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ACT Now 2013-2014 Films Book Club Watch a film. Get inspired. Make a difference. Read a Book ACT Now is one of our principal programs. ACT stands for “Action and Change Together”. ACT Now is the call to action portion of the festival that inspires film-goers to become educated and respond immediately to certain films and social issues in a positive and proactive way, inviting social and personal change. This is typically done after viewing a film and Q&A session, and includes direct and hands-on opportunities to become more educated and be a vehicle of change. Sign petitions, volunteer, make a donation, and find out ways you can make a difference. Feature Films Uranium Drive In If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans, Peter Eichstaedt Uranium, Tom Zoellner Nuclear Waste Stalemate, Rob Vandenbosche A Place at The Table World Hunger: 12 Myths, Frances Moore Lappe Blood Brother AIDs and Accusation, Paul Farmer Elemental The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Keane Short Films Highway Wilding Duk County A History of Modern Sudan, Robert O. Collins

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ACT Now 2013-2014 Films Book ClubWatch a film. Get inspired. Make a difference. Read a Book

ACT Now is one of our principal programs. ACT stands for “Action and Change Together”. ACT Now is the call to action portion of the festival that inspires film-goers to become educated and respond immediately to certain films and social issues in a positive and proactive way, inviting social and personal change. This is typically done after viewing a film and Q&A session, and

includes direct and hands-on opportunities to become more educated and be a vehicle of change. Sign petitions, volunteer, make a donation, and find out ways

you can make a difference.

Feature FilmsUranium Drive In• If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans, Peter Eichstaedt• Uranium, Tom Zoellner • Nuclear Waste Stalemate, Rob Vandenbosche

A Place at The Table• World Hunger: 12 Myths, Frances Moore Lappe

Blood Brother• AIDs and Accusation, Paul Farmer

Elemental• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History

of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Keane

Short FilmsHighway Wilding

Duk County• A History of Modern Sudan, Robert O. Collins