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An evening of green screenings
If “An Inconvenient Truth” (which is excellent, BTW) has whetted your appetite for environmental docs, check out “Green Screen: Films From the Environmental Front,” a series that runs the third Wedneday of every month at the Alamo Downtown.
That means the next installment is coming up next Wednesday, June 21. On the bill is “The River,” a 1938 doc about the Tennessee Valley Authority’s management of the Mississippi. Its narration was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. The evening also features 1983’s “River of Innocence,” about the history and geology of the San Marcos River. The soundtrack includes music by Shake Russell, Dana Cooper and Jack Ingram, and director Ron Coley will be in attendance.
The films start at 7 p.m., and admission is free. The event is sponsored by Save Our Springs Alliance, Save Barton Creek Association, Environment Texas, Eco-wise, GEAR Rentals, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Austin Chronicle, Austin Film Society, Miscellaneous Rentals and Turnkey Rentals.
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By Susanne Mason
June 15, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
Ron Coley, the director of “River of Innocence” will attend the screening on Wed. 6/21, and do a Q&A afterwards. I highly recommend this film for the incredible view it gives of the unique Central Texas ecosystems supported by the Edwards Aquifer. The underwater imagery of the San Marcos river is unforgettable — primordial and magnificently present at once.