Archive for September, 2010

Bag It: Is your life too plastic?

kolson posted this Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Bag It Intro from Suzan Beraza on Vimeo.

BAG IT: Q&A with Director Suzan Beraza

In all the years we’ve been sponsoring Telluride’s MountainFilm Festival, no movie has had as profound an effect on us as Bag It, a little documentary that started with one plastic bag and became a global exposé on the damage single-use plastics and plastic byproducts are doing to the planet.

“You watch this film and you realize that you’re probably only doing 20% of what you could be,” says Gordon, our head Toad. “It’s inspiring, it promotes change, and it really demonstrates how easy it is to make a difference—versus getting depressed about how the world is coming to an end.”

We spoke to Telluride filmmaker Suzan Beraza about her film after the screening in Santa Barbara. (more…)