2012 FESTIVAL/FILM schedule

All Cinema Verde events held at Villa East, 301 N. Main St., unless noted.
Celebrations Catering will offer  food and drinks for sale each evening.

Film Tickets are $5 and $7; VIP Passes $50 and $100
Click to buy tickets online
Many films will be followed by discussion with special guests.
Schedule is subject to change
Click for a PDF Film schedule

Friday, Feb. 24

5-8 pm         VIP Reception (free by invitation or public access tickets $25 –
                          would go toward purchase of VIP pass)

8-10 pm         Eco-Art Walk 

Visit the Cinema Verde gallery at Villa East, where we’re exhibiting works by featured artists plus submissions from area schoolchildren. View student film submissions.

Saturday, Feb. 25

Noon         Bottled Life  (AT UF Env Law Conference)

1-6 pm      Celebrate Nature Fair

2 pm         Carbon for Water

4 pm         Bottled Life – the Truth About Nestle’s Business with Water

6 pm         The Dolphin Defender  (with Director Hardy Jones)

8 pm         Confessions of an Eco-terrorist
                     (with Director Peter Jay Brown and Lon Haber)

Sunday, Feb. 26

1-6 pm     Sustainable Solutions Fair

2 pm         Death of an American Town; Burning in the Sun(two films)

4 pm         Dog in the Manger

6 pm         On Coal River (with Director Adams Wood)

8 pm        The Pipe

Monday, Feb. 27

4 pm         Precarious; Mercury Undercover(two films)

6 pm         Mann v. Ford; Koch Bros Exposed(two films)

8 pm         Silent Snow (with Director Jan van den Berg via skype)

Tuesday, Feb. 28

Help us Honor Our Local Farmers with a Community Potluck.  Bring a dish created from local foods to show our farmer’s the creative ways we use the bounty they provide! We’ll share our dishes and together let’s Thank our farmers for helping to create a sustainable community. Free film admission for farmer’s all night! (RSVPs appreciated)

4 pm         Vegucated

5 pm         Scientists Under Attack

6 pm         Mad City Chickens (with author Christine Heinrichs)
                     Florida Organic Growers short film (with Director Shelley Rogers)

8 pm         Planeat; Fish Meat(two films)

Wednesday, Feb. 29

4 pm        A Sea Change; Jesus Was a Commie(two films)

6 pm        Islands of Life;  Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives(two films)

7 pm        Vanishing of the Bees (AT FLMNH with Director Maryam Henein)**

8 pm        Vintage Verde Fashion Show

Thursday, March 1

4 pm         #whilewewatch; Miss South Pacific(two films)

6 pm         Pricele$$; End of Growth(two films)

                Tony Vacca, World Music Percussion Spectacle – Wild night of music with an African beat. 

Friday, March 2

4 pm         YERT – Your Environmental Road Trip

5-7 pm     Superfund Art Project, with a short film by Deep Green Director Matt Briggs (AT Thomas Center) FOLLOWING THIS EVENT, WE WILL TRAVEL BACK TO VILLA EAST FOR THE GRAND FINALE EVENING OF CINEMA VERDE

8 pm        Finale film on Sustainable Solutions: Deep Green – Special Guest: Matt Briggs, director of Deep Green joins our finale sponsored by Solar Impact, followed by discussion Deep Green (with Director Matt Briggs)

9 pm – Awards Night and Wrap Party - Join Us to Celebrate Cinema Verde and THANK our Volunteers and Sponsors! Music by Hired Hand from Hollywood, FL.

*Food and Drinks offered by Celebrations Catering, Civilization and The Midnight*
*Sound System provided by Sound Ideas throughout the festival*

Schedule subject to change.

All films presented at Celebrations Catering’s Villa East Conference Center, 301 N. Main St., except where noted:

*Film shown at UF Environmental Law Conference

**Film shown at Florida Museum of Natural History