The New Environmentalists Heat Up the Mill Valley Film Festival

October 9, 2012

The New Environmentalists: From Kenya to the Arctic Circle, the latest installment of the Emmy-award winning series by Mill Valley Film Group, screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival in Northern California over the weekend.

The film is narrated by Robert Redford and features the work of the 2012 Goldman Prize recipients. Another screening will take place on Friday, October 12, 2012. If you live in the Bay Area and you are interested in attending the screening, click HERE to buy tickets.

If you can’t make it to the film festival, be sure to tune in to KQED-TV, channel 9 on October 15^th at 7:30pm for a local public broadcast of the film.

In the photo above: Directors Will Parrinello and John Antonelli promote The New Environmentalists at the 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival

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