This trailer is about a short film that will premier February 24, 2015 at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado on 26th Street, between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street.
Here is how the film is described:
“Celebrate the premiere of Unacceptable Risk: Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change – a short film, featuring local firefighters who have battled many of Colorado’s epic fires of the past decade.
Our wildland firefighters are witnessing climate change impacts in their daily lives. Unacceptable Risk examines how these climate changes are transforming Colorado’s fire environment, bringing higher temperatures, drier fuels, and diseases to forests, which combine to create volatile conditions for firefighters and communities.
Following the screening, firefighters, climate scientists, and the filmmakers will join the audience for a conversation about ways that Coloradans can work together to address climate change and the growing threat of wildfires.
A reception will follow in The Dairy’s McMahon Gallery. The gallery is currently featuring an exhibition inspired by climate-related issues, entitled “Fire and Rain,” by Colorado-based artist Mary-Ann Kokoska, who will speak about her work.
The film is produced by The Story Group, a Boulder-based company.”
Admission is free.
UPDATE: the entire 12-minute film can be seen here.
In addition, we received this information today from Ted Wood of The Story Group who produced the film:
“The Story Group is funded entirely through grants and donations, and we’re trying to recoup some of our distribution costs by pointing people to our pay-per-download Vimeo site, where people who want to use the film for fire presentations, workshops, etc can pay $9.95 and download it. We’ve had a real interest from Colorado fire managers to use the film in training, and we’d like to offer it to a larger national audience.”
You can sign up to host a screening or obtain a DVD at http://www.screeninghq.org/films/details/129/unacceptable-risk-firefighters-on-the-front-lines-of-climate-change
I’m a member of the Red Feather Lakes Volunteer Fire Department as well as the Red Feather Lakes Fire Protection District Board, and my wife is on the Red Feather Library Board. Both of us are interested in bringing this film to our area. Is this possible? If so, how we go about doing it? Thanks.
I was wondering if this video was going to be available for viewing somewhere on the web like Vimeo or the like? I’d love to see the full movie.