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Reel Power Screens at Power Shift

October 1, 2013 BY admin

Reel Power is excited to announce that our films will be part of the 2013 Power Shift conference.

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Power Shift is the world’s largest youth gathering and training for climate change solutions. This year more than ten thousand youth leaders from every walk of life — college students, young environmental justice leaders, DREAMers, young people of faith, young workers — will come together to learn from one another, to build and launch strategic campaigns in their own communities.

Reel Power films will be featured during Saturday and Sunday of the conference and the Reel Power filmmakers, featured subjects and key organizers will participate in post-screening Q&As. We will be screening Bidder 70, Gasland Part II, Come Hell or High Water, and Working Films’ Reel Economy film Citizen Koch. Together these films paint the bigger picture of climate change, highlight grassroots leadership and community power, as well as give audiences new avenues to explore the influence of money in politics. Here’s the program:

Saturday, October 19th, 11:30 AM
Bidder 70 (room 406)
Gasland Part II (room 407)

Sunday October 20th, 10:15 AM
Citizen Koch (sneak peek) (room 406)
Come Hell or High Water (sneak peek) (room 407)

Make sure you come out to Pittsburgh and join over 10,000 youth leaders from across the country as we take a stand for the planet – Register for Power Shift today!

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