Sustainability Week 2019: Film Festival
What films are on your watchlist?
Sustainability Week 2019 has you covered with movie night plans.
The Devil We Know
Tuesday, April 9th 2019
Documentary & Discussion
6:00pm – 8:00pm
School of Science & Mathematics Room 129
202 Calhoun Street
Join the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences to view a documentary of the true story behind a large corporation’s contamination of a community and the residents’ fight back. Discussion post-film will explore the relations between environmental justice, social justice, emerging contaminants, and slow regulatory response. Light refreshments provided.
Paradise Discovered: The Unbreakable Virgin Islanders
Wednesday, April 10th 2019
Documentary Screening with the filmmaker, Peter Bailey
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Education Center Room 118
25 St Philip Street
Join us for a screening of Peter Bailey’s second documentary of his “Paradise Discovered” Series, an inspiring true story of a community coming together following an unprecedented series of catastrophic storms amid an ineffectual response from the Federal government. Author, journalist, and filmmaker, Peter Bailey will be present for the screening. Co-sponsors to this event are the College of Charleston’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Geography, and the Avery Research Center. Light refreshments provided by Stone Soup Collective.
Warrior Women
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Film Screening
5:00pm – 7:00 pm
Stern Center Room 206
71 George Street
The film is about the true story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, an organizer with the 1970’s American Indian Movement, and the intergenerational nature of political movements as she joins forces with her daughter to keep the movement alive. Part of GSEC’s Second Thursdays series. Light refreshments provided.
Like Water for Chocolate
Friday, April 12th 2019
Film Screening
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Education Center Room 118
25 St Philip Street
Enjoy watching and discussing Spanish-language film (from Mexico), Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua para Chocolate) with Hispanic Studies faculty members Mary Ann Blitt and Silvia Rodríguez Sabater.
To view the rest of the Sustainability Week 2019 Schedule, keep up with our Facebook event or check out our website here.
