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"Green Screens: Environmental Ethics On and Off Screen" is a three-day media showcase from March 23-25, 2017 focusing on environmental crises facing communities worldwide.
On March 24th, Megan Epler Wood, founder of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), will screen excerpts from her landmark 1991 PBS documentary The Environmental Tourist, followed by a screening of The Venice Syndrome (52 min., 2012, Dir: Andreas Pichler). The Venice Syndrome explores the current state of tourism in Venice, host to 20 million foreigners a year in a city of 58,000 inhabitants. Discussion: Megan Epler Wood and Pegi Vail (NYU Center for Media, Culture and History). Moderator: Lynne Minnaert (NYU’s Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism).
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