Sunday Film Festival

Room 5 12:00 YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip) Selected Episodes (30 min) YERT is a year-long eco-expedition through the U.S. With video camera in hand and tongue in cheek, three friends are exploring the landscape of America’s unique approach to environmental sustainability. 12:30 Finding Solutions: A Brief Documentary on Sustainability (18 min) In the midst of tough times, see how people are finding more sustainable ways to live while treating people and the planet with more respect. 1:00 Good Food (30 min) Preview clips from film provide intimate glimpses of the lives and work of people who are growing your food. Take a peak at the more local, sustainable food system that is beginning to emerge in the Pacific Northwest. Join filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin for a postscreening discussion. 2:00 King Corn (90 min) With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, best friends plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most productive, most subsidized crop on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm. After the film, join local experts for a discussion on food and agriculture. 4:00 Broken Limbs (57 min) Wenatchee, WA is known as the Apple Capital of the World. Today, apple orchardists by thousands are going out of business and thousands more await the dreaded letter from the bank. After his own father receives such a letter, filmmaker Guy Evans sets out on a journey to find out what went wrong in this natural Garden of Eden. After the film, join producer Jamie Howell for a discussion about New American Farmers.