Gene Rosow

DIRT! The Movie is popping up at wonderful Community Cinema Screenings across the country

Your Dirt Road Warrior is delighted to report that DIRT! The Movie is popping up at wonderful Community Cinema Screenings across the country. 

 

 PBS’s Emmy and Peabody award winning series ITVS honors independent film makers and audiences by putting them together in screenings in which community members discuss issues raised in the film and relate them to their own concerns and activities to improve their lives. 

 

What a pleasure to meet audiences at these screenings!  While we’re pleased and honored to be selected for a  nationwide PBS broadcast in honor of the 40^th Anniversary of Earth Day the community cinema screenings are a special added attraction for us film makers.  Our March 16 screening in Los Angeles in which Andy Lipkis of Tree People, and Janine Watkins, shared the panel with us film makers.  LA Times Environmental writer Margo Roosevelt served as moderator. The discussions ranged from city-wide and state wide issues.  Sure we like to hear compliments about the film from our audiences but it’s even cooler to experience the how the film sets off conversations among the audiences about what they are doing to protect and preserve dirt.  Dirt loving networks connect before your eyes.  State of the art professional composters (Kellogg and Malibu Compost)  share information about biodynamic compost incubation, policy makers share news of new initiatives that will make solar panels and rain barrels available on widespread affordable basis, and raffle winners take home bags of compost.  Now we’re talking dirty!

 

And the next screening sponsored by the City of Los Angeles held in the excellent screening room at Loyola Marymount University 

was filled with avid gardeners from the Mar Vista Community Gardeners sharing info and pressing political issues with Public Utilities Commissioner Paula Daniels one of our greenest and most ecologically knowledgeable political public servants who fondly recalls going barefoot as a girl in Hawaii…. Amazing..

 

 

Or take Wednesday’s community cinema screening in Houston.  Julie Coan of the Houston PBS station tells us:  “Last night was AMAZING. We had 300 people at the screening. The theatre only seats 240!  It was a great mix of people—young, old, lots of diversity. It really looked like Houston. Everyone was so excited about the film that the screening had the feeling of an old time tent revival. All that was missing was a few “Amens” and “Hallelujahs!” People were cheering and applauding….We had one gentleman stand up and say, ‘I want to make sure this film is shown at every high school in Houston’. …[We agree!] .. All and all it was great night. The seed packets were a HUGE hit---we gave away 300 thanks to our partner Urban Harvest. We also gave away a bunch of gardening books and two bags of organic soil called, “Joe’s Magic Mix” from an organic urban farm here in Houston.”  …. I love Community Cinema!!”

 

And we love community screenings where audiences can get seed packets and compost!   Thanks for letting us know Julie, and thanks for the link to the photos at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/houstonpbs/

We encourage every body to share the dirt about  how your community screenings went.

 

Soilfully yours,

 

Gene “Dirt Road Warrior” Rosow

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