Waking The Green Tiger Screening


When:	Back to Calendar June 29, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where:	Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall 7700 Minoru Gate Richmond,BC V6Y 1R9 Canada	Click to view map View Full-Size Map ✔ Add to Calendar Add to Google Calendar
Cost:	Admission By Donation
Categories:	Event

The rise of a Green Movement in China

Waking the Green Tiger is a feature documentary from Face to Face Media, the award winning team that created Nuclear Dynamite, the story of the environmental movement in America.

Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary and unprecedented campaign to stop a huge dam project on the Upper Yangtze river in the high mountains of southwestern China.

Ending Mao’s War Against Nature

Featuring astonishing archival footage never seen outside China, and interviews with a government insider and witnesses, the documentary also tells the story of Chairman Mao’s determination to conquer nature in the name of progress. Millions of people were mobilized in campaigns that reshaped China’s landscape, destroyed lakes, marshes, forests and grasslands, unleashed dust storms, and stifled science. For fifty years the idea was instilled in succeeding generations that nature must serve the people. Critics of this approach were silenced for years.