San Francisco Green Film Festival
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San Francisco Green Film Festival is a film festival
which was held 3-6 March 2011 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema
in San Francisco.
The festival featured the Brazilian documentary film Hauling directed by Sean Walsh, and the film Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
by Werner Herzog
. Author Margaret Atwood
appeared for a satellite Q&A after the screening of In the Wake of the Flood
, a new documentary by Ron Mann
on Atwood's book tour for her novel The Year of the Flood
. French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand
presented a screening of Home
. The German documentary The Fourth Revolution: Energy Autonomy will had its U.S. premiere at the festival.
The festival's Green Tenacity Award was awarded to Swedish director Fredrik Gertten
for the film Bananas!*.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
which was held 3-6 March 2011 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema
Embarcadero Center
Embarcadero Center is a commercial complex of five office towers and two hotels on a site located off the Embarcadero in the financial district of San Francisco, California. The Trammell Crow, David Rockefeller and John Portman development was begun with Tower One in 1971, with the last...
in San Francisco.
The festival featured the Brazilian documentary film Hauling directed by Sean Walsh, and the film Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is a 2010 documentary film directed by Dmitry Vasyukov and produced by Werner Herzog. The film depicts the life of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga....
by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
. Author Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
appeared for a satellite Q&A after the screening of In the Wake of the Flood
In the Wake of the Flood
In the Wake of the Flood is a 2010 documentary film produced in Canada by director Ron Mann and featuring author Margaret Atwood. The film follows Atwood on her unusual book tour for her novel The Year of the Flood....
, a new documentary by Ron Mann
Ron Mann
Ronald "Ron" Mann is a Canadian documentary film director focusing primarily on aspects of Canadian and American popular culture. He does most of his work through his company Sphinx Productions, while also running a film distribution company on the side called 'FilmsWeLike'. Mann has also put...
on Atwood's book tour for her novel The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, released on September 22, 2009 in the United States, and September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom...
. French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.- Early life :Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on March 13, 1946 in a renowned jewellers' family founded in 1803 by Claude Arthus-Bertrand and Michel-Ange Marion. His sister Catherine is one of his...
presented a screening of Home
Home (2009 film)
Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet...
. The German documentary The Fourth Revolution: Energy Autonomy will had its U.S. premiere at the festival.
The festival's Green Tenacity Award was awarded to Swedish director Fredrik Gertten
Fredrik Gertten
Carl Fredrik Gertten, born April 3, 1956 in Malmö, is a Swedish film maker and journalist.Gertten worked as a journalist for newspapers, radio and television in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe during the 1980s och 1990s. In 1995 he published the travel book Ung man söker världen through...
for the film Bananas!*.