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Two looks at the future of urban farming

Farming the Future: Farm Life on Long Island
and
Homegrown
Green Screens
Monday, Nov. 3, 6:00 p.m.

A panel with filmmakers Robert Rudaitis and Robert McFalls, producer Sarah Rudaitis, and the founders of Long Island’s Garden of Eve Farm, Chris and Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht, will follow the screening. A reception will follow the event, where fresh, organic produce will be on sale.


Farming the Future: Farm Life on Long Island
Ron Rudaitis, USA, 2006; 57m
In 1950, Long Island had nearly 3,000 farms. In 2005, there were only 700. The Long Island families who continue the farming tradition today are like many across the country, fighting to stay on their land under the onslaught of expanding suburbs and the pressures that development brings. Long Island farms add $150 million annually to the economy, but the farmers still struggle to find ways to pass on their way of life to future generations.

SCREENING WITH
Homegrown
Robert McFalls, USA, 2008; 52m
The Dervaes family moved to Pasadena, Calif., in the mid-’80s and lived like any other suburban American family—until they transformed their lawn and garden into a working organic farm. Living off the grid, they make their own food and bio-diesel, get electricity from solar panels and sell produce to local restaurants. Homegrown is an intimate portrait of an unusual family, modern-day pioneers in an urban setting.

AND
The Fridge
Lucie Stamsfestova, Czech Republic, 2007; 7m
Leftovers in the fridge. Science project or global warming?

PSA
AirBear
Tim Godsell, USA, 2008; 1m.
The Advertising Council, in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund and Ogilvy New York. Sculptures by Joshua Allen Harris.


Special thanks to Heritage Foods USA for their support.

Discover more about Farming the Future and Homegrown.



The Film Society’s Green Screens program addresses through film the vital environmental concerns of global warming, the safety of our food supply, sustainable living, and more. Each screening includes a discussion and reception with artists and expert commentators, where we invite non-profit organizations and others to provide materials and raise awareness of the many positive actions we can all take. Green Screens is programmed by Sharon Bahus, Isa Cucinotta and Marian Masone.

In addition to this series, the Film Society screens PSAs showcasing climate change, sustainability and other matters concerning the health of our planet and its inhabitants. We are one of the first movie theaters in the country to regularly screen such PSAs and we encourage other theaters to join us.







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Mon Nov 3: 6*
*Post-screening Q&A followed by a reception in the Furman Gallery

Admission
$11 public
$8 senior (62+)
$7 Film Society member & student (w/ID), child (6-­12, accompanied by adult)

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