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Environmental Film Festival: "Truck Farm"
When
- Thursday
- Feb. 23, 2012
- 7:00 PM
Description
Truck Farm is a whimsical, musically-narrated, documentary film about urban agriculture. Filmmaker Ian Cheney planted a 1/1000th-acre farm in the back of his 1986 Dodge pick-up-truck in the spring of 2009, after coming to New York City and lacking any other place of his own to grow food. Using green-roof materials, heirloom seeds, and a healthy dose of optimism and humor, Ian created a mobile community farm that yielded a wide range of vegetables and led to the discovery and exploration of other creative, quirky, community-based agriculture efforts all over the city. The film will be introduced by Professor Kip Curtis and the Eckerd College organic gardeners. Screenings will be held in The Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium and are free and open to the public. All programs begin at 7 p.m. Each program will feature an opportunity for audience questions immediately after the program. For fourteen years, the Environmental Film Festival has brought compelling and important films to the Tampa Bay area and the Eckerd College community in order to raise awareness and promote discussion of questions relating to nature, place, and the environment. Film scholars and filmmakers from around the world engage the audience in lively discussions of the environmental perspectives contained in documentary, animated, experimental and feature films.
Website
Phone
727-864-7979
events@eckerd.edu
Where
Tags
community , art , gardening , sustainability , film , visual art , environmental
