http://www.snhu.edu/7984.asp

For directions to the Cape Ann Community Cinema visit
http://www.whodecides.net/EVENTS.html

Past screenings have included:

Sunday, January 10th at 2pm @ Cape Ann Community Cinema
Saturday, January 16th at 3:30pm @ Cape Ann Discovery Center at Ravenswood Park*
Thursday, January 28th at 6pm @ Lanesville Community Center *

On December 1, 2009, high school students from the Brother Rice Global Action Debate Team screened The Water Front at the first Detroit Wild and Scenic Film Festival for environmental awareness. The Brother Rice Global Action Debate Team held the film festival as part of the team’s third year of participation in the renowned United Nations Foundation’s Global Debates Program. This program challenges high school students from around the world to think critically on pressing global issues.

The Brother Rice Global Action Debate Team invited over 100 area middle school students to screen several environmental films and speak with invited guests. After the screening of The Water Front, students held a discussion with Highland Park Council Member, Christopher Woodard and the film’s associate producer, Curtis Smith. The students were encouraged to not only become aware of local environmental issues, but more importantly to become change agents in their communities.

Brother Rice High School is a male Catholic college preparatory high school located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

http://www.pr.com/press-release/165264

The United Nations Foundation is committed to engaging people everywhere of all ages, but particularly young people who the power to make a difference.

http://www.unfoundation.org/our-solutions/campaigns/the-people-speak/

Location: Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State St.
Speaker: Associate producer, Curtis D. Smith

Join us for a discussion of this award-winning film with associate director Curtis D. Smith immediately following the film. Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the MLK Planning Committee and the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Contact the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, (734) 936-1055

http://mlksymposium.umich.edu/?m=20100121&cat=3

Curtis D. Smith is the associate producer of The Water Front. This award winning documentary film follows one of the first water battles playing out in North America, in Highland park, Michigan, from an environmental justice perspective.

Mr. Smith is the Housing Development Director for the Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS). His recent activities have focused on developing affordable housing in Detroit, Michigan for homeless families with children.

In addition, Mr. Smith’s other experiences include serving as the Acting Director for the Department of Community and Economic Development for the City of Highland Park, Michigan, and as a community planner with the Boston, Massachusetts based, urban planning consulting firm, Capital Needs Unlimited. Both of these positions focused on developing affordable housing in the metropolitan Detroit area.

Mr. Smith is a graduate of the University of Michigan, having received a Master of Urban and Regional Planning (Economic Development) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

www.waterfrontmovie.com

http://www.cbc.ca/outfront/media/2009%20MP3's/09-05-01-outfront.mp3

"Water is not only an issue affecting poor countries. Everywhere in the world, people are facing a diversity of difficulties in accessing water. And the characters Liz Miller choose to portray in her film are particularly strong, in their interesting way of facing up the situation, reacting, gathering, getting involved and fighting together. Covering all water issues, from pricing to privatization and – above all- the human right to WATER, this film sends a strong message on the way public participation and action can overcome problems".

Melanie Giard, Communication Officer at the World Water Council and Kostas Vassilakis, Official Secretary of the Special Permanente Environment Protection Committee.