Fwd: [HMEG] Green on the Screen: Sweet Land

[Stephanie Hankerson]

For your screening pleasure....SCKH

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From: Renée Lepreau <renee....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Subject: [HMEG] Green on the Screen: Sweet Land
To: HMC-Environ...@googlegroups.com



Another event while I'm at it.  Text below and flyer at

http://groups.google.com/group/HMC-Environmental-Group/web/sweet%20land%20flyer.pdf?hl=en

Sweet Land: A Love Story
Wed, Feb 18 at 6:30pm
St. Anthony Park Library
2245 Como Ave, Saint Paul

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005
Hamptons International Film Festival, Sweet Land is a poignant and
lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant
experience.

Based on Will Weaver's short story A Gravestone Made of Wheat and shot
on location in Southern Minnesota, Sweet Land is that rare independent
feature that uses painterly images and understated performances to
tell a universal story of love and discovery. David Tumblety's
glorious magic-hour cinematography recalls classic American art cinema
like Days of Heaven, transforming the amber majesty of Southern
Minnesota's farm country into an elegiac metaphor for memory, family,
and history.

But what makes Sweet Land eligible for Green on the Screen? Sweet Land
is the first independently produced carbon-neutral film made in the
United States. Director and writer Ali Selim says that for him, "it's
less of a political statement about global warming, and more just,
there's got to be a nicer, cleaner way to do
this."

Ramy Selim, brother of Ali, will introduce the film and answer
questions about the environmental aspects of the production process.
Ramy owns Sunny Day Earth Solutions on Como Ave, just west of 280.

The event is free with refreshments.