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18 March 2009
EarthDance Environmental Film Festival Returns
Get Your Green On, Friday, April 3
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| Courtesy Earth Dance Film Festival |
The annual EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival returns to the Oakland Museum of California on Friday, April 3, 2009. The Festival is part of the museum’s First Fridays After Five, an after-hours program with live music, dancing, tours, and special events. All are included with museum admission.
This year’s EarthDance program (90 min.) includes films from Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S. Festival founder/director Zakary Zide will introduce the films and take Q&A after. The same program screens at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Zide has developed his one-night festival into a destination point for sustainability-minded filmmakers and filmgoers. “EarthDance is a showcase for environmental media,” he said. “It integrates art, nature, and science in new formats.”
The Festival’s juried compilation of 12 comedies, documentaries, mockumentaries, animations, thrillers, and high adventure prove that there is no need to sacrifice entertainment for ecology.
“EarthDance is the antithesis of dreary, politically correct polemics. Many of the films brilliantly employ humor and fantasy to instill hope about the downright serious state the human race has put itself in,” noted Jason Victor Serinus, East Bay Express, in 2007.
The Festival is included with museum admission. Seating goes quickly! Arrive early and enjoy First Fridays After Five. More program information at earthdancefilms.com or 510/701-4019.
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Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak @ 10th Street, in Oakland, is one block from the Lake Merritt BART. Museum hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 10 to 5; Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m.; first Friday of the month, 10 to 9. Admission is $8 for adults; $5 seniors and students with ID; free for members, City of Oakland employees, and kids five and under. Wells Fargo Second Sundays are free. Call 510/238-2200 or visit www.museumca.org for more information.
