The City Dark
Title (Spanish): The City Dark
Title (English): The City Dark
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Completion: 2011
Duration: 84 minutes
Format: DVD
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
| Wednesday 09/09/2012 -- 6:00 PM | Saturday 09/08/2012 -- 7:00 PM |
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Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) |
Galerías PUNTACANA |
Film SynopsisThe Dark City chronicles the disappearance of darkness. When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves to New York City and discovers skies almost completely devoid of stars, a simple question arises – what do we lose, when we lose the night? The film spawns a journey to America’s brightest and darkest corners. Astronomers, cancer researchers, ecologists and philosophers provide glimpses of what is lost in the glare of city lights; blending a humorous, searching tone with poetic footage of the night sky. What unravels is an introduction to the science of the dark, and an exploration of the human relationship to the stars.
Film Credits:
Director/Writer: Ian Cheney
Producers: Ian Cheney, Colin Cheney, Julia Marchasi y Tamara Rosenberg
Editing: Frederick Shanahan y Ian Cheney
Cinematography: Ian Cheney y Taylor Gentry
Director's Biography:
Ian Cheney is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. He grew up in New England and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Yale University. He co-created and starred in the Peabody Award-winning theatrical and PBS documentary King Corn (2007); directed the feature documentary The Greening of Southie (Sundance Channel, 2008); co-produced the Planet Green documentary Big River (2009); and directed the whimsical, 2011 documentary Truck Farm, which featured the farm Cheney planted in the back of his '86 Dodge pickup. He has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Men's Journal, as well as on CNN, MSNBC and ABC's Good Morning America.
Cheney is a co-founder of FoodCorps, a national service program launched in 2011 that places young people in communities that require assistance in planting and tending school gardens. They also provide nutrition education and information on healthy food sources for school cafeterias. In 2011, Cheney and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the Heinz Award for their innovative approach to environmental advocacy.
An avid astro-photographer, Cheney travels frequently to show his films, lead discussions
and give talks about sustainability, agriculture and the human relationship to the natural world. He is currently working on two projects: The Search for General Tso, a documentary about the cultural history of Chinese food in America, and BLUESPACE, a feature documentary about the degradation and renewal of urban waterways and the search for water in outer space.
Community in Action!
Supporting grassroots organizations and communities
Among the goals of the DR Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), is to include and support grassroots organizations and communities, schools and young people in general.
Marcos Diaz
A real Universal Community leader and spokesman for the core values of the UN Millennium Development Goals as it is the Dominican swimmer Marcos Diaz. He will meet a group of youth, who will have a swimming competition, at La Caleta. The expected goals of this activity is to offer an opportunity to youth of disadvantaged areas to interact with Marcos, and to get a better understanding for the role model that Marcos represents for Dominicans and the rest of the world, as well as a better understanding of the sea and this protected area of La Caleta.For more details about Marcos Diaz visit Dominican Get-Together in the Big Apple
Trivias - Dominican Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Environment
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