MIDDLETOWN — The next screening of the Coyote Film Festival takes place at 2 p.m. and at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Calpine Geothermal Visitors Center off Central Park Road in Middletown
July”s main film is “Call of the Hummingbird” by Alice Klein. In the gorgeous setting of central Brazil, a rag tag group of 1,000 permaculture experts, Rastafarians, alternative health practitioners, 13 Moon Calendar followers and NGO executives work toward a do-it-yourself action plan to make the world a better place in 13 days! But who is going to deal with the garbage?
Welcome to “Survivor” for social change addicts, where consensus is the only way to make decisions. Anyone can speak, for as long as they like about whatever they want, and they do!
The film”s fascinating characters take us on a journey that covers terrain from the practices of permaculture and consensus facilitation all the way to the meaning of the Mayan calendar, which mysteriously ends in 2012 ? just a few short years away. In the process we are introduced to new ideas about politics, nature and even time itself.
There will also be a short film and animation. The program runs approximately 90 minutes.
Parental discretion is advised due to nudity and language. Cost at the door is $10 for adults and $5 for 16 and younger. Doors open one half hour before screening. Coyote Popcorn and refreshments will be for sale.
There is time for lunch or dinner at any of the restaurants in and around Middletown as well as picnicking at the benches and tables on the Calpine grounds.
August”s main film is “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea” with guest director, Christopher Metzler. In September, Coyote Film Festival is screening ” Sherman ”s Way,” a romantic comedy partly shot in Lake County and winning independent festival awards. Organizers are working out the details of a planned appearance by the film”s director, Craig Saavedra.
Coyote Film Festival is the fundraising arm of EcoArts of Lake County, an arts non-profit dedicated to bringing visual arts opportunities and education as well as ecologic stewardship to the residents and visitors of Lake County. Visit www.EcoArtsofLakeCounty.org or www.CoyoteFilmFestival.org.
Visit the EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk, ongoing at the Middletown County Trailside Park.
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