Sunday March 6th 1:00 pm
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“This Documentary is a MUST SEE for everyone interested in saving the Human Race! ” – imdb.com “The film is quirky, cheeky, and well narrated.” – Robert Aitken, moviecentral.ca “[A] feisty little film.” – Barbara Yaffe, The Vancouver Sun
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How to Boil a Frog Canada Directed by Jon Cooksey In English Documentary 88 minutes Rated PG: course language
This film will be preceded by a short.
How to Boil a Frog is an eco-comedy promoting activism via video that is in itself a sophisticated example of the medium. It chronicles Jon Cooksey’s personal, three-year adventure as a filmmaker, activist and, above all, a father driven to make sure his twelveyear-old daughter would have a future beyond living on a raft with the last polar bear. It is a rapid fire account of five problems that are bringing the human race to the brink of disaster due to ecological deterioration of the planet. Using available low budget props high in visual humor, Cooksey outlines the impacts of population overshoot, habitat destruction of the natural world, increasing human wealth causing disastrous consumption and further destruction, peak oil and global warming. How to Boil a Frog mixes humor, facts and a sprinkling of experts (in tiny doses) to show how climate change is just one symptom of an even messier problem: overshoot. “Overshoot means too many people using up too little planet,” says Cooksey, “so in the end, we either need fewer people, more planets, or we’re going to have to use less stuff. Or all three. I dib Mars.” With its Everyman approach in the style of Supersize Me, interviews with scientists, journalists and energy experts across North America, How to Boil a Frog takes the kind of material that makes people jump off bridges, puts it in a blender, and churns out a Smoothie o’ Fun that gives you the Big Picture of what the hell is going on with our so-called civilization, and tells you what you can do about it that will not only make a difference, but also make your life better right
now! Convinced of this David and Goliath approach using nothing more than a digital camera, Cooksey delivers his main message “make friends, make fun, make trouble”. And he is infectious in this energy. awards
2010 winner Best Environmental Film Filmshift Festival 2010 winner Best Green Film Mammoth Film Festival 2010 winner Best Documentary Feature, Best Concept, Best Director & Best Visual Effects Los Angeles Movie Awards