Schedule of films + speakers
Join us for six days full of festival goodness April 17-22, 2012. All screenings will take place at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, located at 149 West Hastings Street in Vancouver.
FridayApril 207:00pm
The City Dark
85 mins / 2011 / USA A feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question – do we need the stars? – taking him from Brooklyn to Mauna Kea, Paris, and beyond. Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawaii, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights – including increased breast cancer rates from exposure to light at night, and a generation of kids without a glimpse of the universe above. Featuring stunning astrophotography and a cast of eclectic scientists, “The City Dark” is the definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars.
WEBSITE: www.thecitydark.com Screening at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, 149 West Hastings St. in Vancouver map.
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Speaker PanelDouglas Schmitt is a Partner at Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP, where he practices International Maritime and Meteorite Law.His maritime practice spans a variety of issues, including ship arrest, marine insurance subrogation and marine mortgages. He also has extensive courtroom experience at trial and appellate levels. Doug’s maritime clients benefit from his background in oceanography, as he spent a period of time as Chief Oceanographer on the Canadian weather ship Quadra, giving him an unparalleled ability to assess and pre-empt issues from all perspectives. He was also a member of the Canadian delegation to the UN Diplomatic Conference on the Arrest of Ships, in Geneva in 1999. Doug is also an acknowledged international expert in meteorite law. As a member of the Meteoritical Society’s working group, he is at the forefront of advances in the field, drafting the code of ethics for collecting and distributing meteorites. He is a frequent publisher and lecturer on this subject, and has recently addressed the Meteoritical Society by presenting at a conference in Vatican City and at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. Doug is the author of the Canadian chapter in Shipping and International Trade Law (2011) and The Truth about Global Warming (The Advocate, November 2009: 789). |
