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"Flow" Film Screening

Can anyone really own water?

The award-winning documentary FLOW: For the Love of Water explores the implications of making water into a  commodity. As part of its ongoing multidisciplinary project, Water, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts is offering a free screening of this provocative film on Thursday, October 21.

Access to water may be the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st century. Documentary filmmaker Irena Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply through interviews with scientists and activists, and unflinchingly introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the global water grab.

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions developing new technologies and providing practical solutions to the water crisis.

The New York Times called FLOW “astonishingly wide-ranging…less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.”

An official selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, FLOW won Best Documentary at the Vail International Film Festival in 2008 and the International Jury Prize at the Mumbai International Film Festival that same year. It was also named Best Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival.

The film will be shown at the Community School Theater in Sun Valley at 6 pm Thursday, October 21. Admission is free.

For details about other events that are part of Water, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 726.9491 ex. 10.

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