SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD - Activists Without Borders Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Global Peace Film Festival
Science • Civil Disobedience • Activism • Environment • Climate Change • Social Justice
Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 23 minutes | Language: English with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Holly Becker | Producers: Holly Becker & Carey McKenzie | Cinematographers: Thomas Bango, Dermott Downs, & Zachary Marlow | Editor: Kylie Van De Wyngaerde | Composer: Ross Koopmans | Title Song: Neil Young
Dr. Peter Kalmus, an impassioned NASA earth scientist, rebels against the system. As an expert on the escalating perils of climate change, he feels compelled to get out of the lab and do more to inform the public than write papers and share graphs. He commits his first act of civil disobedience with a select group of other experienced activists in downtown Los Angeles. The police respond to this protest en masse, and the world takes notice via social media. ARRESTING SCIENCE is a rare behind-the-scenes portrait of a daring climate protest that details the tactics and determination of those who are risking it all to save life on earth.
AWARDS
Social Impact Award | Activists Without Borders Film Festival
FILM FESTIVALS
Global Peace Film Festival
An earlier cut of ARRESTING SCIENCE screened at the IFC Center in New York as part of the People's Climate Week, 2023. This screening included a discourse on civil disobedience with protagonist Peter Kalmus and environmentalist Bill McKibben. The same cut was the inaugural screening at the new Community Environmental Council (CEC) in Santa Barbara, in 2023.