Inspiring Lives: Conversation with Flo Stone | SF Green Film Fest
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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.
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9th Annual SF Green Film Festival
September 24-29, 2019
Castro Theatre & Elsewhere, SFThe 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.
2017 Inspiring Lives Award: Where was the seed planted for Green Film Fest? Flo Stone’s work has inspired countless people to environmental activism through the power of cinema.
Flo Stone is founder of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital – the longest running US green film festival, currently celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Previously, she was the head of public programs at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, where she initiated the Margaret Mead Film Festival. She was Film Chair for the Smithsonian’s Forum on Biodiversity and she established the Earthwatch Film Awards at National Geographic. Both nationally and internationally, she has served on many film juries and festival committees. In 2015, Flo was honored with Audubon’s Rachel Carson Award from Women in Conservation, and in 2008 she received the Green Hero Award from Washingtonian Magazine.
Join them for an intimate conversation with Flo on her life, career, and experiences.
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Cost: FREE
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