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ELEMENTAL (2012, 92 mins) • Elementalthefilm.com
Tuesday, February 25 @ 6:30pm
Lowell National Historical Park | 246 Market Street, Lowell
Free admission (Donations welcome and appreciated!)
See an environmentally themed film on the last Tuesday of each month from January to June! The “Land, Air & Water” Eco Film Series is proudly co-presented with our good friends at Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust with support from our venue host, Lowell National Historical Park.
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ABOUT THIS MONTH’S FILM: Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time. The film follows Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, on a 40-day pilgrimage down India’s once pristine Ganges river, now polluted and dying. Facing community opposition and personal doubts, Singh works to shut down factories, halt construction of dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat their sacred “Mother Ganga” with respect. Across the globe in northern Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit larger than the state of Florida. A young mother and native Denè, Deranger struggles with family challenges while campaigning tirelessly against the Tar Sands and its proposed 2,000-mile Keystone XL Pipeline, which are destroying Indigenous communities and threatening an entire continent. [Read more »]
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