Confluence Literary Festival

Start Time: 7:00 PM
Length: 2 hours
Location: Star Hall
Price: $10.00

Mountainfilm in Moab Friday

Mountainfilm in Telluride is America's leading independent documentary film festival. As they say on their website, www.mountainfilm.org, "Mountainfilm is an assembly of people who come together to see what the human spirit can achieve. Our festival is a place for understanding how another human being's struggle is also our own; a place for both asking impossible questions and explaining the previously unexplainable; a place to learn, be inspired and to celebrate indomitable spirit."

This year, Mountainfilm in Telluride begins with a full-day symposium on food. Those of us here at Confluence were thrilled about this idea and hatched a plan. Perfect! we said. Now, let's bring part of the symposium to Moab.

Confluence is proud to partner with Mountainfilm in order to bring 2009's best independent films about sustainability and food to Moab. Sponsored by Sgt. Peppers Music and Video.

We'll show 2 different evenings of film on Thursday Oct. 22nd and Friday, October 23rd.

Friday's lineup:

Food Fight (short), 6 min. - An abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.

Titans of the Coral Sea, 15 min. - This film studies the Titan people of Papua New Guinea in a classic story of an ancient society learning to survive in a modern world. These subsistence fishermen are
running out of their catch and trying to do something to ensure there will be enough left for their children.

Greina- Greina is a film about slow food - specifically cheese making and how regulation of milk production and requirements for pasteurization are killing a centuries old tradition and ruining the quality of food. Very beautiful and interesting.

Look to the Ground, 6 min.

--Intermission 15 minutes--

Seeds in the City, 24 min. - Learn the remarkable story of the people of Havana and how they averted a food-shortage disaster by creating thousands of urban farms in a city better known for its
music and nightlife. Faced with food shortages and widespread hunger, Cuban city dwellers began growing food wherever possible: on rooftops, in schoolyards and in front of office buildings.

History Making Farming Author on the Move, 7 min.

Fridays at the Farm, 19 min. - Feeling disconnected from their food, a photographer/filmmaker and his family decide to join a community-supported organic farm. Hoffman moves from passive
observer to active participant as he photographs the natural processes of food cultivation. Featuring lush time-lapse and macro photography sequences compiled from nearly 20,000 still images, this personal essay is a meditation on the miracles of life.