This screening is scheduled for Saturday October 16, 1pm at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.

Bag It - Is your life too plastic?
Suzan Beraza
USA, 2010, 78 min.
Documentary
Canadian Premiere

The idealism surrounding the budding culture of plastics and the convenience of ‘disposable living’ in the 1960s was dependent upon one key item - the garbage can. With an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mentality we are able to convince ourselves that single-use disposables - beverage containers, food packaging, razors, diapers - actually go away. In this compelling and entertaining documentary, Jeb Berrier, a charismatic everyman father-to-be, sets out on an adventuresome journey to discover the sobering environmental, physical, psychological and economic implications of the number one consumer item in the world - the plastic bag.

Preceded by:

Bottom of the River
Alasdair Brotherston, Jock Mooney
UK/ Canada, 2009, 3 min.
Toronto Premiere

As garbage is dumped into a dirty river, The Tom Fun Orchestra poses the question of “What has the world come to?” in this animated music video with a very catchy tune.

Feel What They Feel
Chin Tangsakulsathaporn
USA/ Thailand, 2010, 3 min.
Experimental
World Premiere

Call it ‘method axing’, filmmaker Chin Tangsakulsathaporn urges us to cut out our rampant use of plastic bags by recreating the plastic-infested habitat in which many animals live.

This screening is scheduled for Saturday October 16, 1pm at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.