Environmental Films as Educational Tools Session 1: ECO SHORTS

Green Screen (Films on the Environment and Transformation)

Dr. Laffey will share eco shorts and music videos she uses in her Green Screen course at Santa Monica City College. She will offer a showing and discussion of fun films including Nature Rx, Meatrix, Store Wars, The Compost Story, The Story of Stuff, as well as music videos by Nahko and others.

Presenter: Sheila Laffey, Ph.D. – Professor of Film Studies at Santa Monica City College

Sunday, November 10, 2019
1 – 2 pm
OAC- Gallery

Sheila Laffey
Producer, Director, Educator

Sheila Laffey, Ph.D. is an award-winning producer and/or director of documentaries and short dramatic films, mostly on the environment. These include The Last Stand on the Ballona Wetlands hosted by Ed Asner and South Central Farm: Oasis in a Concrete Desert, both of which aired on the Emmy Award-winning Public Television series Natural Heroes.

These films as well as Walden, Hawaii Eco Stories, Who Bombed Judi Bari? and Show Me the Way (co-directed with Oscar nominated William Gazecki) are distributed by Green Planet Films. She was the Associate Producer of Love Thy Nature, narrated by Liam Neeson which has won nearly 30 awards.

She has taught Film Studies at Santa Monica College for twenty years where one of her courses is Green Screen: Films on the Environment and Transformation. She has a PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU and was Program Coordinator for the National Audubon Society in Hawaii. A chapter about her work appears in Search for Reality: The Art of Documentary Filmmaking.