Events

The Telluride Film Festival presents "For All Mankind" (1989, 80 minute), part of the ongoing educational/entertainment series, Sunday At The Palm. The dazzling Oscar-nominated National Geographic documentary tells the story of the 24 men who traveled to the moon, in their own words, using their own images of the experience.

The space race effectively ended in July 1969 when Apollo 11 met President Kennedy's challenge of landing a man on the moon and return him safely to earth, but there were flights before and after the big headline. "For All Mankind" features breathtaking, never-before-seen footage, a composite of nine lunar flights between December 1968 and November 1972. To make "For All Mankind," journalist-turned-director Al Reinert had to sift through six million feet of film footage and 80 hours of interviews. (Reinert subsequently co-scripted Ron Howard's acclaimed "Apollo 13.")

There is absolutely positively nothing fishy about the collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the award-winning Wilkinson Public Library – except the stench from the derring-do portrayed in director Hubert Sauper's "Darwin's Nightmare."

The gripping documentary exposing the booming multinational industry of fish and weapons is part of the "All About Food" series, which continues Monday, April 19, with a pre-SHOW reception starting at 5:30 p.m.

Back in the days of the flower children and the Cold War, the Soviets dumped a non-native fish into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The profoundly predatory Nile Perch went on a rampage, killing off most of the indigenous species. There was collateral damage too, on the human population, as farmers became fisherman to satisfy the Russian and European demand for fish. Filming undercover, gave Sauper access to a range of people affected, from businessmen and pilots to peasants, prostitutes, and EU politicos, his camera exploring the altogether devastating effects of globalization on one Tanzanian village.