We spent all afternoon and evening at the film festival yesterday, starting with a film that traces 150 years of interaction between the petroleum industry and alternative fuels, takes a look at renewable alternative fuels such as bio-diesel and ethanol, and comments on the global impact of these fuels.
The film, currently showing at http://www.mofilms.org/, features testimonies from activists Darryl Hannah and Willie Nelson, as well as humor from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central, and animated character Homer Simpson of "The Simpsons."
However intriguing alternative fuels may be, it doesn't appear that they will be readily (and inexpensively) available at filling stations in the near future. Even so, the film is interesting.
Following this film, we saw a documentary in progress about an early to mid-1900s rural photographer who went virtually unnoticed during his lifetime, but has since gained fame for his Great Depression and WWII era portraits of unsophisticated people in a small community.
We ended the festival with several independent film offerings that didn't strike a positive chord with us. But that's the way with film festivals...you immerse yourself and come away enlightened sometimes, delighted sometimes, and disappointed sometimes.
I look forward to next year's festival.
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