Pioneer Valley Transition Towns will hold its annual film festival at Greenfield Community College on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m.
Informative and diverse locally made films will show how communities are working toward sustainable living.
The audience will have plenty of opportunity to chat with the filmmakers during a reception following the awards presentation.
Admission is free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.
Rawn Fulton, internationally acclaimed documentarian from Bernardston, will once again be the festival’s master of ceremonies and Annette Wadleigh, representing PVI, will present awards.
In 2010, the Film Festival was created to address Pioneer Valley towns’ needs to transition to a sustainable future as demonstrated by the Transition Towns movement.
Transition Towns’ principles are designed to help build communities in a positive way in the face of economic instability, diminishing natural resources, rising fossil fuel costs, global warming and other economic and environmental challenges. The subtitle for the festival became “Locally Made Films — How Communities are Working Toward Sustainable Living.”
This year’s films are from a broader geography and cover a wider range of topics than in the past.
They were created by folks from Dummerston, Vt., to Springfield, and offer insights into what people up and down the Greater Pioneer Valley are doing to make their communities more sustainable.
This year’s films will be broadcast on local television stations, so check individual listings to see when they will air.
Visit: www.transitionnorthfieldma.org