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“Flint” Water Contamination Crisis Documentary Preview | SF

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Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 3:45 pm | Cost: FREE
FESTHQ | 518 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA

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San Francisco Green Film Festival

The 9th Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival is about internationally acclaimed films, filmmakers, and guest speakers. This year’s “Home” theme encompasses a broad range of critical issues including affordable housing, migration, sustainable cities, habitat loss, and more.

There will be programs & discussions structured around the four elements – earth, water, fire, and air – and how they are creating multifaceted perspectives on climate issues.

2019 Program Guide | Full Festival Calendar
9th Annual SF Green Film Festival
September 24-29, 2019
Castro Theatre & Elsewhere, SF

The Festival will be showing 60 incredible new environmental films and sparking conversations on critical issues such as affordable housing, migration, habitat loss, and more. From the streets of San Francisco’s mid-Market to earth’s outer reaches on the International Space Station, this year’s Festival theme explores many different perspectives of home.

Sunday, April 23, 2017
San Francisco Green Film Festival

A work-in-progress preview of this new feature documentary from Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped, Best Feature SFGFF 2012; A Dangerous Game, SFGFF 2015) about the lead in drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich.

Baxter first heard about the water contamination crisis while participating in Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. “This just wasn’t a case of people having their water cut off for not paying their bills. They were paying for poisonous water. It was shocking.”

Flint’s 100,000 residents have been without safe drinking water since 2014, when local officials started diverting water from the Flint River to cut costs. Baxter has been on the ground in Flint, chronicling how local residents are pulling together to try to get through this. See exclusive footage from the film collected during more than two years of documenting one of the worst mass poisonings in American history.

 

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Cost: FREE
Categories: **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Movies
Venue: FESTHQ
Address: 518 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA