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# Silver screen goes green at SMC
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/silver-screen-goes-green-at-smc/
- Published: 2005-04-20T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:41:55.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

This week, Santa Monica College is hosting its first Earth Day Film Festival.

The festival will feature 10 hours of film screenings along with discussion, including an appearance by actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr.

Special guests also include author Adeline Peter Raboff who appeared in “Oil on Ice,” which recently won Best Documentary Short at the International Documentary Awards. The film connects the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to critical decisions about energy policy.

Other films dealing with energy include: “The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror,” which will be followed by discussion with filmmakers Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy; “Global Warming,” narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio; and the comedic short documentaries, “The Veggie Van Voyage” by Joshua Tickell and “SUV Taggers” by Judith Vogelsang.

Venice filmmaker Ziri Rideaux will show “Treewoman,” a film about Julia Butterfly Hill, the young woman who lived in an ancient redwood tree for two years. Producers Geoffrey Holland and Greg Molina discuss “Cost of Cool,” which addresses ways in which young people can enjoy high quality lives while being less focused on possessions and materialism. The festival ends with “The Corporation,” which looks at the role of corporations in shaping the world.

The festival — which honors the 35th anniversary of Earth Day — is scheduled from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, April 22, and 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 23\. The event is free, but seating is limited in the venue, room 214 in the art complex, 1900 Pico Blvd.

For information, call (310) 434-8278 or go to: http://www.smc.edu/comm/Earth DayFilmFestival.

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experiences of Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a redwood tree for two years, will be featured in a film showing at Santa Monica College. (Photo: Photo courtesy The)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 20, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042005.pdf?ref=smdp.com)