The Reel Change Sustainability Film Festival is coming to Vernon.
Hosted by the Fresh Outlook Foundation and sponsored by B.C. Hydro Power Smart, the festival presents a series of documentaries on a variety of sustainability issues including organic food, threatened wild salmon, the Pacific Ocean garbage patch and human survival.
“The topics are very relevant, and close to home,” said Marcia Dick, festival organizer.
“Each of the films carries a meaningful message and, in my case, has resulted in real changed behaviour. I ride my bike as much as possible, hang-dry my clothes, compost, eat organic food, refuse to buy farmed salmon, and continually look for new ways to lessen my impact on our planet’s resources.”
The two feature presentations, Revolution and Salmon Confidential, are being shown respectively Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Schubert Centre and Oct. 28 at 7:45 p.m. at the Vernon Towne Cinema.
The festival continues at the Schubert Centre Oct. 26 with showings at 10 a.m. of In Organic We Trust, followed by In Transition 2.0 at 1 p.m., Hungry for Change at 3:30 p.m. and Plastic Paradise at 7 p.m. Lost Rivers will be shown Oct. 28 at the Towne Cinema.
“Last year we offered the documentaries for free to teachers and professors and it was highly successful,” said FOF’s Joanne de Vries.
“This year’s lineup is stronger still and we know people will be excited about the amazing variety of topics and styles.”
For more information, visit http://freshoutlookfoundation.org/events/reel-change-sustainability-film-festival/
