4th Annual MoRUS Film Fest
People for the Planet
August 18th – 21st, 2016
8:30pm @ Various East Village & LES Garden Locations
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Rounding out a summer focused on environmental action and awareness, The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) will present its Fourth Annual MoRUS Film Fest themed, People for the Planet. With films covering topics ranging from endangered species both above and below the water to the global hemp movement, the Film Fest will run Thursday, August 18 through Sunday, August 21 at various community gardens. In case of rain, films will screen at MoRUS, 155 Avenue C between 9th and 10th Streets.
With the largest concentration of community gardens of any neighborhood in the United States and its history of radical social activism, the East Village provides a fitting backdrop for People for the Planet. All films begin at 8:30 PM. Donation based, no one is turned away. The Film Fest schedule is as follows:
Thursday, August 18
6B Community Garden on the corner of East 6th St. and Ave. B
Racing to Zero – Having pledged to achieve zero waste by the year 2020, San Francisco’s waste stream diversion tactics are tracked in this fast-moving 2014 documentary and presents innovative new solutions to waste. Runtime: 59 minutes
Friday, August 19
Orchard Alley Garden East 4th St. Between Ave. C and D
Racing Extinction – Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, Oscar®-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that expose issues of endangered species and mass extinction. This eco-thriller is from 2015.
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Saturday, August 20
Dias Y Flores Community Garden East 13th St. between Ave. A and B
Inhabit and Unbroken Ground
This double-feature focuses on new ways to think about our relationship with the land and the oceans.
Inhabit – Exploring the tools for and promise of meeting human needs while also caring for and regenerating ecosystem health, this 2015 documentary elevates the idea of conscience inhabitance through permaculture.
Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Unbroken Ground – In this 2016 short film, surfer/director Chris Malloy highlights some of the great chasms in modern food production while offering a potential solution: in this case following the credo of Patagonia Provisions, the sustainable food line and offshoot of the outdoor apparel company, to cause no unnecessary harm to the environment in the harvesting and preparation of food and inspire solutions to the environmental crisis.
Runtime: 26 minutes
Sunday, August 21
Hemp Night – Bringing it Home
La Plaza Community Garden Corner of 9th St. and Ave. C
An evening devoted to the past, present and future of hemp, a panel of speakers will precede a screening of Bringing it Home, a 2013 documentary that follows a father’s search to find the healthiest building materials leading to the completion of the nation’s first hemp house. Hemp with lime is a non-toxic, energy efficient, mildew, fire and pest resistant building material. The drawback — although research is legal in some states, hemp remains off-limits to almost all U.S. farmers.
People for the Planet is made possible in part by a grant from Citizens Committee for New York City.