Melnitz Movies/Documentary Salon: "No Impact Man"

Times

Tue Nov 17 at 7:30 PM

Venue

The James Bridges Theater (Melnitz 1409)

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Melnitz Movies, the International Documentary Association and the UCLA Institute of the Environment present a Documentary Salon Screening: “No Impact Man”

Join Director Laura Gabbert for an exciting, environmentally conscious screening of “No Impact Man,” a co-presentation of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and the Documentary Salon. Author Colin Beavan and his family are pictures of liberal complacency — sophisticated, takeout-addicted New Yorkers who refuse to let moral qualms interfere with good old-fashioned American consumerism. Then Colin turns things upside down. For his next book, he announces he’s becoming No Impact Man, testing whether making zero environmental impact adversely affects happiness. The hitch is he needs his wife, Michelle — an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping Business Week writer — and their toddler to join the experiment.A year without electricity, cars, toilet paper, and nonlocal food isn't going to be a walk in the park. Or is it?

DIRECTORS: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
CAST: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin

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Keywords

"no impact man" "laura gabbert" 

Published

Fri Oct 23, 2009 in Screening

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