University film series to focus on environment
The 12th Annual International Studies Film Series at
Shippensburg University will focus on “Earth’s Environment: A Global Struggle.”
The four-film series, sponsored by the International
Studies Program, is on Wednesdays in February, March and April. Each film is at
7 p.m. in Grove Hall Forum and is open to the public. The films are:
- Feb.
1: Beautiful Islands (2010). Three beautiful islands shaken by climate change are the film’s subject:
Tuvalu in the South Pacific, Venice in Italy and Shishmaref in Alaska. The film
takes viewers on a two-hour trip around the world to meet people whose lives near
the water are disappearing. “
- Feb. 29: Milking
the Rhino (2009). African nature documentaries usually ignore the people
just off-camera living with the dangers and costs of wildlife. Milking the Rhino tells intimate,
hopeful and heartbreaking stories of herders in Kenya and Namibia whose
traditional ways of life are colliding with expectations of Western
conservationists. The film is in Maasai, Ojihimba, Swahili and English.
- March
21:Blue Gold (2008). The film sheds light on the
world’s rapidly approaching water crisis and suggests that wars of the future
will be fought over water, as they are today over oil. As the specters of drought
and death loom, the film finds people willing to risk everything for the right
to water.
- April 4: Disorder, (2009). Shot in Canton, China’s third largest city, Disorder shows gritty and sometimes bizarre
events that can accompany rapid urbanization. The documentary captures,
with remarkable freedom, the anarchy, violence and seething
anxiety animating China’s industrial development. The film is in Chinese.
For
information on the International Studies Program, go to www.ship.edu/ism.
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