Feb. 16: Free Film Screening of Bag It at UNCA
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its affect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies.
We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.
Film Screening of Bag It
When: Thursday, February 16
Where: UNC Asheville campus, Asheville NC (Highsmith Union, Room 224 Beaucatcher Mtn Suite)
Cost: FREE!
The film is sponsored by the Western North Carolina Alliance and the Student Environmental Center at UNC Asheville. A panel will follow the film with speakers to be announced soon!
What is Bag It?
Produced by Reel Thing Productions in association with the Telluride Institute, Bag It is a powerful look at the impacts of plastics on society. The film focuses on plastic as it relates to our throwaway mentality, our culture of convenience, our over consumption of unnecessary, disposable products and packaging – things that we use one time and then, without another thought, throw them away. But where is AWAY?? Away is over flowing landfills, clogged rivers, islands of trash in our oceans, and even our very own toxic bodies.
Our story follows Jeb Berrier, an average American guy who is admittedly not a “tree hugger,” who makes a pledge to stop using plastic bags. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average individual who decides to take a closer look at the world’s love affair with plastics. What he discovers is shocking.
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