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The Foresight Project and the Newbury Film Series have joined as partners to bring a GreenFilm Festival to the Boston GreenFest 2009 celebration to be held August 21 and 22 at Boston City Hall Plaza. The three organizations are working together to bring a strong local independent and youth filmmaking presence to GreenFest, and many of the filmmakers are interested in speaking at GreenFilmFest!

Films to be shown throughout the festival will include:
“The Greening of Southie” directed by Ian Cheney, and produced by Wicked Delicate Films, is the story of Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building, and the people who made it possible. In the traditionally Irish-American working-class neighborhood of South Boston, a new kind of building has taken shape. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets and a green roof, the Macallen building is something different: a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design.

“Fresh” by AnaSofia Joanes (freshthemovie.com) exposes the choices we make as food consumers. As we continue to endure tough economic times, many of us turn to fast food and cheap grocery store options in order to feed ourselves without depleting our wallets. “Fresh” shows how these choices are unwise, unhealthy, and unsustainable. However, instead of focusing on this bleak reality, the film highlights examples of sustainable and natural farming, offering hope and an avenue for moving away from shortsighted industrialized farming techniques. Fresh profile heroes from all over the country who are changing the way we eat, such as farmers Will Allen of Growing Power and Joel Salatin of Polyface farms.

“Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change,” (worldoutofbalance.org), which has screened at 40+ film festivals worldwide, shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media and citizens and what can be done about global warming. While the Earth’s climate is pushed further out of balance by increasing use of fossil fuels, ExxonMobil continues to assert undue influence around the world— making record profits while ignoring climate science for which there has been overwhelming consensus for over ten years.

“Flow: the Film” (flowthefilm.com) by Irena Salina is an award-winning documentary investigating the World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

The festival will also be showing a selection of videos submitted by area teachers and high school students on the topic of climate change, global warming,and sustainable or clean energy technology.