Synopsis and History

Synopsis

From the Oscar nominated director Robert Stone comes a documentary about the history of our first earth day. This eye opening film follows nine environment supporters and their past and present attempts to help the earth recover from the damages of human kind and their creation of one of the most important calendar days, Earth Day.

Some of the interviewees included Stewart Brand (editor of Whole Earth Catalog), Paul Ehrlich (wrote the best selling and controversial book The Population Bomb), Denis Hayes (chief organizer of the original Earth Day in 1970), L. Hunter Lovins (part of the California Conservation Project and the Rocky Mountain Institute), Paul McCloskey (Republican congressman from California and served as co-organizer of the original Earth Day with Denis Hayes), Denis Meadows (co-author of the book Limits to Growth), Stephanie Mills (editor-in-chief of Earth Times), Russell Schweickart (lunar module pilot for Apollo 9 and Commissioner of Energy in 1979), and Stewart Udall (Secretary of the Interior under President Kennedy and Johnson).

Biography

Filmmaker: Robert Stone
Robert Stone is an award winning documentary filmmaker. His first film Radio Bikini in 1988 was nominated for an Oscar. Stone also made featured documentaries such as Oswald’s Ghost and Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst. His newest film, which is Earth Days was an official selection and premiered at Sundance in January 2009.

This film is an American Experience Film and it is believed that this film already had distribution from them. Even in the films press release that was sent to us it says,
“EARTH DAYS has been selected to be the Closing Night Film at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released theatrically in 2009, followed by a national broadcast on PBS/American Experience in April 2010 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day.”
Therefore, this film probably already received distribution from American Experience prior to its Florida Film Festival debut.