Radish Magazine
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Oneota Film Festival would also like to thank the quad cities Radish Magazine for acting as a Media Partner for the 2011 festival!
Indie Film Making Workshop with John de Graaf
Join other inspiring filmmakers for John de Graaf's: MAKING DOCUMENTARIES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY.
Filmmaker John de Graaf shares his 34 year experience as a producer of documentaries that inspire citizen action for social change. Using short excerpts from a few of his films and other examples, he'll talk about how to consider your audience, how to use characters and stories, rather than declarations...
Q & A with Filmmaker of Ride the Divide
Take part in a Q & A with director Hunter Weeks following the screening of ‘Ride the Divide.’ Learn about Weeks adventure following 15 mountain bikers racing from Banff, Canada to a small, dusty crossing on the Mexican border. It is the world’s toughest mountain bike race, which traverses over 2700 miles along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains.
Hunter previously directed...
Filmmakers Reception
Enjoy an evening with special guests of the Oneota Film Festival. Mingle with filmmaker Hunter Weeks- Ride the Divide; filmmaker John de Graaf- Buyer Be Fair and What’s the Economy for, Anyway?; filmmaker Damon Holland -absence/presence; panelist Francis Thicke and others.
Expect light snacks and refreshments. Dug Road Inn, 601 West Main Street (at the corner of Main and Mill Streets) Decorah 563 382-9355.
Renewable Local Energy Panel
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Date and Time: Sunday, Jan. 23 at 12:35pm Location: Valders Room 206 Film: ‘Carbon Nation’ (shown at 11am, in Valders Rm 206, film length 86 min) Moderator: Jim Martin Schramm – Jim Martin-Schramm joined the Religion faculty of Luther College in 1993. He is an ordained member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and holds a doctorate in Christian Ethics from Union Theological Seminary...
Q & A with Filmmakers of This Way of Life
Take part in a Q & A, via SKYPE, with director Thomas Burstyn and writer Barbara Sumner-Burstyn following the screening of ‘This Way of Life.’ Hear about their experiences of this intimate portrait of Peter Karena and his family. Shot over 4 years, they captured the Karenas uniting their philosophy with their circumstances, turning hardship into a meaningful and satisfying life.
Quality of Life – The Happiness Challenge
HE HAPPINESS CHALLENGE: HOW LOCAL COMMUNITIES CAN USE HAPPINESS SCIENCE TO ENGAGE CITIZENS AND ENHANCE WELL-BEING.
The issue of happiness is hot right now, and from the Kingdom of Bhutan to the city of Seattle, communities are measuring local well-being and engaging residents, organizations, business and government in a conversation about why "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product." John de Graaf examines...
Oneota Film Festival’s ‘intriguing, lively’ award-winning films include Oscar short-list nominee
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Important filmmakers, community panels, local short films, live feed from New Zealand round out three-day, 25-film festival, Jan. 21-23 (DECORAH, Iowa, January 10, 2011) – Attendees of Oneota Film Festival, Jan. 21-23, can experience the world’s toughest bike race along the immense beauty of the Continental Divide, see how people fight back against environmental tragedy and witness how the national dialogue on education is being...
This Way of Life
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Special Event: Q & A with Filmmakers of ’This Way of Life’ at the Oneota Film Festival Shot over four years, This Way of Life is an intimate portrait of Peter Karena and his family. Masterful in the saddle and Hollywood handsome, Peter lives by an internal code of values and honor largely lost in modern times. Though European, Peter was adopted into a Maori...
Waste Land
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Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his...
Race to Nowhere
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A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the high-stakes, high-pressure culture that has invaded our schools and our children’s lives, creating unhealthy, disengaged, unprepared and stressed-out youth. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people in all types of communities who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents...
A Small Act
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A SMALL ACT tells the story of two very unlikely philanthropists whose modest acts of charity shine a light on the incredible power of giving—no matter how small the gift. Chris Mburu was a child living in a village in Kenya when he first received a $15 scholarship from a Swedish woman named Hilde Back. Her humble but steady sponsorship put Chris through school and...
Reel Rock Film Tour
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This year, REEL ROCK turns five, and co-founders Sender Films and Big UP Productions are celebrating by taking you on a global ride like never before. From death-defying speed link-ups of the wildest faces in The Alps, to Olympian displays of strength and tenacity on the hardest boulders ever climbed, REEL ROCK 2010 features a breathtaking journey through the vertical realm with the heroes of...
Ride The Divide
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Ride The Divide is an inspiring journey about the world’s toughest mountain bike race, which traverses over 2700 miles along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. Special Event: Hunter Weeks, Director of “Ride the Divide,” will be here on Fri. Jan. 21 to do a Q&A after the film showing. The film weaves the story of three characters’ experiences with immense mountain beauty and...
What’s the Economy for, Anyway?
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Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society’s well-being and suggests workable alternatives. In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame (Look forward to a special appearance by John at the 2011 Oneota Film Festival!), ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways we...
Buyer Be Fair
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BUYER BE FAIR: THE PROMISE OF PRODUCT CERTIFICATION takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, the USA and Canada to explore how conscious consumers and businesses can use the market to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through product labeling, with a focus on Fair Trade coffee and Forest Stewardship Council certified wood. BUYER BE FAIR is an inspirational and balanced television special...
Tar Creek
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TAR CREEK is the story of the worst environmental disaster you’ve never heard of: the Tar Creek Superfund site. Once one of the largest lead and zinc mines on the planet, Tar Creek is now home to more than 40 square miles of environmental devastation in northeastern Oklahoma: acid mine water in the creeks, stratospheric lead poisoning in the children, and sinkholes that melt backyards...
Vanishing of the Bees
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Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three bites of food on our tables. Vanishing of the...
Living Downstream
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Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic 85-minute film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. There was once a village overlooking a river. The people who lived there were very kind....
3 Peaks 3 Weeks
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The 3 Peaks 3 Weeks Challenge is an annual all-female climbing event which aims to summit three of Africa’s highest peaks in three weeks, raising money and awareness for the three key issues currently facing Africa; environment, education and health. The climbs of Mt Kenya, Mt Meru and Mt Kilimanjaro aim to raise awareness for these peak issues and to support and encourage grassroots community...
