Film Screening “DAMNATION”
A Fundraiser for the OVLC
Saturday, August 16
Doors open at 7:30 PM – Film Starts at Dusk
@ the Mob Shop
Beer & Munchies provided by the OBC
The Mob Shop
110 W. Ojai Avenue
Ojai California 93023
www.themobshop.com
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come dow, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.