AC focus on environment
View(s):On theme of environment, American Center, Colombo will screen ‘the 11th Hour’, a 2007 documentary film, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment at 6 pm on April 22. Directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures.
Premiered at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival, the film was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published and about a year after Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, another film documentary about global warming. ‘Dirt! The Movie’ a 2009 American documentary film directed by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis will be screened on April 29.
Inspired by the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan, the film explores the relationship between humans and soil, including its necessity for human life and impacts by society. Dirt! The Movie was an official nominee for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and winner of several awards is an astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet.
It won the best documentary award at the 2009 Visions/Voices Environmental Film Festival and the “Best film for our future” award at the 2009 Mendocino Film Festival