| A Fierce Green Fire (100 min) USA |
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Director/Producer: Mark Kitchell
Description:
A Fierce Green Fire: A Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement—grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like E.O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy, A Fierce Green Fire chronicles the largest movement of the twentieth century and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future and succeeding against all odds. The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central story and character: David Brower and the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon, Lois Gibbs and Love Canal residents' struggle against 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals, Paul Watson and Greenpeace's campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals, Chico Mendes and Brazilian rubber tappers' fight to save the Amazon rainforest and Bill McKibben's twenty-five year effort to address the impossible issue—climate change. Surrounding these main stories are strands like environmental justice, return to the land and movements of the global south such as Wangari Maathai in Kenya. The film offers a deeper view of environmentalism as civilizational change, bringing our industrial society into sustainable balance with nature. It's the battle for a living planet. The film is narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep.
Biography:
Mark Kitchell is best known for Berkeley in the Sixties, which won the Sundance Audience Award in 1990. He was nominated for an Academy Award and won other top honors. Berkeley in the Sixties has become a well-loved classic, one of the defining documentaries about the protest movements of the 1960s. Kitchell went to NYU film school, where he made The Godfather Comes to Sixth St, a cinema verité look at his neighbors caught up in filming The Godfather II for which he received another (student) Academy Award nomination.
Contact Information:
e: mark@afiercegreenfirecom
w: www.afiercegreenfire.com
