REVOLUTION GENERATION FILM SCREENING

The Revolution Generation paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today’s youth can solve global political and environmental crises.Register here: https://www.burlingtongreen.org/events/revolution-generation-film-screening/

Join the BG Youth Network, Burlington Community Climate Action Hub and BG on May 25th at 7:00 pm for a post screening discussion including tips for local opportunities to share your valued voice.

A link to view the film in the comfort of your own home will be provided to registrants to watch it up to May 25th

ABOUT THE FILM

The number of Millennials in the United States — those born between approximately 1978 and 2000 — is near 80 million people. They’re the most diverse generation in America, with 56 percent of them registered as politically Independent … and every single one of them will be needed if the planet is to avoid climate catastrophe.

In THE REVOLUTION GENERATION, filmmakers Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell (whose previous films Fuel, Pump, and Kiss the Ground have examined oil, capitalism, and a regenerative way forward for the earth) spotlight a generation that has been mischaracterized, mislabeled, and mistakenly mocked. Through interviews and highlighting a theory by authors/generational demographists Neil Howe and William Strauss that history can be viewed as a series of 80-year cycles — and within that, into four “seasons” that bring with them profound societal changes — the film shows the impact of the WWII Generation, Baby Boomers, and Gen X. But Millennials occupy a special spot: They’re creators of social tech and native digital users, are anti-corporate crusaders, are more empathetic that any previous group … and they now have to secure voting rights, equality, and the safety of the planet itself. Can they do it?

A kinetic, perceptive documentary of a generation and why they are who they are, THE REVOLUTION GENERATION is also, as Josh Tickell says, “A how-to manual for saving the earth.”

~ The Revolution Generation