Over Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, has been selected as a participant in this years 9th Annual Artivist Film Festival to be held November 1-4 in Hollywood California.
Over Troubled Waters be showing at the festival on Friday, November 2, 2012 at the Barsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles at 7:00 PM. A Question and Answer Panel following the film will feature Russ Fisher, Film Director, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, Conner Everts, Executive Director for the Southern California Watershed Alliance, and Adam Scow, California Campaign Director for Food and Water Watch.
In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley Jr. narrates the story of how the people of the Delta are fighting to protect the region they love and to encourage saner, sustainable water policies for all the people of California.
Over Troubled Waters will be showing with "Amazon Gold." Narrated by Academy Award winners, Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, "Amazon Gold" is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey bearing witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally mined gold.
Limited tickets to Friday's showing are available for $12.00 at: www.artivist.com.
“This is our chance to tell the real Delta story,” said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, which produced Over Troubled Waters. “This film reveals how powerful forces are using fear of flooding and earthquakes to make a case for transforming a unique, beautiful, productive region into a permanent way station for water going somewhere else. They are trying to force on the public a massive, multi-billion dollar water transfer project that Californians will be paying for decades and that will not restore the Delta. Over Troubled Waters is a good fit for the Festival as it is the centerpiece of a public education effort to stop the building of these peripheral tunnels.
“We are pleased and honored to be participating in the only Film Festival dedicated to ‘Raising Awareness for Human Rights, Children’s Advocacy, Environmental Preservation, and Animal Advocacy through International Films’, said Ms. Barrigan-Parrilla. "The increased exposure from the Artivist Festival will help in the fight for levee protections, common sense planning, and improved water quality and quantity for the Delta.”
“I grew up in and around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and have enjoyed all that is has to offer. From salmon fishing to wakeboarding, the Delta has given me much pleasure,” said Over Troubled Waters Director Russ Fisher. “I wanted to create this film in order to capture the true beauty of this estuary and to give something back to people of the Delta communities. One can only appreciate the vastness of the Delta from the air, which this documentary renders."
"This region has been of the best kept secrets in California, and the forces that are trying to destroy it would like it to remain that way. Hopefully, through this film the Delta is not a secret any longer, but recognized as the treasure that it is – the largest estuary on the Pacific Coast of the Americas," stated Fisher.
For more information about Restore the Delta, contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft or Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta
Restore the Delta is a 7000-member grassroots organization committed to making the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fishable, swimmable, drinkable, and farmable to benefit all of California. Restore the Delta works to improve water quality so that fisheries and farming can thrive together again in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. www.restorethedelta.org