Monday, November 1, at 7:30 pm
Margaret Greenham Theatre

The audience traveled to Montana’s Kootenai Valley, where the Rocky Mountain town of Libby bears the scars of more than a half-century of vermiculite mining and Zonolite insulation manufacturing. The discovery that the Libby vermiculite was contaminated with asbestos rocked this picturesque small town to its foundations. Libby, Montana examines the plight of a community faced with asbestos-laden homes and a government that turns its back on the cancer-stricken residents. Once a prosperous mining town, Libby now has the dubious distinction of being the worst case of community-wide toxic exposure in U.S. history. Unlike Michael Moore, filmmakers Drury Gunn Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis do not editorialize, but rather present the facts and let you draw your own conclusion. Doug Hawes-Davis joined us to introduce the film that Mother Jones calls “incisive and unrelenting”.

Then the audience entered the world of a towering figure in American environmentalism: David Brower, who waged the fight of his life to save the pristine canyons of the Colorado River. If you think that you are powerless to fight relentless development and greed, Monumental – David Brower’s Fight to Protect Wild America will change your mind. This documentary shows Brower as an American icon, a filmmaker, and a crusader for environmental causes — a man whose very name inspires people to action. Produced by rising filmmaker Kelly Duane, the film combines archival and new footage with an alternative-country soundtrack. Variety Magazine calls Monumental “stylish and substantial enough to prompt even a couch potato to action”. Patagonia sponsored the distribution as part of their “Vote for the Environment” campaign.

7:30 pm
Libby, Montana
(USA, 2004, 124’)
Directors/Producers: Drury Gunn Carr,
Doug Hawes-Davis*

9:42 pm
Break

9:57 pm
Monumental ― David Brower’s Fight to Protect Wild America
(USA, 2004, 77’)
Director/Producer: Kelly Duane

* In person