Marda Loop Justice Film Festival presents justREEL Film Nights:

On the Edge

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
River Park Church - 3818 14a St SW, Calgary, AB
FREE Admission

justREEL is a bi-monthly feature length documentary series. Now in its eleventh year, justREEL runs from September to May. 

For more than 100 years the East German region of Lusatia has been exploited as a source of energy for Germany. Enormous open pit coal mines have devastated nature, villages and culture. The excavators dig out tons of lignite (brown coal) which is then burned in the nearby power plants. As a result of these operations 136 villages have disappeared. People are now standing up for their rights and are defending their homes. On the Edge follows brave people who are fighting for a renewable future. In the past four years the filmmakers joined the movement and spoke with the people about their motivation, fears and hopes - revealing a growing resistance in times of climate change and the challenge.

Join the post-show conversation with local and international artists and experts.

Conversation Leader:  Ken Hogg

Ken is the owner of Renewable Energy Solutions™, a consulting and teaching business located in Calgary since 2001, with international expertise in reducing energy consumption, increasing energy efficiency, generating energy from renewable sources, and evaluating projects which offer GHG reduction opportunities. Ken is a Civil Engineer (University of Manitoba) with a Master in Environmental Engineering (University of Toronto). He also holds a Green House Gas Validation/Verification Certificate awarded in 2005 by the Federal Government. Ken lectures at the University of Calgary, and has instructed the Renewable Energy Technologies course since 2003.  In 2011, Ken founded the Alberta Renewable Energy Alliance, a grassroots organization with over 900 participants from across Canada with a focus on promoting renewable energy throughout Alberta. Ken is registered with the Professional Engineers of Ontario, and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.  

About Marda Loop Justice Film Festival

The Marda Loop Justice Film Festival uses the medium of film to show recent high quality documentaries in order to draw attention to serious local & global issues. We hope audiences watch a film, stay for the discussion, and visit with local non-government groups and fair trade vendors that will be onsite.

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