AFF Teams with Patagonia for Living Wine Event
On October 6, The Alexandria Film Festival will screen feature documentary Living Wine in the Patagonia Old Town space followed by a film discussion and wine tasting. The event is open to adults 21 years of age and up. Special pricing is available for young professionals.
Living Wine follows the journeys of natural winemakers in Northern California during the largest wildfire season on record. Equal parts farmer, winemaker and artist, they stay true to their ideals of creating exceptional wines made through innovative sustainable and regenerative farming and without chemical additives. Eschewing the industrial agricultural practices of the corporate wine industry –the winemakers are healing the very environment they are surviving, i.e., a changing climate marked by rising temperatures, shorter growing seasons, and more frequent and virulent wildfires.
According to the film’s director Pete Seeger, “It was inspiring to film our subjects whose life’s work is to heal the soil and earth, and who find spiritual meaning through the simple acts of farming the land and raising their families. We did not expect to encounter the early and worst fire season on record, but these terrifying life and livelihood-threatening fires added an extra layer of suspense and irony to the story, driving home the need for climate stories to be told.”
Patagonia Old Town is the first Patagonia store to open in Virginia, taking over the historic Old Town theater back in 2014. Partnering with area nonprofits, it offers a steady stream of events, films and presentations.
