Film Schedule

• February 17, 2012, 7pm

  Animal Endurance: The Turin Horse

• February 18, 2012, 7pm

  The Politics of Oil: Crude

• February 19, 2012, 2pm

  Global Warming and Endangered Peoples: The Island President

• February 20, 2012, 7pm

  Debts to Nature and Society: Payback

• February 21, 2012 7pm

  Environmental Activism after 9/11: If a Tree Falls

• February 22, 2012, 7pm

  The Importance of the Night Sky: The City Dark

• February 23, 2012, 7pm

  Taking Urban Agriculture on the Road: Truck Farm

• February 24, 2012, 7pm

  Ethnomusicology and Ecology in Africa: OKA!

• February 25, 2012, 7pm

  Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic: Green Fire

Taking Urban Agriculture on the Road: Truck Farm

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7pm

Credits

Director, Ian Cheney (USA, 48m, 2011)

Official Website

Truck Farm is a whimsical, musically-narrated, documentary film about urban agriculture. Filmmaker Ian Cheney planted a 1/1000th-acre farm in the back of his 1986 Dodge pick-up-truck in the spring of 2009, after coming to New York City and lacking any other place of his own to grow food. Using green-roof materials, heirloom seeds, and a healthy dose of optimism and humor, Ian created a mobile community farm that yielded a wide range of vegetables and led to the discovery and exploration of other creative, quirky, community-based agriculture efforts all over the city.

The film will be introduced by Professor Kip Curtis and the Eckerd College organic gardeners.

News & Views

• February 27, 2012

  The 2012 award recipients have been announced, click here to see the winners.

• January 19, 2012

  The 2012 films have been announced, learn more.

• March 1, 2011

  The 2011 award recipients have been announced, click here to see the winners.

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