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Returning for its seventh year with a slight name change and more venues, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is a showcase of films and performances with a message.

More than 30 films, ranging from documentaries and narratives to animation and comedic shorts, will screen at Cornell University as well as five other campuses and two other venues from Friday, Oct. 3, through Thursday, Oct. 9. Most of the screenings feature an introduction and discussion with an expert on the film's topic, and four films will be presented by their makers or special guests.

Established in 1997, the series was previously known as the Cornell Environmental Film Festival. All screenings and discussions are open to the public, and most are free of charge. The film festival is presented by the Cornell Center for the Environment, the Einaudi Center for International Studies, Ithaca College and Cornell Cinema, with support of other units at Cornell and other participating colleges.

The festival kicks off Oct. 3 at Cornell with the premiere of the documentary "My Architect: A Son's Journey," the story of architect Louis Kahn's illegitimate son as he searches to understand his father through his architecture. Oct. 4 features a festival first, a live multimedia performance by Yes Men, who are global trade activists.

The festival also breaks ground by including new collaborators at Ithaca EcoVillage, the Ithaca Sciencenter and SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "The goal of this festival has always been to screen the best works to the widest audience possible," says Festival Director Christopher Riley. "Through the expansion of venues, we are achieving that goal."

More detailed descriptions of the films and a full list of sponsors are available on the Web at http://cinema.cornell.edu/fleff/index.html . Included film festival are the following: o "My Architect: A Son's Journey," Friday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell University. Screening with the short film "The Snell Show." Tickets are $6 ($5 for students and seniors, and $4 for Cornell graduate students, and children 12 and under).

• "Shorts and Stories," Saturday, Oct. 4, 2 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre, with storyteller Kelly Riley. A collection of environmentally themed animated short films for children.
• "The Bilby Brothers: The Men Who Killed the Easter Bunny," Saturday, Oct 4, 4 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre. Screening with the short film "AquaBillyJoelLand," with the maker Aaron McGuire.
• "The Yes Men, a live multimedia performance," Saturday, Oct 4, 7 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre. Tickets are $6 ($5 for students and seniors and $4 for Cornell graduate students, and children 12 and under).
• "Fish out of Water," Sunday, Oct. 5, 2 p.m., Ithaca Sciencenter, with Steven Kress, director of Project Puffin.
• "Banana Split," Sunday, Oct. 5, 4 p.m., Ithaca Ecovillage, with Erin Riddle, Ithaca Fair Trade Coalition.
• "The Shaman's Apprentice," Sunday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., Uris Auditorium, Cornell University, with producer Abigail Wright; also screening on Tuesday, Oct 7, 4 p.m., Park 285, Ithaca College. Screening with the short film "Crowfilm".
• "E Vo," Monday, Oct. 6, 4 p.m., Park Auditorium, Ithaca College, featuring Patty Zimmermann.
• "The Friendship Village," Monday, Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre; also screening Tuesday, Oct 7. 10:50 a.m. and 2:35 p.m., Park Auditorium, with John Hochheimer.
• "The Leech and the Earthworm," Monday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., Park Auditorium; also screening Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, Cornell University, both screenings with producer Debra Harry. Screening with the short film "Grandmother."
• "An Injury to one," Monday, Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, with Jefferson Cowie; also screening Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Cleveland Auditorium, Wells College, with panel discussion.
• "Drowned Out," Tuesday, Oct. 7, 4 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre, with Ron Herring; also screening Thursday, Oct. 9, 6 p.m., Hall of Languages, Room 207, Syracuse University.
• "The Doe Boy," Tuesday, Oct. 7, 5:30 p.m., Park Auditorium, with Anna Simiopoulos.
• "Butterfly," Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Marshall Auditorium, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, with Mark Meisner. A biopic about Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived for two years in a redwood tree to block logging of an old growth forest. o "Razing Appalachia," Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Geneva Room, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; also screening Thursday, Oct. 9, 9:30 a.m., Park 281, Ithaca College.

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• "See How the Land Lies," Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2:00 p.m., Park Auditorium, Ithaca College, with guest curator Jason Livingston and Professor Simon Tarr. A selection of experimental film and video investigating the complicated picture frame we call landscape.
• "Green," Wednesday, Oct. 8, 4:30 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre , with Sandra Steingraber.
•  "Coca Mama," Wednesday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m., Uris Auditorium, with Mary Roldan, director of Latina American Studies at Cornell, and author of "Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953."
• "One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps," Thursday, Oct. 9, 1:10 p.m., Park 281, Ithaca College.
• "Hidden Medicine," Thursday, Oct 9, 10:50 a.m. and 2:35 p.m., Park Auditorium, with John Hochheimer
• "Pratte's Reef" and "Quartzite's Fall," Thursday, Oct. 9, 4:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, with representatives from Cornell Outdoor Education.
• "The Return of Navajo Boy," Thursday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, featuring Elsie Cly, subject of the feature, and "Fake Clouds" filmmaker Andrea Campbell; also screening Tuesday, Oct. 7, 9:30 a.m., Park 285, Ithaca College.