Green Film Festival: “Death by a Thousand Cuts” Film Screening | SF

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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.

Friday, April 21, 2017
San Francisco Green Film Festival

With exquisite cinematography, Death by a Thousand Cuts uses the character-driven murder investigation on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to unpack the impacts of deforestation.

The film interweaves the many sides of the story of Melaneo’s murder, a Dominican Park Ranger in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park, told through: his Haitian wife Calina, brother Chichi, local reporter Luis Medrano and a Haitian Nené working as a Dominican park ranger, all representing different perspectives on a complex socio-political issue.

In parallel, the film explores the larger backdrop of the rapidly changing reality on the Dominican and Haitian border due to the illegal charcoal trafficking trade. Deforestation cuts deeply across the economic, social and security fabric of both countries and has far-reaching consequences in both nations.

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