DP Films that sustain The Santa Monica Public Library presents Sustainable Cinema. The library is showing four films that examine the relationship between humans and planet Earth. The films will be shown monthly from February through May. All films will screen in the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium in the Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.
The series begins with a screening of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m.; a panel discussion with environmental experts will follow. In March, the film “Super Size Me” is featured; it will screen at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” will be shown on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. The final film in the series, “Fast Food Nation,” will screen on Wednesday, May 16, at 7 p.m. This program series is co-sponsored by the Environmental Programs Division of the City of Santa Monica.
These programs are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-arrival basis.
For more information, contact the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600; or on the Web site at www.smpl.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 11, 2007. Read the original PDF.