Street Movies! @ The Bowl at Clark Park

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Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive
August 3, 2011 - August 27, 2011

Join Scribe and Jubilee School, and the Green Guerillas (who will power the screening from their eco-friendly bus) for Street Movies! featuring short films about W.E.B. Dubois, Kenyan sci-fi, green energy and transportation.

Saturday, August 6, 2011
WEST PHILADELPHIA
Host: Jubilee School
Location: The Bowl @ Clark Park
45th Street & Kingsessing Avenue
Opening performance by Tanzanian, Philly based hip hop artist, Alwatan Kwele

The Future of Our History
by Jubilee School
K-6 students of Jubilee spend two years studying W.E.B. Du Bois, making a pilgrimage to Great Barrington, MA, where they visit the graves of Du Bois' wife and young son. (2011, 15 min)

Pumzi
by Wanuri Kahiu
35 years after “The Water War” has ruined earth’s surface, a young woman defies the governing council of her indoor community, escapes to the outside to plant a growing seedling. (Kenya, 2009, 21 min) Philadelphia Premiere

Green Grease Guzzlers
by Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective (in person)
A story about alternative and sustainable transportation, this excerpt showcases Green Guerrillas ona move, making their collective’s transportation more "eco-friendly" with the conversion of a 1990 Ford Econoline diesel bus into a lean and green biodiesel/waste veggie oil machine. (2010, 30 min). Philadelphia Premiere

Save the Future
by Jenny Deller (in-person)
A young girl re-imagines her life as a PSA, blurring the lines between her family troubles and environmental catastrophe. Save the Future is a companion short to her feature “Future Weather” about global warming. The whole production was environmentally conscious. (2009, 3 min)