[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”138606″ img_size=”500 x 700″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Conservation Council is hosting a pair of film screenings with award-winning independent filmmaker Neal Livingston on June 12 and June 13, including the 40th anniversary screening of Budworks, a film about the controversial, decades-long budworm spraying program in New Brunswick that was featured in Rachel Carson’s seminal book, Silent Spring.
Watch Budworks (1978 – 35 minutes) with filmmaker Neal Livingston at Conserver House (180 St. John St., Fredericton) on Tuesday, June 12 at 7 p.m.
The next night (Wednesday, June 13), Livingston will screen his latest film, 100 Short Stories (2016 – 68:30 minutes), an inspiring film about the struggle against gas fracking and renewable energy in Cape Breton, at Conserver House at 7 p.m.
Admission to each film is by donation. Livingston will be on hand for discussion following each film.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”138607″ img_size=”500 x 350″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow”][vc_column_text]Budworks takes an in-depth look at the politics and environmental decision-making surrounding New Brunswick’s controversial aerial insecticide spraying program which began in the 1950s and ran for decades, and how spraying was stopped in Cape Breton with the lead activist being a young activist Elizabeth May. An important part of New Brunswick’s history, the film explores the role of government and community activists, and examines the economic and health impacts of aerial insecticide spraying. It was featured in “What’s Happening?”— a weekly series of new films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1978.
100 Short Stories is a first-person account of the years-long struggle to develop Black River Wind’s renewable energy project while the community of Inverness County worked to stop oil and gas drilling and fracking on Cape Breton Island. With a focus on eco-activism and contemporary life in Atlantic Canada, the film explores energy policy, governance and regional culture in Nova Scotia. Premiering in Halifax in 2016, the film has received wide recognition, including the 2017 Energy Award at Cinema Verde in Gainesville, Florida, and presentations at the Planet in Focus Festival 2016 in Toronto, and the Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary in Turkey 2017.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1527685857313{margin-top: -15px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1527689184438{margin-top: -15px !important;}”]Neal Livingston has been making films for more than 40 years. He lives in the Mabou Inverness area on Cape Breton Island, where he also makes art, runs a renewable energy business, is an active woodlot owner and runs a commercial maple syrup farm.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”138608″ style=”vc_box_border_circle” css=”.vc_custom_1527685840634{margin-top: -35px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1527685783092{margin-top: -30px !important;}”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text][custom-skins-contact-form-7 id=”138609″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]