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Thursday, September 7, 2023
7 - 8:30 p.m.
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FLY ME TO THE MOON
Winner of 2019 Awareness Festival Merit Award
Produced and Directed by Esther Figueroa, 2019, 115 mins.
Film and zoom discussion with director and producer Esther Figueroa
Thursday, September 21
7 p.m.
Argue Auditorium,
610 N. College Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
FLY ME TO THE MOON is a feature documentary by Jamaican independent filmmaker Esther Figueroa that takes us on a journey into the unexpected ways we are all connected on Planet Earth, by following aluminum - the metal of modernity - around the world and into space. We travel for over one hundred years, visiting places as far flung as the Moon, Jamaica, India, Suriname, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Hungary, Iceland, Australia, Vietnam, the United States of America, encountering along the way human "triumphs", technological innovations, multiple wars, societal upheavals, environmental devastation. And in the urgent here and now of the climate crisis, the film challenges us to to think about the consequences of our consumption, to reimagine the ways in which we live, and to change our material culture and political economy that is destroying the planet we all depend on.
Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent film maker, writer, educator and linguist with over thirty five years of media productions including television programming, documentaries, educational videos, multimedia and feature film. Her activist film making gives voice to those outside of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of local and indigenous knowledge and cultures, the environment, social injustice, and community empowerment. Figueroa’s films are screened and televised all over the world and taught at numerous universities. They include Jamaica for Sale (2009), the award-winning feature documentary about tourism and unsustainable development. Her latest feature documentary Fly Me To The Moon (2019) is about modernity and the global aluminum industry. In 2020 she created and co-hosted Global Extraction Film Festival, the first online film festival focused on the impacts of extractive industries and extractivism. In 2013, Figueroa was Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawai’i English Department.Her environmental novel Limbo (2014), was a finalist in the 2015 National Indie Excellence Awards for Multi-cultural Fiction.