LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Soper Reese Theater, Sierra Club Lake Group and Middletown Art Center invite the public to a special screening and conversation with filmmaker Luke Grisworld-Tergis about his award winning documentary film, “Pleistocene Park.”
The screening will take place on Sunday, Jan 29, at 2:30 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre.
Get tickets in advance at
Soperreesetheatre.com, free/by donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Griswold-Tregis, an award-winning filmmaker and graduate from Lower Lake High School, studied cultural anthropology and ethnographic film at University of California, Santa Cruz.
“Pleistocene Park,” recently released, has already won prestigious awards at numerous film festivals.
“Pleistocene Park” tells the story of “a Russian Geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita, – part genius, part madman — a vanished ice age ecosystem, a climatic timebomb, and a crazy plan to save the world.”
In the movie the men call their project Pleistocene Park and its goal is to restore the Ice Age "mammoth steppe" ecosystem and avoid a catastrophic feedback loop leading to runaway global warming.
This daring and controversial experiment elicits many questions which Griswold will discuss with us Jan 29. He also presents the theory in his Tedx Talk, “Can Wooly Mammoths Save the World.”