An evening with an multi-award winning film and its director: AN AMERICAN OPERA is a visceral, operatic vision of what happened to the pet owners of New Orleans who were forced to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina without their beloved pets and the volunteers who came from all over the world to help.
The Not For Sale Backyard Abolitionist Tour is a multimedia event that brings together lecture, film and music to expose the human trafficking epidemic. It is a gripping night of heart breaking truth and inspirational victories.
This is a timely and critical story about the Gulf Oil Spill right in the midst of the worst environmental disaster in history. Now is the time for students/tomorrow’s leaders and citizens to learn as events and policy unfold what is really happening and it’s multi-layered impact on animals, the environment, the fishing and oil industries, and both the the global environment and the global economy.
Skiing, Kayaking, Climbing, Mt.Biking, and beyond. The Adventure Film Festival’s World Tour mobilizes this year’s finest award winning films, bringing them to life on the big screen in venues around the world. Audiences will travel through the lens into the minds and locations of the world’s foremost adventurers, stirring contemplative and emotionally charged journeys within ourselves. These films invite us all to spread the creativity, enthusiasm, and activism inherent in Adventure.
The powerful film “African Soul, American Heart” tells how one Fargo, North Dakota resident, a Sudanese Lost Boy who survived against all odds to thrive in his adopted country, now finds himself torn between responsibilities.
Thaddeus Rex
A PBS veteran and award winning songwriter, Thaddeus Rex’s unique brand of high octane music and contagious enthusiasm has been hailed by the Washington Post as “Part Monty Python, part Dr. Seus” and by the L.A. Times as a sincere celebration of reading.