Smartscreens is an initiative based at the Centre for Fine Arts Animation and Design to encourage critical engagement with film. It facilitates free public screenings of films on local and global issues.
Two films will be hosted on October 15: The Story of Stuff and The 11th Hour.
The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard (20 mins) is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the link between the production and social issues. “You will learn a lot, laugh out loud and be inspired to change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever,” says CFAD. “With over 12 million on-line views, it is one of the most widely viewed environmental short films of all time.”
Screened at 14h30, The 11th Hour by Leonardo DiCaprio (90 minutes) features over 50 of the world’s most prominent thinkers and activists including physicist Stephen Hawking and African Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai on the crises of global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction and depletion of the oceans' habitats. However, the most powerful element of The 11th Hour is not the depiction of a planet in crisis, but the possibilities for an alternative future that is sustainable and achievable.
The films will be screened from 14h00 on October 15 at the Centre for Fine Arts Animation and Design, 183 Cowey Road, Morningside, Durban.
For more information, contact CFAD on 031 240 8402 / or go to Facebook group SmartScreens. Entrance is free and seats are available on a first come first served basis. Refreshments available but patrons are free to bring their own.