Third annual Green Film Festival in Woodstock Feb. 28

From press release

WOODSTOCK, Ill.—The Green Sanctuary Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Woodstock (UUCW) will host the third annual Green Film Festival at the church, 221 Dean St., Woodstock, Ill., from 2 to 9 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28.

The festival will showcase three feature documentaries and short films from the 2009 Bioneers Conference.

The Great Story, a documentary portraying the life and work of philosopher and writer Thomas Berry, will be shown at 3 p.m. The film displays the beauty of the natural world as Berry tells the story of the universe emergence and highlights the current critical environmental crisis.

At 5 p.m., Dirt! The Movie will be screened. This winner of multiple film festival awards tells the little-known story of the relationship between humans and “living dirt.”

The World According to Monsanto, which chronicles how just one multinational corporation holds the keys to and patents on much of the world’s food supply, will be shown at 7 p.m.

The Green Sanctuary Committee is the UUCW’s environmental ministry whose mission includes education, advocacy and earth stewardship.
The Festival is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the church at (815) 338-0731, e-mail office@cucofwoodstock.org or visit www.uucofwoodstock.org.

From the Feb. 24-March 2, 2010, issue