[Scpg] Oct 29/Documentary Film/Monumental--David Brower

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Thank you for helping us publicize our screening of the award-winning
documentary, "Monumental" David Brower's Fight for Wild America
Friday Oct. 29 at 7 pm at the Marjorie Luke Theatre on the SB Junior High
School campus, 721 E. Cota, Santa Barbara, CA

This Santa Barbara movie premiere will benefit the Visual Arts and Design
Academy (VADA) at Santa Barbara High School. Tickets are $10/students,
and $15/general admission, and can be purchased at Tixstar.com -
800-504-TKTS.

SYNOPSIS
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America

This film by up-and-coming independent filmmaker Kelly Duane offers an
intimate look at the golden age of the environmental movement through the
compelling and colorful life of David Brower, arguably the greatest
environmentalist of the twentieth century.
If you've ever wondered what a single person can do against the relentless
onslaught of development, wait until you see the charismatic and enigmatic
David Brower push the 1964 Wilderness Act through Congress, and then go on
to save the Grand Canyon from damming and help establish the Redwoods
National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore.
Ahead of his time, Brower understood the power of the image to spread his
message. He was an avid filmmaker, and was the first to use photographs by
great artists such as Ansel Adams in hard-hitting lobbying and advertising
campaigns to win over the hearts of the American public, and the minds of
many Washington politicians. A self-made man who held the banner of
environmental protection, Brower moved into the elite circles of John F.
Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, and Stewart Udall. An uncompromising idealist,
Brower pushed the environmental movement to achieve unprecedented wins.
With a playful visual aesthetic, a cool alt-country soundtrack, and 16 mm
hand-held wilderness footage, largely shot by Brower himself between
1930-70, Monumental documents Brower's journey as he transforms the Sierra
Club from a regional hiking group into a national political force. The
viewer sees through Brower's own eyes a 1956 raft trip down Glen Canyon,
before its damming that evokes the awful sadness of losing public land we've
failed to protect. And in period footage of Brower's early rock-climbs--done
in sneakers, with hemp ropes--and of his training of the 10th Mountain
Division and participation in their victory against the Nazis in the high
Alps, Brower emerges as an unlikely and inspiring national hero.
Monumental is the story of a true American legend, an artist, a publisher, a
filmmaker and a zealous crusader whose fiery dedication and activism
inspired the environmental movement.
Says film director Duane, "I wanted to make a film that would speak to all
generations about a man and a movement that has provided us all with
timeless treasures. Right now it seems Brower's story is more important than
ever. My hope is that the unrelenting, against-all-odds determination and
success, central to this film's theme will be contagious."
Filmmaker Kelly Duane is based in San Francisco. She founded Loteria Films
after co-directing and producing her first documentary film, "See How They
Run," which chronicled the 1999 Willie Brown mayoral bid for re-election in
the city of San Francisco. Prior to her career in filmmaking, Duane was a
photojournalist and photo editor for Random House and Chronicle Books.

Visit www.Loteriafilms.org for more information, reviews, and a list of
screenings.
Contact Adrienne O’Donnell @ 689-6339 for more information about this
screening. Tickets are available through the VADA office at SBHS, or though
TixStar:
3 convenient ways to purchase through Tixstar:
tixstar.com
open 24/7       800.504.tkts
open 12-5 mon-fri       walk-up @ paseo nuevo
open 12-5 wed-sun
our new walk-up location is at 6 b de la guerra next to the paseo nuevo
cinema