Events
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Community Documentary Film Screening at the State House Lawn
Montpelier, VT
Join SunCommon and the Vermont Youth Documentary Lab, for a free film screening on the State House lawn in Montpelier on Thursday September 2nd from 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM. We’ll be watching the new documentary “The Ants and the Grasshopper” co-directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper.
The Vermont Youth Documentary Lab (VYDL) is a new artist-run project of ORCA Media, the non-profit community-access media center in Montpelier. The Doc Lab hosts youth media education programs in documentary and experimental filmmaking, video journalism, photography, and audio podcasting, with an emphasis on nonfiction storytelling and youth representation.
This film screening is a free event, open to the public, with optional donations to support the work of VYDL. Learn more about VYDL here: vermontyouthdocumentarylab.com
This event is co-hosted and sponsored by SunCommon. SunCommon and VYDL have partnered in this work as we both believe in the power of film and storytelling to inspire action in addressing our climate crisis and specifically the impact of centering the youth perspective.
About “The Ants & the Grasshopper”
Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.