Free Film Screening: The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, October 16, 2023

We are excited to announce the next film in The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series!  We'll be showing The Seeds of Vandana Shiva on Monday, October 16, 2023. As always, the film is open to the public and free of charge. The screening will be at 7 pm at the Goldsmith Family Cinema, Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies, Wesleyan University, 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT.  Directions and parking information can be found here.

As described on the film's website, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva is a classic David versus Goliath tale that shows how Dr. Vandana Shiva, a brilliant scientist, became Monsanto’s worst nightmare and a rock star of the international organic food movement.  The film tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the food justice movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.  Vandana Shiva is described as a modern-day revolutionary, who for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations invested in continuing their degenerative but lucrative agricultural practices. By profiling one of the greatest activists of modern times, the film looks at the epic struggle over who controls the world’s food systems, and asks the question, who will prevail? 

A facilitated discussion will follow the film.

Please preregister using this form.  Face masks are optional, unless there are changes in Wesleyan University’s Covid policy. 

We hope you can join us!  Please phone the Conservation District office for more information at 860-346-3282.

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The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series was begun in 2015. The 2023-2024 series is co-sponsored by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, Middletown Garden Club, Russell Library, The Rockfall Foundation, and Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image.