Attend: Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival
Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8, at various campus and downtown venues.
For complete schedule, visit: http://nelson.wisc.edu/tales/
Once again this year the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment will present the Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival from Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8 at venues including Union South’s Marquee Theater, 4070 Vilas Hall, the Chazen Museum, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
The theme for this year’s Festival is “belief,” as explained at the Festival’s website:
Belief. Grounded in religion and experience, spirituality and science, beliefs profoundly shape environmental perceptions, understandings, and action. Our 2015 festival highlights the subject of belief, curated around five themes: resilience, sacrifice, retreat, belonging, and knowledge. The 2015 roster includes films set on six different continents and over 20 countries, with genres from documentary to drama — and even musicals: both an opera and a rap film. Joining us will be filmmakers, activists, and scholars exploring the intersections of faith, science, and the environment from all over the world.
The most comprehensive local coverage of this year’s Festival can be found in Chris Lay’s survey of the schedule at Tone Madison.
Highlights for this year’s Festival include the participation of Godfrey Reggio, director of Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and other ecological visual essays. Reggio will participate in Friday’s opening night roundtable discussion, “The Power of Belief,” along with environmental academics and activists. Friday’s roundtable will begin at 7:00pm in the Union South Marquee Theater.
The opening night ends with a screening of the 2013 documentary Cesar’s Last Fast at 9:00pm, also in the Marquee Theater. The film examines farm labor activist Cesar Chavez’s 36-day “Fast for Life” in 1988.