"Flow" Film Showing

Our club is planning a showing of the documentary Flow sometime this semester. The film won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of our current water crisis. The topic relates to people everywhere, and we thought it would be a useful, inspiring, and informative movie to present to the Pleasanton community.

We will show the film for free in the multipurpose room and possibly sell popcorn or cookies at the event to raise funds for the club and help offset the cost of renting the MP. It will be open to the public and we would encourage teachers to give extra credit to students who attend. The event will be all about raising awareness for the issue the movie discusses.

Here's a link to the trailer: http://www.flowthefilm.com/trailer

From the movie's website:
"Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question 'CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?'

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround."

For more information on the film, please visit the website at http://www.flowthefilm.com/.