If you missed the award-winning film Gasland, about hydraulic fracturing, not to worry, you can see it– for free–as part of a newly announced local film festival.
From March 3rd through 12th, the Village and Town of Mamaroneck and the Village of Larchmont will host Green Screen, a free film festival of eight environment-themed movies, for grownups and kids.
Each screening will be followed with a featured speaker and a Q & A session on the topic.
The featured speaker for the Gasland screening scheduled for Sunday, March 11th will be Paul Gallay, President of Riverkeeper.
Riverkeeper is one of the local activist groups fighting to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking–the controversial process of extracting natural gas–in New York State and the reservoirs that supply New Yorkers. (See our previous coverage.)
Other films scheduled for the March screenings are:
THE LORAX
Date Saturday March 3, 10 AM
Tickets sold for a reduced rate of $5 per ticket, first-come, first-served.
Venue Clearview Theater
BAG IT
Date Saturday, March 3, 2 PM
Venue Mamaroneck Library
Speaker Sara Goddard, a local activist on the issue from Rye, which recently became the first municipality in Westchester to ban plastic bags.
FRESH
Date Sunday, March 4, 2 PM
Venue Larchmont Village Center (next to the Larchmont Library)
NO IMPACT MAN
Date Monday, March 5, 7:30 PM
Venue Mamaroneck Town Center (Conference Room C)
EXTREME ICE
Date Saturday, March 10, 12 PM
Venue Mamaroneck Library
FLOW: FOR THE LOVE OF WATER
Date Saturday, March 10, 2 pm
Venue Mamaroneck Library
GASLAND
Date Sunday, March 11
Venue Larchmont Village Center, 2 pm
Speaker Paul Gallay, president of Riverkeeper, and the Hudson Riverkeeper
CARBON NATION
Date Monday, March 12, 7:30 pm
Venue Mamaroneck Town Center (Conference Room C)
Watch theLoop in February for information on how to get your free tickets to the festival and for more information on the featured speakers.
author
Joyce H. Newman is an Emmy Award-winning environmental journalist, educator, and gardener. She holds a Certificate in Horticulture from The New York Botanical Garden, and is a tour guide there.
