Environmental Change and a 21st Century Survival Guide: “Fall and Winter” film screening and Q & A with Canadian filmmaker Matt Anderson at Wallace State on Thursday, Sept. 12

Hanceville, Ala. – Wallace State Community College and The Evelyn Burrow Museum present “Fall and Winter” with filmmaker Matthew Anderson as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers on campus at the Burrow Center Recital Hall on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m.
Following a screening of the film, “Fall and Winter,” Anderson and the audience will engage in a discussion about the film and his work as a filmmaker. A reception with the filmmaker will follow. Admission is free.
“Fall and Winter” is an epic and spectacular journey across the U.S. in search of what is causing our unfolding global crisis. Pollution, droughts and diminishing resources now threaten the very engine driving these catastrophes: civilization itself.
This stunning film takes you on a Koyaanisqatsi-style journey, reaching to the past to understand the origins of the catastrophic environmental transitions we now face. Over two years, director Matt Anderson traveled 16,000 miles to document firsthand the environmental destruction and urban wastelands across America. Some of today’s most progressive thinkers, from anthropologists and bio-architects to psychologists and journalists, collectively recreate a story of humanity and the history of Earth, presenting a desperately needed survival guide to make the transition in the coming ecological and psychological crisis.
Matt Anderson is a Canadian filmmaker. After growing up on a small island off the coast of Vancouver he attended Vancouver Film School and subsequently moved to New York to pursue filmmaking. He has directed countless commercials, music videos and short documentaries.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. South Arts is a nonprofit regional arts organization founded in 1975 to build on the South’s unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts’ work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. South Arts offers an annual portfolio of activities designed to address the role of the arts in impacting the issues important to our region, and to link the South with the nation and the world through the arts. www.southarts.org
This is the first film in a series of independent films to be shown at Wallace State in 2013-14. Wallace State is one of 24 venues across the southeast selected as a screening venue and awarded a grant from the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Film Makers.
For more information about Wallace State’s screening of “Fall and Winter,” call 256.352.8118 or 8457, or visit www.wallacestate.edu/artscalendar.
 
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