Friday, February 19, 2010

Tap Water to the Rescue

There have been handfuls of films released in the past couple years addressing environmental issues--from Food, Inc. to Gasland to King Corn to An Inconvenient Truth--but none of them have tackled the issue of water as aggressively, as honestly and as artistically as Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey did in 2009's Tapped.


Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity to be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? This feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water. This timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Using interviews, quirky graphics and honest imagery, Tapped is made someone who really, truly, genuinely cares about this issue.

This fast-paced, well-narrated, and highly educational film looks at the illegal bottling practices of Nestle, cancer-causing factories and the overall state of the country's tap water. Tapped is definitely a flick that will leave viewers dying to learn more.

2 comments:

channy k-b said...

Hello I am doing a study for my documentary class on your Film Festival
Each student of 17 students do a study on a Festival, then we traid information to encourage students to enter Festivals suitable to their favoured genres etc.

We are told to contact the film Festival Directly for part of the information. I go to UNCW, Im an exchange student from Australia

Could you help me by responding to the top 5 questions in particular and the BACK TO BASICS COUPLE?
And any help you can give me toward the others will be Greatly appreciated!!

My assignment is due the Monday 29th of March coming.


1. BASED ON THE PAST 3 YRS WHAT TYPE OF FILMS GET PROGRAMMED? (e.g. Shorts, features, political, global, local, gender, sexuality, race, themes?)

2. From this information what are the ODDS OF ACCEPTANCE?

3.HOW MANY ENTRIES DID THEY GET THIS YEAR?

4.HOW MANY ENTRIES DID THEY GET LAST YEAR?

5. HOW MANY ENTRIES ARE/WERE DOCUMENTARY SHORTS?

BACK TO BASICS:
Who made it happen & who runs it now?
What’s the mission?


Also in addition if you can help...

Where is it? When is it? And when is the deadline for entrees?
WHAT DO YOU DO TO ENTER?
WHO’S ELIGIBLE, IS THERE A STUDENT CATEGORY?
WHAT ARE THE GUIDELINES?
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ENTER? Early, Regular, Late, Student –
ARE THERE PRIZES?




Thanks heaps for your time =)
Peace out

From Channy k-b


P.s. if you can be of no help is there someone you could recommend?

channy k-b said...

cjk7318@uncw.edu is my contact =)