Ever since Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” documentary films have become a popular way to appreciate the environmentalism and sustainability movements. With this in mind, we here at Green Sonoma highly recommend some films at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, to be held at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts from March 5-7.
The films, three in all, comprise a program dubbed “Natural Heroes,” which celebrates independent filmmakers who have turned their lenses on the natural world and showcases inspiring stories of people who are making positive differences for our environment.
The program was produced by KRCB Public Television in Sonoma County, and will air on Saturday, March 6 at 4:30 p.m.
For this particular film festival, Series Producer Valerie Landes has selected films titled “Global Oneness,” “The Power of Community” and “How Cuba Survived Peal Oil” for the program. According to Landes, these films exemplify the message that one person really can make a difference.
Landes isn’t the only excited about these films; during a charity poker tournament this past weekend to benefit the festival, Program Director Jason Perdue described the representative films in the green-themed program as “incredible,” and “well worth the time.”
If that’s not enough of an endorsement, perhaps this is: last year MovieMaker magazine named the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival one of the 25 “coolest” film festivals in the U.S.
The Sonoma International Film Festival, held this year from April 14-18, was not on the list.
All told, Perdue said the 2010 Sebastopol festival will show 49 films. For more information, visit www.sebastopolfilmfestival.org.
