Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and 7th Art Public Forum on Al
Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
The FLEFF/7th Art Forum kicks off on Friday, June 30 at 7:00 p.m. at
Cinemapolis with the opening night screening of the highly acclaimed and
controversial An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim.
The film features Al Gore and probes the issue of global warming and
climate change. The New York Times described the film as “one of the most
exciting and essential movies of the year.”
Admission to this special public forum on An Inconvenient Truth is on a
first come, first served basis. Ticket sales will open at 6:30 p.m. at
Cinemapolis on Friday, June 30.
Tom Shevory, co director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
and professor of politics; Jason Hamilton, assistant professor of biology;
and Sean Vormwald, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at Ithaca
College will lead the post-screening discussion. Shevory, Hamilton and
Vormwald represented Ithaca College at the 2005 United Nations Climate
Summit in Montreal.
And be sure to join us for the FLEFF/7th Art After Party at Korova, 214
East State St. to continue the conversation. 21 plus.
The Film Forum is an on-going collaborative partnership between FLEFF
and 7th Art Corporation to connect first run, feature length US and
international 35mm films with scholars, artists and activists for
community discussions. The Film Forum is designed to open up a way to
think differently about what the words environment and sustainability can
mean in an interconnected global context through vigorous post-screening
discussion and debate. The Forum is dedicated to rethinking and
reconceptualizing our definition of the environment.
Ithaca College faculty and Ithaca community speakers will lead public
forums for audience discussion after the opening night screenings of
selected feature films at Cinemapolis and Fall Creek Cinemas in downtown
Ithaca.
FLEFF and the 7th Art Corporation are collaborative partners for the
weeklong festival, slated for March 26-April 2, 2007.
For more information, contact Tom Shevory, shevory@ithaca.edu
For information on the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, visit us
at https://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
For information on The Film Forum screenings and events at Cinemapolis
and Fall Creek, go to http://www.cinemapolis.org
Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
