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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Oct20/Last Paradise Film Event/Fundraiser for SBCC Center for Sustainability/Santa Barbara
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:17:09 -0700

Co-sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network...

Extreme Sports Explores Mystical Lands
An Eco-Adventure Film, 45 Years in the Making

SBCC Center for Sustainability
Presents
LAST PARADISE Film
~
With New Zealand film-maker, surf pioneer & physicist Clive Neeson
(Q&A after the film)
October 20, 7pm, 2010
Arlington Theater
$10 general admission/$20 Supporters Special Seating

~A Fundraiser for the SBCC Center for Sustainability~

"Tomorrow's protectors of the wilderness,
are the kids who play in it today", Clive Neeson

I nternational Eco-adventure film Last Paradise, by New Zealand film maker Clive Neeson, captures 45 years of stunning original footage from places like Bali, Mexico, Portugal, New Zealand, Utah, and Australia with young maverick sports pioneers exploring a world that no longer exists.

Meeting along the way surf legends like Miki Dora, Gerry Lopez, George Greenough, Kevin Jarrett and others integral to extreme sports development, these young inquisitive surf kids later encounter and are influenced by renowned physicist Professor Bruce Liley, disciple of Ernest Rutherford, who proposed an alternative energy plan for New Zealand in the 1970's.

The son of wildlife photographers, Neesonís life was one big adventure. Starting with his parentsí footage of his and his brothers action-packed 1960s childhood in Africa and New Zealand, Last Paradise later graduates to vintage shots of young innovators as they discover and evolve the sports of surfing, wakeboarding, snowboarding, hang gliding, windsurfing, bungee jumping, and kite surfing while traveling to remote corners of the world. Over time, Neeson saw that his 45 years of records of good times, faraway places, and adrenaline-pumping feats could tell a larger story.

Living a double life between extreme sports madman and the conservative scientific community, Clive Neeson filmed the journey from experimental beginnings, while building his own filming accessories to get a closer perspective of action sports. Studying atomic physics and electronics, Neeson worked internationally in energy development and technology innovation including the first climate monitoring systems.

Last Paradise is an inspiring showcase of early pioneering adventures in extreme sports that doubles as a poignant look at how much our world has changed in 40 years---culturally, environmentally and technologically. By rekindling a love of the wild and tapping the powerful forces of nature Neeson suggests tomorrow's potential protectors of the planet are the kids that play in it today.

In 2007, Neeson had the unique opportunity to digitally master 45 years of film footage at Peter Jackson's Park Road Post, Wellington, allowing him to create and share Last Paradise with the world. The event will include a question and answer period with Clive Neeson following the film.

Co-sponsored by: Santa Barbara Surfrider Foundation, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, SB Independent, Harbor View Inn, El Capitan Canyon Resort, Sojourner Cafe, Loa Tree, Orella Ranch, Quail Springs, Surfers Without Borders, Backyard Bowls, Nutiva, Green2Gold, Teeccino, Wilson Environmental Landscape Design & Arbor Collective Skateboards.


Arlington Theater, 1317 State St, Santa Barbara, Wed, October 20, 7-9:30 pm, $10 general/$20 Center for Sustainability Supporter.
Tickets are available at door, Arlington Theater ticket office (805) 963-4408, or online at TicketMaster.com
For more information, please call (805) 965-0581, ext. 2177, or msbushman@sbcc.edu

X-Dance Awards "Last Paradise" was nominated for Best Documentary, Best Action Film and won the "Ambassador of Green" Award

Last Paradise Film: www.lastparadisefilm.com

Last Paradise Film/YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHo6TGcEZXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDY6pVYV9xU


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  • [permaculture] Oct20/Last Paradise Film Event/Fundraiser for SBCC Center for Sustainability/Santa Barbara, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 10/05/2010

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