“Burned” Film Screening and Roundtable Talk

3:00 p.m. Sunday January 28th at the Cummington Community House 33 Main Street Cummington

Snow date: Feb 4th

Join Cummington Trees for a screening of the film “Burned” by Cummington native son, filmmaker Alan Dater and co-filmmaker Lisa Merton. Dater, Merton and Dr. Mary S. Booth will also participate in a roundtable discussion.

Dater and Merton co-directed and co-produced Home to Tibet, a film about a Tibetan refugee’s return to his homeland, shown on many PBS stations, and at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam; Bridge of Fire, the story of the collaboration of a Japanese potter and a Vermont potter, winner of a Cine Golden Eagle, The Best Media Work at the Montréal Festival of Films on Art, and screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Louvre; Wolf Kahn: Landscape Painter, a portrait of the well known American painter, winner of a Cine Golden Eagle; The World in Claire’s Classroom a documentary about an extraordinary Vermont public school teacher; and Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, the dramatic story of Wangari Maathai the founder of The Green Belt Movement of Kenya and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. It has won numerous international awards including The Audience Award at Hot Docs and was broadcast on PBS/ Independent Lens in April 2009.

Dr. Booth is a nationally-recognized advocate known for producing high-quality, data-driven arguments. An ecosystem scientist by training, she received her doctoral degree in Ecology at Utah State University, focusing on biogeochemistry and plant ecophysiology. She currently directs the Partnership for Policy Integrity science and advocacy work on greenhouse gas, air pollutant, and forest impacts of biomass energy and has provided science and policy support to hundreds of activists, researchers, and policy makers across the US and EU.

DATE: Sunday, January 28

TIME: 3:00 PM

LOCATION: Cummington Community House, 33 Main Street Cummington