Attendees: U.S. Senator Harry Reid, Creator Adam Jentleson (Eliminate Switch: The Rise of the Fashionable Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy) and Senior Field Director of the Conservation Lands Basis Jocelyn Torres. Moderated by Govt Producer Jon Christensen.

The Human Aspect – Tues., April twenty at seven p.m.

Renowned environmental photographer James Balog explores wildfires, hurricanes, sea amount increase, a battling coal mining community and our modifying air source. The film highlights Individuals on the entrance traces of climate transform, inspiring us to re-consider our romantic relationship with the all-natural planet. Featuring Q&A Guest: Environmental Photographer James Balog. Moderated by Co-Host/Correspondent of “The California Report” Saul Gonzalez. “The California Report,” created by KQED/NPR is the Golden State’s day by day general public news show broadcast on general public radio stations throughout California.

Youth v Gov. – Weds., April 21 at seven p.m.

Considering that 2015, twenty-just one plaintiffs, now ages 13 to 24, have been suing the U.S. government for violating their constitutional legal rights to lifetime, liberty, individual security and assets by their willful actions in building the climate disaster they will inherit. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Filmmaker & Scientist Christi Cooper, Co-Direct Counsel Phil Gregory, Alaskan Federal Plaintiff Nathan Baring. Moderated by the Director of Programming for the Environmental Movie Competition in the Nation’s Funds (DCEFF) Brad Forder.

EARTH Working day 2021! Greta Thunberg: A Calendar year to Adjust the World– three Element PBS Special On-Air Celebration – Thurs., April 22 from 8-eleven p.m. on PBS SoCal (Look at area listings or stream stay on PBS.org and the Free of charge PBS App) **No Eventive Celebration**

Journey with Greta Thunberg as she requires her struggle to a international phase in this three-part, on-air celebration. In Element Just one she sees impacts of climate transform at three spots: melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada, and fireplace devastation in California. And when a UN convention moves to Madrid, she sails throughout the ocean through lifetime-threatening storms. Element Two follows Greta’s journey from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to Poland, where by she speaks with miners who have missing their work opportunities. She also visits the United kingdom, where by she meets with just one of her inspirations — Sir David Attenborough. Element Three requires Greta to Switzerland and Denmark to look into opportunity alternatives to limit climate transform and seems to be for lessons from the world’s reaction to COVID-19.

CLOSING Evening! Citizen Nobel – Fri., April 23 at seven p.m. (California Premiere)

When Jacques Dubochet receives the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, his lifetime alterations. Out of the shadows and into the light-weight, he is out of the blue contacted from all sides. What can he do with his voice, which is now heard by all people? How should really he, as a ‘noble citizen’, fulfill his duty as a researcher and human getting? A speech by Greta Thunberg turns everything upside down. Featuring Q&A Attendees: Director Stéphane Goël and Nobel Prize Winner and issue of the film Jacques Dubochet. Moderated by KCET Must SEE Movies host and Deadline main film critic Pete Hammond.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EARTH Emphasis is supported by generous institutional funders. The EARTH Emphasis collection was produced by Raisa Scriabine.

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