BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.10//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1202@meaningfulmovies.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210202T203000 DTSTAMP:20210201T002239Z URL:https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/thewild/ SUMMARY:The Wild - Screening & Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Supporters of Bristol Bay\, Alaska\, and defenders of the world ’s largest and last fully intact wild salmon run will join Backbone Mean ingful Movies for a livestream of “The Wild\,” an award-winning docume ntary that deals directly with the controversial Pebble Mine and how this last-of-its-kind wild salmon ecosystem hangs in the balance.\n\nThe lives tream event will take place Tuesday\, February 2nd and kicks off at 6:30 p .m. Pacific. At-home viewers will watch a live stream of the hour-long fi lm\, and an expert panel will follow with a live virtual Q&\;A. Panelis ts include Carl Wassilie\, Sam Mace\, Mark Titus\, Eric Frith.\n\nTickets are available by donation here: BackboneCampaign.org/thewild\n\n"The Wild" is a real-life David and Goliath story focused on the perseverance of nat ure versus the ecological impact of open-pit mining. The documentary featu res interviews with the Pebble Mine CEO and board chairman Tom Collier\, P atagonia founder Yvon Chouinard\, actor Mark Harmon\, celebrity chef Tom C olicchio\, actor/activist Adrian Grenier\, various tribal civic leaders an d congressional gold medal recipient Steve Gleason\, among other luminarie s.\n\n"The Wild" is a timely project for this precarious moment in America n history. The latest passion project by acclaimed director\, Mark Titus\, the film connects the dangers of the Pebble Mine to Titus’s own story a s a recovering alcoholic.\n\n“Every alcoholic knows the folly of these s ix words: This time it will be different\,” Titus said. “The same is true of the last of our wild places. Time and again we have watched these “projects” erase what’s left of them. If we lose Bristol Bay\, it’ s the end of the line. If we can’t treat our disease that is fueled by t he unrelenting quest for more\, we will lose our last\, greatest source o f regenerative wild food and an economy that could go on forever if we lea ve it be. We don’t get a next time if Bristol Bay falls now.”\n\nMore than just a documentary about saving the last pristine habitat for wild sa lmon in the world\, "The Wild" explores the impact Pebble Mine could have on America’s food security. Bristol Bay’s sustainable salmon fishery i s an inexhaustible\, regenerative supply of wild caught food\, and the fil m addresses the indigenous rights of the Yupik\, Dena’ina and Alutiiq pe ople\, who stand to lose a millennia-old culture and organic food supply t hat could last forever if undisturbed. And\, the film also details the thr eat to the $1.5+ billion-dollar annual fishing industry that provides 14\, 000 American jobs and half the world’s supply of sockeye salmon. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://meaningfulmovies.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/01/The-Wild-Poster-2020-LARGE-scaled-e1611699682170.jpg CATEGORIES:Vashon LOCATION:Online Event - Pacific Standard Time\, Online\, Event\, see event description for link\, United States GEO:47.21403;-120.169573 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Online\, Event\, see event description for link\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Online Ev ent - Pacific Standard Time:geo:47.21403,-120.169573 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR