{"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 The University of Chicago\u2019s Program on the Global Environment<\/a> and Doc Films<\/a>, the university\u2019s student film society, will host the screening<\/a>, which is free and open to the public. After the screening, Dr. Alison Anastasio, the executive director of the university\u2019s Medical Scientist Training Program<\/a>\u00a0and lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program, will lead a discussion with members of the production team. To learn more about The Program on the Global Environment, visit www.pge.uchicago.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About <\/b><\/strong>\u201cShifting Sands: On the Path to Sustainability\u201d <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cShifting Sands: On the Path to Sustainability\u201d explores how the Indiana Dunes region, through its influential environmental battles, offers a blueprint towards a more sustainable future. The film\u2019s 2016 release marks 100 years since the creation of the National Park Service<\/a> and 50 years after the congressional authorization of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore<\/a>. Presented by Lakeshore Public Television<\/a> (WYIN) and distributed by American Public Television<\/a> (APT), \u201cShifting Sands: On the Path to Sustainability\u201d has aired across 240 public television stations since August 2016. Proceeds from the film benefit WYIN and the Dunes Learning Center<\/a>. For more information about the film, visit shiftingsandsmovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHICAGO, IL \u2013 Locally produced documentary, \u201cShifting\u00a0Sands: On the Path to Sustainability,\u201d will be screened at the University of Chicago on Tuesday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m.\u00a0at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th\u00a0Street. The documentary examines the relationship between environmental and industrial forces on the South Shore of Lake Michigan. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[42,41,51,50,49,52,15,19,16,20,35,17,36,48],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8cgdd-gU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shiftingsandsmovie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n