Arid Lands @ Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Fest August 19, 2007

An award-winning documentary feature about the land and people of the Columbia Basin in southeastern Washington state. Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. Arid Lands takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, ecologists, and radiation scientists living and working in the area. It tells the story of how people changed the landscape over time, and how the landscape affected their lives.

Screening twice on August 19 at the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour, a benefit for the Lands Council. Co-director Josh Wallaert will be present for Q&A at both screening. Tickets $13 advance / $15 door (includes a block of seven films).



Read more about this film at www.sidelongfilms.com

Official Website: http://www.landscouncil.org/events/wild_and_scenic_environmental_film_festival.asp