A Talk with Filmmaker Paul Allen Hunton, Stone Visiting Artist

302 West Georgia Drive,Carrollton GA 30117

16 February, 2022

Description

Director and PBS host Hunton will be interviewed about his film Between Earth and Sky and his other projects. Hunton will be interviewed about his film, Between Earth and Sky: Climate Change on the Last Frontier (2016) and his other projects in Campus Center Ballroom 108.3/4. Host: School of the Arts with generous funding from Michael and Andrea Stone Free and open to the public Paul Hunton is the CEO of Texas Tech Public Media a PBS and NPR member station that broadcasts throughout west Texas. He is a four-time Emmy winning documentary filmmaker as a director for Put Me To Suffering and There Will be No Bad Talk or Loud Talk in This Place. Hunton sits on the board of directors for PBS and is also a member of the board of directors for Vision Maker Media, an organization dedicated to funding and distributing content made by and for Native Americans. He teaches documentary filmmaking in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University and is an alumni of Eastern New Mexico University and Texas Tech University. Prior to this event, Between Earth and Sky will be screened on February 14, 6-8 pm, in TLC 1305. About the film: Alaska has been the source of myth and legend in the imagination of Americans for centuries, and what was once the last frontier of American expansion, has become the first frontier in climate change. Between Earth and Sky examines climate change through the lens of impacts to native Alaskans, receding glaciers, and arctic soil. The island of Shishmaref has been home to the Inupiaq people for thousands of years. As sea ice retreats and coastal storms increase the people of Shishmaref are faced with a disappearing island and a 200 million dollar price tag to move their people with an untold cost on their culture and history. Permafrost (permanently frozen ground) in the Arctic and Subarctic sequesters 40% of the Earth’s soil carbon. Alaska has experienced the largest regional warming of any state in the U.S. increasing 3.4 degrees F since 1949. This warming has created a feedback loop of carbon to the atmosphere and the thawing of permafrost. Mixing interviews with some of the world’s leading scientists in climate change and arctic soils, with the day to day struggle of native Alaskans living on the front lines of global warming, Between Earth and Sky shows the calamity of climate change that has started in Alaska but will soon engulf the globe. --https://betweenearthandskymovie.com/ Where Campus Meets Community: The School of the Arts is committed to building and maintaining a unified arts culture both on campus and in the surrounding communities.SOTA harnesses the power of creativity in all its forms and shares it with the public. We work to enhance resources for the arts through meaningful partnerships with patrons and programs in the area, since we believe that a thriving arts culture not only makes for more vibrant and tolerant campuses but also creates more desirable places in which to work and live. SOTA hosts experts in their fields and brings in nationally recognized artists. We invite you to attend our regularly scheduled programs and special events.