Scene and Heard Film Series Presents

Join us for our monthly Scene and Heard Film Series, this month we will be featuring two films Fractured Land (75 minutes) at 11:30, and Free Solo (100 minutes) at 1:30 PM

Fractured Land Playing at 11:30 a.m.

Stick around after the film for a discussion with Dr. Manny Pino, an Environmental Activist, Professor of Sociology and Director of American Indian Studies at Scottsdale Community College

Free Solo Playing at 1:30 p.m.

About the films

Fractured Land

“Deep down we’re all fractured,” an oil and gas representative tells young Aboriginal leader and lawyer Caleb Behn. Behn knows that feeling all too well, as he struggles with the role he’ll play in protecting his traditional territory under Treaty 8 in northern British Columbia, an area that is currently under siege from some of the world’s largest natural gas operations. The troubling reality is that the same industry threatening traditional practices and livelihoods is also responsible for giving his parents jobs that provided him with his lifestyle and education.

Whether hunting beaver, throwing hatchets or studying legal briefs, the burden of leadership is visible in Behn, as he knows others are looking to him for a better future. Following him from the pristine North to downtown Vancouver and a fracked territory in New Zealand, Fractured Land provides optimism and empowerment toward issues that can seem dire and insurmountable.

Free Solo

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock…the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park…without a rope.

Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of the human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.

 

 

 

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The Scene and Heard Film Series is generously funded by: