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Wrenched (93 min) US |
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Saturday 10/18, 1:15 PM (Session 5)
Director: ML Lincoln
Producer: Vicki Day
Description:
Wrenched reveals how Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 70s and 80s. Through interviews, archival footage and reenactments, this documentary captures the outrage of Abbey's friends who were the original ecowarriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered monkeywrenching, a radical blueprint for wrenching the system.
Biography:
ML Lincoln has been an activist since her late teens on the East Coast. She attended film school in LA, and worked on productions at the American Film Institute. In the 90s, she worked at the University of Arizona's Center For Creative Photography and founded the acclaimed “More Exposure Project” which taught photography to at risk children. Her previous award-winning documentary film, Drowning River celebrates the environmental activism of 1950s starlet, Katie Lee. It tells the story of this feisty woman's fifty year battle against the Arizona politics and corporate agendas, which “murdered” her beloved Glen Canyon. The concept for the film grew out of Lincoln's concern for the massive disappearance of wilderness and the wild rivers in the West. The film has enjoyed festival success and has screened at the Taos Mountain Film Festival (Juror’s Honorable Mention), Aspen Shorts Film Festival, Sedona International Film Festival, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival (Honorable Mention), Topanga Film Festival, The Big Easy Film Festival, Telluride Mountain Film Festival and the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking Student Shorts Festival, where it received recognition as Best Picture and Best Director.
Contact Information:
ML Lincoln Films
e: vicki@wrenched-themovie.com
w: www.wrenched-themovie.com
©2014 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF)
