NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL and THE STUDIO AT SAGE HILL Kick Off 2011 Fall ‘Cinema Sage Hill’ Free Community Film Series with West Coast Premiere of Greening the Revolution
The Newport Beach Film Festival and The Studio at Sage Hill are proud to launch the 2011 fall Cinema Sage Hill season with a free screening of the documentary film Greening the Revolution, followed by a Q&A with director Katie Curran.
Film Synopsis: Today's profit-centered food system wages a war on the world’s poor, especially farmers. While agribusiness reaps record wealth, starving protesters cry for affordable food and peasants choose between land and death. But farmers and workers are organized and fighting back, while implementing their own sustainable alternatives. Filmed in Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Kenya, Zambia, India and the United States, with interviews from farmers, workers and activists, government and corporate officials, including the Director of the US Food and Drug Administration and the VP of Government Relations for Monsanto Corporation, and intellectuals such as Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Noam Chomsky. Truly an independent film, self-taught and first-time director Katie Curran backpacked across the world to capture rare interviews and footage for Greening the Revolution.
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The Newport Beach Film Festival and The Studio at Sage Hill began their cultural collaboration in the fall of 2009 with the launch of Cinema Sage Hill. Created to foster an appreciation and an awareness of independent films and expose audiences to compelling subjects and perspectives, Cinema Sage Hill showcases diverse and thought provoking independent documentary films from around the world. A sampling of past films include The Cove (Academy Award® winner, Best Documentary), Food Fight, Climate Refugees, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Clay Marzo: Just Add Water and Warrior Champions.
