Thoreau Center Film Screening: "The Killing Seasons"

Presented by Director John Antonelli

Friday, October 8

12:30 pm

Pacific Room at Tides

Can wildlife conservation efforts go too far? Two African stories. Two white families. Two vastly different approaches: one ruthless, one collaborative. Two perplexingly different outcomes.

Filmmaking partners John Antonelli and Will Parrinello will screen their 20 minute rough cut of The Killing Seasons. Shot on location in Zambia and Swaziland, the film began as short segments about Hammer Simwinga and Thuli Makama, two Goldman Environmental Prize winners. Now, midway in the production, Antonelli is shaping the story in the edit room and planning another trip to Africa. This informal feedback session will help inform the filmmakers on their progress and guide them as they move forward.

Antonelli's Sam Cooke: Crossing Over was broadcast on PBS American Masters, which was just nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series.

Parrinello's most recent film Mustang: Journey of Transformation had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS.

For more information on the filmmakers, go to www.mvfg.com

Brown Bag events are free informal mid-day learning sessions hosted at Tides. Friends, neighbors and colleagues are welcome. Visitors, please sign in at the front desk.

New book donations from IFG

Thank you to the International Forum on Globalization for their recent donation of numerous books to the library collection, including the following diverse selection of books by some of their board members, staff, and other associates. Also be sure to check out the recommended book list they put together this month, part of our new series looking at what books Thoreau Center organizations are reading and recommending.

• Barlow, Maude. (2005). Too close for comfort: Canada's future within fortress North America. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
• Mander, Jerry. (1978). Four arguments for the elimination of television. New York: Morrow.
• Shiva, Vandana. (1997). The enclosure and recovery of the commons: biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and intellectual property rights. New Delhi: Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology.
• Barlow, Maude, and Tony Clarke. (1998). MAI: the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the threat to American freedom. New York, N.Y.: Stoddart.
• Korten, David C. (1995). When corporations rule the world. West Hartford, Conn: Kumarian Press.
• Broad, Robin, and John Cavanagh. (2009). Development redefined: how the market met its match. International studies intensives. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
• Goering, Peter, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and John Page. (1993). From the ground up: rethinking industrial agriculture. London: Zed Books in association with International Society for Ecology and Culture.
• Mander, Jerry, and Edward Goldsmith. (1996). The case against the global economy: and for a turn toward the local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
• Daly, Herman E., John B. Cobb, and Clifford W. Cobb. (1989). For the common good: redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Paik, Koohan, Jerry Mander, and Hannah J. Bernard. 2009.The SuperFerry chronicles: Hawaii's uprising against militarism, commercialism and the suppression of the earth. Kihei, Hawai'i: Koa Books.
• Mander, Jerry. (1991). In the absence of the sacred: the failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
• Barnet, Richard J., and John Cavanagh. (1994). Global dreams: imperial corporations and the new world order. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Hertsgaard, Mark. (1998). Earth odyssey: around the world in search of our environmental future. New York: Broadway Books.
• Clarke, Tony. (2007). Inside the bottle: exposing the bottled water industry. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.