Meet for a screening Q&A with Tim and Holly Erskine, the multi-talented Ellison Bay couple that created the first sci-fi epic adventure film shot entirely in Door County, featuring a talented cast of local actors at the next Greens N Grains Dinner and a movie Night, March 8. When a lone space traveler named Koyper (Peter Ciesla) lands his rocket …
Category: Film Screening
In Defense of Food | Dinner & a Movie, Feb 15
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants,” says author and journalist Michael Pollan. With that seven-word maxim, he distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. You can see and discuss the film at …
“Escarpment” Documentary by Roger Kuhns, GNG Dinner and a Movie, January 25
Escarpment envisions the natural history of Eastern Wisconsin as a documentary film, one that explains the geological mysteries of the Niagara Escarpment traversing the Great Lakes. Local, or once-upon-a-time Door County local, Roger Kuhns is a geographical expert and world traveler who presents entertaining monologues that couple adventure with his geographical knowledge. His latest award-winning work is screening on Thursday, …
Slingshot Documentary Attempts to Solve World’s Water Problems, GNG Dinner and a Movie, March 17
Slingshot is about Segway inventor Dean Kamen, an indomitable man who just might be creating a solution for a crisis affecting billions. A quirky genius, Dean Kamen lives in a house with secret passages, a closet full of denim and a helicopter garage. His latest passion is the SlingShot water purification system, actually a 15-year quest to obliterate half of human …
Plastic Planet Featured at Dinner and a Movie, March 3
We live in the Age of Plastic. It’s cheap. It’s practical, and it’s everywhere – even in your blood. But is it dangerous? Plastic Planet is a feisty, informative documentary that takes us on a journey around the globe – from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks …
Learn How to Change the World, February 18 at Dinner & a Movie
The critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary “How To Change The World” by director Jerry Rothwell chronicles the untold story of the birth of the modern environmental movement. Using never-before-seen footage, it tells the gripping story of a courageous group of men and women, led by Robert Hunter, who set out to change the world and in the process sparked a revolution. …
Documentary on Brazilian Photographer Sebastião Salgado Screening February 4 at GNG’s Dinner & a Movie
In “The Salt of the Earth,” film Director Wim Wender calls on us to contemplate the ways that a photographer who captures atrocities can both awaken and dull our conscience by creating a sense of intense immediacy while making us acutely aware of the distance between us and the sufferer. New York Times film critic A. O. Scott says, “The Salt …
Ex Machina Explores the Line Between Man and Machine, January 21 Dinner & a Movie
In this, the era of artificial intelligence (AI), we face the same dilemma described by Mary Shelly almost two hundred years ago in the tragic tale of Frankenstein. The Turing Test is “…a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to …
