‘Green’ movies unreel at SM

In line with its ongoing environmental initiatives, the SM Supermalls will be screening a "Green Film Festival" showcasing selected award-winning documentaries that will help us known more about the world we live in and how we can do our share to help build a greener world.

A project of the Environment Committee of the SM Supermalls, these are schedules on three consecutive Wednesdays: September 23 at SM City North EDSA The Block Cinema 4, September 30 at SM Megamall Cinema 6, and October 7 at the Mall of Asia Cinema 3. All screenings are free of charge.

Scheduled for screening at the "Green Film Festival" are "The 11th Hour," "Home," "An Inconvenient Truth," "March of the Penguins," "Planet Earth," "Abong" and "Ligtas Likas."

The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film created, produced, and narrated by Leonardo di Caprio. Himself an environmental advocate, di Caprio shows in his film how we’ve arrived at the last moment when change is possible and what we can do to change our course.

"Home" is a travel notebook, showing landscapes captured from a bird’s eye view. The film calls for a new awareness, inviting viewers to stop for a moment to look at our planet and realize how we treat her treasures and her beauty.

"An Inconvenient Truth" is the ground breaking 2006 documentary film directed by David Guggenheim about former US Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to educate citizens about global warming and inspiring them to take action. The film chronicles Gore’s travels as his crisscrosses the globe presenting a comprehensive slide show on climate change, by his own estimate, he’s given more than a thousand times.

"March of the Penguins" or "La Marche de l’empereur" is a French nature documentary depicting the yearly journey of the emperor penguins on Antractica. Megastar Sharon Cuneta narrates the Tagalog version, "Penguin, Penguin, Paano Ka Ginawa?"

"Planet Earth" is an 11-part series that will amaze viewers with never before seen footages of animal behavior, starling views of locations captured by cameras for the first time, in unprecedented high definition techniques.

"Abong," which means small home in some mountain tribes, is an epitome of our world as it is besieged by natural and human influences, poverty and affluence, mercy and intolerance. While gently depicting the bonds of a Japanese-Filipino family – the plentiful life of their Igorot tradition contiguous with the nature and loneliness they face in the city – the movie splendidly constructs an allegorical world of satire.

"Ligtas Likas," an animated feature produced by Creative Media and the Film Society of the Philippines is a 25-minute feature film written by Imee Marcos, Peter Mayshle, and Ann Angala Shy. It is a collaboration of CreaM and Sen. Loren Legarda, author of the Ecological Waste Management Act. The film aims to motivate children to practice recycling and proper waste management through the story of a young girl Maya and her friends Bobot the compact-robot, and Tatang, the nature worshipper. Together they fight the enemies of the environment, and ultimately preserve the rainforest and protect the ocean against pollution.

The "Green Film Festival" is one of the initiatives of the Environment Committee of the SM Supermalls to promote environmental sustainability through mall, tenant, and community endeavors while simultaneously going green with good business practices.