2009 Solar-Powered Film Series

Every night of the Series a segment from Brooklyn filmmaker Michelle Vey’s From Elegance to Earthworms was highlighted. This documentary looks at local businesses working toward a more sustainable New York.

Addicted to Plastic A feature-length documentary about solutions to plastic pollution encompassing three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The film details plastic's path over the last 100 years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability.
Guest Speakers: Michelle Vey, Producer & Director of From Elegance To Earthworms and Amanda Gentile, Co-Founder of Brooklyn Green Team

Flow: The Love Of Water Experts are calling the World Water Crisis the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century. This film presents the case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Guest Speaker: John Mundy, Project Manager, Majora Carter Group

Who Killed the Electric Car In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline Ten years later, these cars were destroyed. Learn more in this critically acclaimed documentary.
Guest Speaker: David Turock, Transportation expert and Chairman of Northern Lights Aviation. Two Electric Cars will also be on display

A Sea Change To focus public attention on ocean acidification, film maker Sven Huseby embarks on a picturesque odyssey that leads him to small fishing villages whose cash crop is at risk, native communities whose way of life is being threatened, activists working to combat the crisis, and individuals who are changing their lifestyles to make a difference at the most local level.
Guest Speakers: Angela Alston, Outreach Coordinator for A Sea Change and Bärbel Hönisch, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

The Garden The Garden follows the plight of the farmers who care for a fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods but are now challenged by bulldozers are poised to level their oasis.
Guest Speaker: Stacey Murphy, founder bk farmyards

Burning the Sun - WORLD PREMIERE!
26-year-old Daniel Dembele decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels – the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. Burning in the Sun tells the story of Daniel’s journey growing the shaky startup into a viable company, and of the business’ impact on Daniel’s first customers in the tiny village of Banko. Taking controversial stances on climate change, poverty, and African self-sufficiency, the film explores what it means to grow up as a man, and what it takes to prosper as a nation.
Guest Speaker: Cambria Matlow is a founding filmmaker of Birdgirl Productions and Co-Director of Burning In The Sun.