Screening of Academy Award Nominated Documentary Film on Radical Environmental Group and Q&A with Co-Director
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Lou Posner
Feb 16, 2012, 1:58:04 AM2/16/12
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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Film (2012)
Friday, February 17, 2011, @ 7:00 p.m.
Epifaneo Collective
56 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan 10013
(1 block below Canal St. between Broadway & Church Street)
Trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAGxy85R380
“IF a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” tells the
remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on
the transformation and radicalization of one of its members. And
along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism,
and the way we define terrorism. Drawing from striking archival
footage — much of it never before seen — of dramatic arsons, and
intimate interviews with ELF members and the prosecutor, “If a Tree
Falls” explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until 2001 when
environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law
enforcement.
Director/Producer Marshall Curry in the New York Times, Jan. 24,
says:
“It’s been amazing to me how much overlap there is between the
unfolding story of the OWS movement and the story of the environmental
movement in the 90s. This summer, when the film was first released, it
was a historical film, but suddenly the issues it deals with are
urgent and on the front pages of newspapers every day.”
A Q&A with co-director Sam Cullman will follow the screening. Cullman
graduated from Brown University with honors (1999), where he majored
in Urban Studies and the Visual Arts, and founded Yellow Cake Films in
2006. He is producer, director and cinematographer of a number of
award winning documentaries and short films. He lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York.
A donation of $5 is suggested.
Epifaneo Collective http://www.epifaneo.com/ is affiliated with
I.N.N. World Report http://www.innworldreport.net/inn/ , a not-for-
profit alternative media organization. For over 10 years, we have been
supporting the activist community through broadcasts, film screenings,
speaker events, and special events.
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Film (2012)
Friday, February 17, 2011, @ 7:00 p.m.
Epifaneo Collective
56 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan 10013
(1 block below Canal St. between Broadway & Church Street)
Trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAGxy85R380
“IF a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” tells the
remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on
the transformation and radicalization of one of its members. And
along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism,
and the way we define terrorism. Drawing from striking archival
footage — much of it never before seen — of dramatic arsons, and
intimate interviews with ELF members and the prosecutor, “If a Tree
Falls” explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until 2001 when
environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law
enforcement.
Director/Producer Marshall Curry in the New York Times, Jan. 24,
says:
“It’s been amazing to me how much overlap there is between the
unfolding story of the OWS movement and the story of the environmental
movement in the 90s. This summer, when the film was first released, it
was a historical film, but suddenly the issues it deals with are
urgent and on the front pages of newspapers every day.”
A Q&A with co-director Sam Cullman will follow the screening. Cullman
graduated from Brown University with honors (1999), where he majored
in Urban Studies and the Visual Arts, and founded Yellow Cake Films in
2006. He is producer, director and cinematographer of a number of
award winning documentaries and short films. He lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York.
A donation of $5 is suggested.
Epifaneo Collective http://www.epifaneo.com/ is affiliated with
I.N.N. World Report http://www.innworldreport.net/inn/ , a not-for-
profit alternative media organization. For over 10 years, we have been
supporting the activist community through broadcasts, film screenings,
speaker events, and special events.
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