Description
Feature Film: TO THE END (dir. Costa Boutsikaris, Anna Palmer)
Thursday, May 12: HALL ARTS 1:30pm
Short Film: CALIFORNIA NATURAL
Doors at 1:00pm | Films at 1:30pm
To the End follows the intersecting stories of four key players in the rise of the Green New Deal — a bold and ambitious plan to stop the climate crisis and address economic and racial justice in the process. In a volatile historical moment, these young leaders must work together to defend their generation’s right to a future. Set against the backdrop of the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic, a deepening economic crisis and historic protests against systemic racism, this is the fight of their lives, and the clock is ticking.
Runtime: 103mins
Year: 2022
Screening Times:
Thurs, May 12 - 1:00pm at Hamon Hall
Sun, May 15 - 1:30pm at Hall Arts
Meet the Director:
Rachel Lears is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Lears’ most recent feature documentary, Knock Down the House (Netflix), follows four women who ran insurgent congressional campaigns in 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush. The film won the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar and nominated for an Emmy in 2020. Lears received the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2019, and also holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from NYU.
Short Film: CALIFORNIA NATURAL (dir. Lindsey Hagen)
Runtime: 10min
Year: 2022
California Natural offers a sensuous immersion into the world of natural winemaking pioneer Martha Stoumen. The film illuminates this first generation winemaker’s ethos, and values, as she explores the shifting tides of climate change with creativity, expertise and joy.
Screening Times:
Thurs, May 12 - 1:00pm at Hamon Hall
Sun, May 15 - 1:30pm at Hall Arts
Meet the Director:
Lindsey Hagen is a director and producer with a focus on cause-related storytelling. Hagen believes in the power of human connection and shares stories that unite the viewer through emotive and vulnerable narratives.
