The annual film festival starts Thursday.
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Wednesday, January 30
The Westwood Library will screen six documentaries as part of its annual "Green Screen" fim festival starting Thursday night. Tickets to the festival are still available on the library's website. A full festival ticket costs $35, tickets for single movies at Westwood Cinemas are $10. Movies screened at the library are free. Have a question or news tip? Contact editor Jim Leggate at Jim.Leggate@patch.com, or find us on Facebook and Twitter. For news straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.
The annual film festival features movies about the environment and sustainability.
The Westwood Library's "Green Screen" film festival will show six movies, including Sundance winner Chasing Ice, starting later this month. The annual festival features films with themes of sustainability and other environmental issues. One movie will be screened each day, starting January 31 with a pre-party event at Bibi'z and a showing of Chasing Ice at Westwood Cinemas. Chasing Ice follows National Geographic photographer James Balog as he documents melting polar glaciers. Other movies scheduled to be shown include Bag It, about pollution from plastic bags, Fresh, about food and small farms, Idle Threat, about cars idling in New York City, Planeat, about healthy eating and Dear Governor Cuomo, about activists' efforts to ban "fracking…
