Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, email: margie@sbpermaculture.org

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
 ECO-Film Night

Premier Showing of
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution
with Award Winning Film Maker Vanessa Schulz

Friday, June 13, 7-9pm
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery


         Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network for the premier showing of the documentary film Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution with award winning film maker Vanessa Schulz.  Part of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network ECO-Film Night series, the event takes place on Friday, June 13th, at 7pm.
 
In May 2007, the 8th International Permaculture Convergence (IPC8) was held in Brazil, bringing together visionary activists from around the world.   New to Permaculture,  Vanessa Schulz spent a month in Brazil attending the conference and later visiting four ground breaking Permaculture Centers, learning permaculture in settings both urban and rural, in the beautiful and varied landscape of Brazil.   From the enormous metropolitan city of Sao Paulo, to the Cerrado (savannah) in central Brazil,  to the heart of Amazonia, and finally the historic Bahia region, the story of Permaculture is told.

The film discusses mainstream media's failure to provide accurate news of the world's dire environmental predicament, and some of the strategies permaculturists propose, giving critical inspiration needed to turn our backs on what is failing us.  Permaculture (PERMAnent CULTURE) is a design system based on ecological principles for creating sustainable human environments and is a whole systems approach suggesting positive solutions for a rapidly changing world.

 
Vanessa Schulz, originally from South Africa, began freelancing in the film industry in 1994 while attending Cape Town Film & Television School.  After emigrating to the United States she began  working for for NBC, Fox, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel. She founded 21st Paradigm ( www.21paradigm.com), an independent media company committed to airing subject matter difficult and often times ignored by main stream media.  Her documentary Call to Freedom, a film about the re-introduction of wolves to Idaho in the 1990's, generating heated controversy, shows all the intensity of the passions that motivate all sides of the wolf issue.  It garnered many awards including Best Documentary at the Female Eye Film Festival (2003),  Merit for Conservation Advocacy award at the International Wildlife Film Festival (2003), and Official Selection, Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour  (2004-5).

Vanessa will be present at the ECO-Film night, and both Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution and Call to Freedom will be shown and available for purchase.   The event takes place at the Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 East Anapamu St, in downtown Santa Barbara, on Friday, June 13, 7-9pm.  No reservations are required, admission donation $5. For more information please call (805) 962-2571, or email margie@sbpermaculture.org, www.sbpermaculture.org.


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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
   an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
 www.sbpermaculture.org

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