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"Go Further " Screening 1/20/2010 5:30 PM @UTC

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Tue, 01/19/2010 - 12:06 — GrundyGreen

When: Wednesday January 20th, 5:30 p.m.
Where: UTC UC Auditorium
Admission: Free

Film to be screened: "Go Further", the 2003 film by award-winning
documentary filmmaker Ron Mann featuring Woody Harrelson on his bio-fueled
bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway.

Host/Discussion Leader: Mike Jaynes

Synopsis of this month’s documentary:

"Go Further", the 2003 film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fueled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway.
Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviors. The travelers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist, a junk-food addict, and a college student who suspends her life to impulsively hop aboard. We see the hostility these pilgrims encounter, and watch as their ideas are challenged from within and without.
We meet an entrepreneur who runs a paper company that does not harm trees; an organic farmer who believes Nature is his partner; a man who teaches environmental activists to use humor as a strategic weapon. And throughout, we see Harrelson test his belief that the transformation of our planet begins with the small personal transformations that are within the grasp of each and every one of us, after which... we'll go further.

This Year, UTC will be home to the second annual Awake and Engage(d) documentary film series hosted alternately by M. Jaynes and Andrew Najberg, Lecturers in English. AWAE, a monthly colloquium, will screen
socially conscious documentary films with the aim of fostering a renewed interest in some of the most pressing issues confronting the graduates of our university in the future. As mainstream media too often ignores the voices of "others" on the periphery and quashes the message of the marginalized, AWAE provides a forum for documentarian narratives that interrogate the status quo and offer alternative perspectives that encourage sustainability, preservation and participation. The films chosen for this series place an emphasis on the civic responsibility of individuals by demonstrating some of the dangers facing the environment, animals, economies and civil rights in the not-so-distant globalized future.
So, this year, please join us at AWAE to discover the work of documentarians advocating social and ecological justice in the modern world.

Email Professor Mike Jaynes achillesjaynes at gmail dot com with any questions you may have, and I hope everyone can come out and take part in the discussion following the film directed by Andrew Najberg.