Movies on the Lawn: Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Pack a late night snack, bring your blanket or lawn chair, and join us for movies under the stars featuring these and other short films!

Bag It

Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, "everyman" Jeb Berrier embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our planet and lives. We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.

USA, 2010, 45 min; Film by Suzan Beraza.

Meet Your Farmer

Take a glimpse of four short profiles of farms in Maine that highlight the many different types of farms in the state. From the potato harvest in Aroostook County, to the innovations of a seventh-generation farmer Downeast, to the struggles of a dairy farmer in Western Maine, the short films remind viewers that farming is more than just a historical feature of Maine; farming in Maine is alive and well.

2009 - 2010, 28 min; Film by Jason Mann; Produced for Maine Farmland Trust, an organization that works to preserve farm land in Maine for farming use.

In addition to the films described above, the evening will also feature several short films featured at the 2011 Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival.

Parking is available in the stadium parking lot, adjacent to the field.