Rooftop Films and Solar One Present Earth Days (Event Over)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Rooftop Films, Solar One and Zeitgeist Films Present
EARTH DAYS - SOLD OUT
Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Venue: Solar One
Address: Stuyvesant Cove Park , overlooking the East River, south of East 23rd Street
8:00PM: FREE YELLOW and BLUE wine reception
8:30PM: Film Begins
Admission: SOLD OUT

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It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement— from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.

Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/ Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableau to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst ) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity's complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of groundbreaking eco-activism.

Earth Days opens at The Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street on August 14th

Thursday, August 13th
Screening 8:30pm
STUYVESANT COVE PARK
overlooking the East River south of E. 23rd Street.
Map & Directions: http://solar1.org/about/map
Please note Earth Days/Solar One in the Subject line.