Award-winning film to screen on campus sounds alarm on global water supply crisis

RELEASED: September 25, 2008

DANVILLE, KY—Director Irena Salina sounds the alarm in her award-winning film, FLOW: For the Love of Water, which will be shown at Centre College on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Newlin Hall of the College's Norton Center for the Arts. The 83-minute film examines water as a resource in peril across the planet. The screening is free and open to the public. [Click here to view the film's trailer.]

Co-producer Gill Holland will be on campus to introduce the film and answer questions afterwards. Holland, Spirit Award nominee for Producer of the Year, has produced more than 40 films, including Sundance favorites Spring Forward, Loggerheads, triple winner Hurricane Streets and the FOX sitcom Greg The Bunny. Holland also was executive producer for Spirit Award winner Sweetland, HBO's Emmy-nominated documentary Dear Jesse, and most recently The Adventures of Power. Holland and his wife Augusta, who live in Louisville, are currently renovating The Green Building, the first LEED-certified fully sustainable building in the city.

About the film
FLOW, which opened in New York and Los Angeles earlier this month and premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, investigates what experts identify as the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st century—the world water crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with a focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of what she calls a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human level, and the film asks the question, "Can anyone really own water?" [Click here to listen to Salina discuss these issues on NPR's Bob Edwards Weekend show; her interview begins at the 28:20 mark.]

Beyond identifying this urgent problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.

About the director
Born in France, Salina started her career at 15 as a radio journalist in Paris, then worked in production in various capacities on numerous U.S. films before writing and directing her first short, See You on Monday, sponsored by Lifetime Television for the Hamptons Film Festival. Her first film, Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim (2000), is an award-winning documentary that delves into the remarkable life of the St. Louis-born artist. The film was featured at many festivals, won Best Documentary at the 15th Fort Lauderdale Film Festival and the Presidents' Award at Mexico's prestigious Ajijic Film Festival, and is an evergreen audience favorite on the Sundance Channel.

For more information on Holland, Salina and FLOW, click here.

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