Wesleyan Earth Day – Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Mar. 31, 2009 by ngarrett
Filmmaker, eco-activist, and reality-TV survivor Shalini Kantayya, from 7th Empire Media, presents her film A Drop Of Life during this year’s Wesleyan University Earth Day Celebration.
Shalini Kantayya appeared on the television reality show On the Lot, created by Steven Spielberg to find Hollywood’s next great director. Out of more than 12,000 filmmakers, she was the only woman to finish in the top ten.
Her production company, 7th Empire Media, is committed to using media to give a powerful voice to the unheard. Her film, A Drop Of Life, a futuristic sci-fi flick about the mounting global water crisis, has been used by The African Water Network, as an organizing tool in more than 40 villages across Africa.
Set in the near future, A Drop Of Life is the story of two women, a village teacher in rural India and an African American corporate executive, whose disparate lives intersect when they are both confronted with lack of access to clean drinking water.
Join us for our annual Earth Day Celebration at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts Cinema on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. This screening is free and open to the general public, with a reception immediately following.
The Earth Day Celebration is sponsored by The Robert Schumann Lecture Series for the Environmental Studies Program at Wesleyan University, in collaboration with Feet to the Fire: Exploring Global Climate Change from Science to Art and the Environmental Organizer’s Network (EON).
For more information, please contact Valerie Marinelli at vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu or (860) 685-3733.
