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2010 National Tour of the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival: March 12 & 13, 7-10 pm

Join us at the Poinsettia Pavilion this March for two evenings of inspired, informative and innovative cinema, Friday & Saturday, March 12-13, 2010 from 7-10 pm.

Selections from the 2010 National Tour will be screened in a program of inspiring and educational films designed to motivate people to make a difference in their communities and around the world.

On Friday March 12 , the theme will be “Land,” and the program will feature youth in action. The Festival will open with the charming Lady Bug Swarm, a three-minute short film that focuses on the discovery of the magic of nature through the eyes of a child. Other highlights include Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops, featuring Chief Almir Surui working with the Google Earth Outreach team to train over 20 tribes in Amazonia to use the power of the Internet to preserve their land and culture. A Year in the Desert: Anza Borrego, presents a nearby but surprisingly exotic landscape filled with a dizzying array of creatures and topography. Year in the Desert filmmakers have won numerous Emmys for their work. A focal point of Friday’s program will be the screening of Brower Youth Award – Alec Loorz. This 2009 Earth Island Institute awardee is Ventura’s own Alec Loorz, a 15-year old El Camino High School student. Loorz won for his leadership in bringing attention to global warming. He will speak in person after the film’s screening.

The Saturday, March 13 program has been themed “Water,” and will feature eight films that explore this essential resource from different perspectives. In Big River, filmmakers travel to an Iowa cornfield on a mission to explore the farm’s impact on North America’s largest watershed as they canoe from the grain belt to the Mississippi Delta.

Ventura Hillsides Conservancy at Poinsettia Pavilion (805) 643-8044
Tickets on sale at Ventura Visitors Center. www.venturahillsides.org