Hey folks, I am looking for peeps that want to check out some SIFF movies, let me know if you are interested in any of the following, looking at gettings some folks together.

Food, Inc.
Egyptian Theatre
May 30, 2009 4:15 PM
You are what you eat, the saying goes. But do you really KNOW what you eat? Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the curtain on the unsavory practices of our nation’s food industry. The film illustrates how the corporate purveyors of food products have literally gotten away with murder—and all with the complicity of our government’s regulatory agencies. As Kenner shows in detail, the food supply in the United States is controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit before health—not only of the consumers of their processed foodstuffs, but the economic health of farmers and food workers, and the health of the environment.

Pirate for the Sea
Egyptian Theatre
May 30, 2009 11:00 AM
Hero to conservationists and villain to hunters, marine environmentalist Paul Watson commits himself 100 percent to his cause. In this stirring profile, director and narrator Ron Colby explores Watson's beliefs, blunders, and triumphs. Though Watson helped to found Greenpeace Canada, the organization asked him to leave due to his extremist tendencies, so he started the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He travels from Norway to Costa Rica, standing trial, doing time, and costing various nations millions of dollars by breaking up drift-netting, illegal poaching, and shark-finning operations (the latter campaign was also featured in Sharkwater SIFF '07).

Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle

Pacific Place Cinema
June 1, 2009 7:15 PM

Twenty years ago, director Kevin Tomlinson traveled to Tonasket, a small town in Eastern Washington, where he interviewed a “healing gathering” of back-to-the-land movement “hippies” practicing peace and love. Forty years after Woodstock, he tracked down the same folks and their children to find out what became of them and their search for environmental utopias.

The End of the Line
Pacific Place Cinema
May 30, 2009 4:00 PM
In the 1990s, uncontrolled fishing caused the seemingly endless stock of cod in Nova Scotia to run dry. Now nearly two decades later, overfishing threatens to become a global ecological disaster. Director Rupert Murray (Unknown White Male) travels the world to discover who is responsible for the overfishing and what can be done to correct the problem before it's too late. Enlisting the help of Charles Clover, author of the book of the same name, The End of the Line tackles the complexities of overfishing head on and from all angels. From rural fishing villages where fisherman must now migrate with the fish to survive, to the large corporate fleets fishing beyond accepted quotas, Murray expertly captures the chaotic battle for the future of the world's oceans. A vibrant travelogue with a powerful message, The End of the Line will forever change the way you think about your next seafood dinner.