Opening Night! Switch (1hr 43 min) and Pfad, Vorgarten, Kollaps, Stille (8 min)

Event Date: 
Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:00pm

Join us for a special evening!   The Director of Switch Harry Lynch will be in attendance and will answer questions following the film!   Opening Night VIP Celebration immediately following at The Bridgewater Grill at The Golden Hotel.   Tickets available here.

 

Switch

Directed by: Harry Lynch

  (1 hour, 43 minutes)    

What will it really take, to switch from oil and coal, to their alternatives? Dr. Scott Tinker, Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, professor of geosciences, and renowned energy lecturer, embarks on a round the world journey to answer this and related questions: If coal is dirty, why do we keep using it? Can we really clean it up? Will oil get more expensive? Will it run out? How quickly will we adopt alternatives, and which ones? How risky is hydraulic fracturing? How dangerous is nuclear? What are the biggest challenges, and most promising solutions, to our energy transition? What role does each of us play? Dr. Tinker goes inside the world's premiere energy sites for all resources, from coal to solar, and talks to leaders in government, industry and academia, exploring the world of energy like no documentary has ever done before. Test audiences have called this 'the most important energy film since An Inconvenient Truth.'
 
 

 

Directed by: Kai Miedendorp
(8 minutes)

While politicians are engaged on two fronts in a half-hearted war on climate change and the disappearance of natural resources, we have already entered a period in which we are confronted with the very circumstances that we are still trying to prevent. What will happen after a complete collapse?The need of a peaceful synergy between man and nature is, in the face of unbridled industrial production and its destructive effects on the environment, more urgent than ever. If the threats to nature seem to now reach apocalyptic proportions, then this film is meant to demonstrate that with strength, reason and all those who possess these virtues, one might never lose real hope. A brighter tomorrow awaits our planet and the word future will never lose its meaning.

Produced by: German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)
Country: Germany
Language: German - Subtitles in: English

 

 

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