{"id":1048,"date":"2016-09-16T18:49:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2016-10-19T03:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T03:11:26","slug":"university-of-chicago-hosts-environmental-documentary-with-hyde-park-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/2016\/09\/16\/university-of-chicago-hosts-environmental-documentary-with-hyde-park-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Chicago Hosts Environmental Documentary with Hyde Park Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO, IL \u2013 Locally produced documentary, \u201cShifting\u00a0Sands: On the Path to Sustainability<\/em>,\u201d will be screened at the University of Chicago on Tuesday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m.<\/a>\u00a0at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th\u00a0<\/span>Street. The documentary examines the relationship between environmental and industrial forces on the South Shore of Lake Michigan. The film also highlights the worldwide impact as a result of the fight to create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.<\/p>\n

The crew of the sixty-minute documentary includes current Hyde Park resident Tom Desch and native Rana Segal. Desch served as the documentary\u2019s producer, writer, and editor; Segal was a producer and the director of photography. Lee Botts, the executive producer, once called Hyde Park home and served as the editor of the Hyde Park Herald.\u00a0 Pat Wisniewski, producer and director, grew up in the South Chicago neighborhood of Hegewisch.<\/p>\n

But the crew\u2019s members are not the only ones with the Hyde Park ties, many of the characters at the center of the film\u2019s narrative have ties to the neighborhood:<\/p>\n