Film Fundraising Gala for
Nancy Forrester's Secret Garden
sponsored by Mana Project
Wednesday March 28
Tropic Cinema, Key West
Screening of “MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES"
6:30 pm Reception with hors d’oeuvres;
7:30 Screening; 9:00 Champagne and Desserts
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES will have its one night only Pre-Release Screening at the Tropic Cinema in
Key West on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28. The film comes directly to Key West after its premiere showing at the
National Gallery of Art as a part of the prestigious Nation's Capital Environmental Film Festival. Not available
in theaters until this summer, the one night showing is being held by Mana Project, Inc. to benefit Nancy
Forrester's Secret Garden, the last undeveloped wooded acre in Historic Old Town Key West. The Garden is
in danger of being sold to developers. Tickets are $50, and are tax deductible as provided by law.
Winner of "Best Canadian Feature Film" at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, the film is a striking new view of the
world and work of Edward Burtynsky, whose large-scale photographs create stunningly beautiful art from the
civilization's materials and debris.
"In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hits as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and RIVERS AND
TIDES, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we
live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions." Zeitgeist Films.
SYNOPSIS: A feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned Canadian artist Edward
Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling
yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe
as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to
easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that
country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50 percent
than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometer long, and
the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they
tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to
reach simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the
world and the way we live in it.
MANA PROJECT, INC. was formed in 2000 as a 501(c)(3) to promote educational, environmental and arts
programs in Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden. For more information please call the Garden at 305.294-0015
Or Mana Project’s Executive Director, Katrina Arnhold directly 415.305.5813
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For complete press kit see:
www.zeitgeistfilms.com/films/manufacturedlandscapes.presskit.pdf .