FERNGULLY LAST RAINFOREST + WHEN IT COMES FROM THE EARTH +MOTHER OF THE SEA

2403 Flora Street,Dallas TX 75201

14 May, 2022

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Saturday May 14, 10:00am - FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST Strauss Square Short Films: WHEN IT COMES FROM THE EARTH + MOTHER OF THE SEA Feature Film: FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST Saturday, May 14: STRAUSS SQUARE 10:00AM Short Films: WHEN IT COMES FROM THE EARTH + MOTHER OF THE SEA Doors at 9:30am | Films at 10:00am Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the environmental classic, FernGully: The Last Rainforest is set in a magical land inhabited by fairies including Crysta, who accidentally shrinks a young human logger named Zak to the size of a fairy. Together, the duo rally the fairies and the animals of the rainforest to protect their home from the loggers and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus. Thirty years later, the film remains relevant and reminds us of the power of imagination in the face of the current climate crisis. Runtime: 76min Year: 1992 Screening Times: Sat, May 14 - 10:00am - Strauss Square Meet the Director: Bill Kroyer is an American Filmmaker who specializes in Digital Animation. His iconic work appears in Hollywood classics such as Ferngully, Tron, Scooby Doo, Garfield, and The Fox and the Hound. Kroyer is a Governor of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Short Film: WHEN IT COMES FROM THE EARTH (dir. Katalin Egely) Runtime: 4min Year: 2021 When It Comes from the Earth is an animated musical short that sings the idea of a sustainable, healthy world into being. Bring your kids, brush up on your spanish and get ready to dance! Screening Times: Sat, May 14: 10:00am - Strauss Square Meet the Director: Katalin Egely graduated in Animation in 2013 from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. Besides short films and animated scenes for movies, Egely’s focus is primarily on making music videos. Short Film: MOTHER OF THE SEA (dir. Nicolas Brown) Runtime: 8min Year: 2021 The Mother of the Sea tells a tale that virtually every Inuit, from Greenland to the Canadian Arctic, knows in some form or another. This is a "living story," of plastic trash and climate change, that does more than scare children away from the dangerous ice — it warns us all about the perils of disrespecting Mother Nature. Screening Times: Sat, May 14: 10:00am - Strauss Square Meet the Director: Nicolas Brown has won three Emmys, two BAFTA awards and more than 35 major festival awards in the U.S., China, India and Europe. For the past five years Brown has worked as Passion Pictures’ Creative Director of the Blue Media Lab — a think-tank dedicated to environmental filmmaking. https://www.earthxfilmfestival.org