Running the Sahara
Date: May 27, 2009
Location: Chattanooga Theatre Centre
Time: 6:45 PM Reception | 7:30 PM Film and Q&A with Charlie Engle
Cost: $25 per person
Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award winner Matt Damon and directed by Academy Award winner James Moll, Running the Sahara is a powerful and inspirational documentary that chronicles an attempt by three ultra marathoners to run across the entire length of Africa's Sahara Desert in 80 days. Tackling not only the elements, but also unimaginable physical and emotional obstacles, Charlie Engle, Kevin Lin and Ray Zahab undertake a grueling test of will and a chance to accomplish something that no known person has ever achieved.
Fuel
Date: June 20, 2009
Location: Green|Spaces, 63 East Main Street
Time: 6:30 PM Reception | 7:00 PM Film, Discussion and Book signing with Josh Tickell
Cost: $10 per person ($5 for AEC members)
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Fuel is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rise of the oil industry and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America," from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative. Winner of the 2008 Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sundance.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. featuring Kenosha Kid
Date: July 25, 2009
Location: Barking Legs Theatre, 1307 Dodds Avenue
Time: 7 PM
Cost: $10 per person ($5 for AEC members)
It may be a daunting undertaking, scoring the live soundtrack to a true film classic, but “Kenosha Kid” is a one-of-a-kind movie experience. Dan Nettles, bandleader, composer and guitarist for “Kenosha Kid,” creates a live jazz performance with fellow musicians Neal Fountain and Jeff Reilly, set to Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr. The event is designed to have something for everyone—a jazz concert, a film, a chamber ensemble and a comedy all rolled into one.
This event will also feature a short film scored by local performance artists from Shaking Ray Levi Society.
Tableland
Date: August 27, 2009
Location: Loose Cannon, 1800 Rossville Avenue
Time: 6 PM Culinary presentation | 7 PM Film and discussion
Cost: $15 per person ($10 for AEC members) *includes food
Award-winning film producer, Craig Noble embarked on an odyssey across North America, filming people who are living and demonstrating the need for an abundant, sustainable food system. From the orchards of Interior British Columbia, rural Quebec and other fascinating places where “slow food” is celebrated, you hear from colorful chefs, farmers, writers, teachers and others about the production of tasty, local and seasonal food from the field to your plate. It’s a film filled with fun stories, entertaining facts and plenty of real down-home cooking. The film tackles four important issues for education: sustainability, economics and marketing, health and taste education, and eating locally and seasonally.
Chief Braveheart
Date: September 24, 2009
Location: Tennessee Aquarium
Time: 5:30 PM Music by Native flutist Mike Serna | 6:00 PM: Film screenings and panel discussion with special guest Gayle Ross
Cost: $10 per person ($5 for AEC and Aquarium members)
The Ground Beneath Us, a WTCI-produced documentary, explores the important work being done locally to preserve the Native American history of our region. It features a variety of leaders, scholars and Native Americans from our region, as well as several students from the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, who visited this area to learn more about their history and walk on the land of their ancestors.
Chief Braveheart is a BBC-produced documentary that tells the story of John Ross, the Scottish trader who rose to become chief of the Cherokee nation. Director Les Wilson shot the film on location at several historic venues in the Chattanooga area, and interviews many of Ross' descendants, who still bear his name and revere his memory.
