[OKC] reel groovy green at the deadCenter Film Festival

[Shauna Struby]

Now in its ninth year, the merry, amazing, ever-growing deadCenter Film
Festival has a reel green thing going on this year with an entire block of
four films devoted to sustainability, Sat., June 13, 1 p.m. at the Kerr
Auditorium, Oklahoma City. Click here <http://www.deadcenterfilm.org/info/>
for details. Of course the whole festival is worth checking into for a few
days of creative immersion, but if you can't make if for the full film
enchilada, then at least save time for the sustainability slice. 

Here's what's reeling in the deadCenter green world: 

Chase the Can | DEQ | An aluminum can makes an unexpected journey in this
wind-powered video from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. 

Soil in Good Heart | Deborah Koons Garcia | Soil In Good Heart is a taste of
a documentary currently in production by Deborah Koons Garcia, director of
The Future of Food (2004). The importance of understanding, preserving and
rebuilding this essential resource is the foundation of sustainable
agriculture. We are all part of the soil community and we ignore this at our
peril. 

Food for Thought | Stefanie Gowdy | Offers a glimpse at locally produced
agriculture and farmers markets, and poses questions about why we import
food from all over the world when we are perfectly capable of producing food
in our own backyard. Join the filmmaker and many characters she meets along
the way in this interesting, and insightful look into what we eat and where
it comes from. 

Homegrown | Robert McFalls | By dawn, the interchange of the 134 Freeway and
Interstate 210 is already starting to thrum with traffic. But only a hundred
feet away, the Dervaes family has been up for hours. Their surprisingly tiny
green oasis is a working farm right in the middle of Pasadena. Once seen as
a nutty idea, the family homestead now produces three tons of organic
produce a year. Jules and his adult children, Justin, Anas and Jordanne
speak candidly about what shaped their family and their need for
independence. We learn about Jules' father, an oil executive with a green
thumb, Jules' adventures as a young man homesteading in New Zealand, and the
sorrows and hardships their family has faced over the years, including
divorce, lawsuits and a stint foraging for recyclable cans. We watch them
wrestle with their quest to live a simple lifestyle even as their website,
'Path To Freedom,' demands more attention from followers around the world.
Originally set up to share farming tips, it now dangles tantalizing
prospects of a financial windfall. But what would it mean to sell ad space
on their website instead of getting their hands dirty? Would it change their
way of life if they got used to easy money? And how will Jules' children be
able to buy their own homesteads and carry on in the future? There are no
easy answers. But along the way, the Dervaes have grown stronger and found a
tight knit community based on family, friends, good food, hard work, and the
commitment to tread lightly upon the earth.

Stick around for a little counter culture flash back and forward with Saint
Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie at 9 p.m. on Sat., complete with yoga, at
NE. 3rd & E.K. Gaylord, Oklahoma City. 

Saint Misbehavin'| Beginning with Woodstock '99, director Michelle Esrick
has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin'
journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal
the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy's
own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array of fellow
travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the
clown's grin and the fool's clothing. In Saint Misbehavin' Wavy is revealed
more than the tie-dyed entertainer and ice-cream flavor namesake that often
defines him in the popular imagination. Audiences will come to know the
activist, the optimist, and the healer who reaches beyond political,
economic, and cultural divisions in his commitment to social change and the
alleviation of human suffering. Wavy's life is his message, serving as
deeply needed inspiration that we can change the world and have fun doing
it. Satirist Paul Krasner describes Wavy as "The illegitimate son of Harpo
Marx and Mother Theresa, conceived one starry night on a spiritual whoopie
cushion," to which Wavy has replied, "Some people tell me I'm a saint, I
tell them I'm Saint Misbehavin'." Featuring: Wavy Gravy, Jahanara Romney,
Jordon Romney, Dr. Larry Brilliant, The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, Bonnie
Raitt, Jackson Browne, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Odetta, Patch Adams, Steve
Earle, Lisa Law, Buffy Sainte Marie, Denise Kaufman, Michael Franti, Tom
Law, Steven Ben Israel, The Hog Farm and more!

 

Transition Town OKC will have a table at both events. Drop by for a chat and
some catalytic transition talk.

 

::: shauna lawyer struby

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