Today’s “Transparent Radiation” tops my list of must see films

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Vermont’s first real chill of cool fall weather sets the stage for the 26th year of the Vermont Film Festival, which began yesterday (Friday October 21) and runs through Sunday October 30.

Check out the list of films,17 of which have been created by Vermont filmmakers! Many of the films also include panel discussions, food samples, or time to meet writers and directors.  

My first choice today is Transparent Radiation, a film created by the Gund Institute filmmaker Hillary Archer that debuts today at 5 pm at the Palace 9 Theater in South Burlington.  This free showing includes a follow-up panel discussion with Ms. Archer and her colleagues from the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at UVM.

Set amid the world’s historic transition toward energy sustainability, this 30-minute documentary provides a holistic outlook on nuclear energy with the intention of empowering new perspectives and solutions for the future. Over twenty people from the Gund participated, including Gund Fellows John Todd, Gary Flomenhoft, Austin Troy, Josh Farley, Diane Gayer, and Saleem Ali. Transparent Radiation was written, directed, and edited by Hillary Archer, with Jon Erickson as executive producer.

According to UVM’s Gund Institute for Ecological Economics website, Ms. Archer

uses the film medium to explore storytelling as a way to channel new experiences for humanity and exercise human consciousness.

A 2010 UVM graduate from The Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources with a BS in Natural Resources/Urban Ecology, and minor in Film, Ms. Archer works as the Media Communications Project Manager at the Gund Institute with the goal of creating

engaging videos that effectively communicate the unique energy, depth, and lessons of ecological economics to the greater community.

Also special screening tomorrow at UVM: as a Feature of the 2011 Inaugural Conference of UVM’s Institute of Environmental Diplomacy

When: Sunday OCT 23, 10:30 – 11:30AM

Where: Billings Lecture Hall, UVM, Burlington VT

Discussion to follow screening with Director, Executive Producer, and Gund Institute members of the film.  

One thought on “Today’s “Transparent Radiation” tops my list of must see films”

  1. Yes!

    That’s the single most important transformationthe U.S. economy has to make overall; and apparently, the most difficult to embrace.  That’s because there is so much money to be made by speculators in feeding wasteful, destructive appetites; and once more when remediation finally becomes unavoidable.

    The current economic model that holds perpetual “growth” as the ideal is fatally flawed and will simply succeed in moving us from catastrophic bubble to catastrophic bubble, with all sorts of collateral damage (like the Fukushima failure) in it’s wake.  

     

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