Go Ganges! Film Screening

Posted by on March 05, 2012

Go Ganges! Film Screening
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)
Philadelphia, PA

Go Ganges!

This will be the Philadelphia premiere for this amazing 80-min film, followed by Q&A with J.J. Kelley!

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYH-E71pB64

****A $3 ticket fee will be collected at the door.****

A FASCINATING JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN

The River Ganges, which snakes across the Indian subcontinent is the most paradoxical river on the planet.  Running a clean lifeline from the Himalayan glaciers, its 1,500-mile journey begets the most polluted river in the world.  One third of the world’s population worships it as a god, but its devoted are killing their god.

How can a river that is considered a god to millions also be the dirtiest river in the world?  This is one of the many questions Alaska wilderness adventurers Josh and JJ ask themselves and a culture as they travel its entire length, 1500 miles from its pristine glacial headwaters all the way to the Bay of Bengal.

Most people who visit India snap a few pictures of themselves in front of the TajMahal, do some yoga, and call it a good trip.  Josh Thomas and J.J. Kelley, the comic pair of Dudes on Media and the makers of the Emmy Nominated documentary Paddle to Seattle tour the subcontinent a little differently, though. The duo team up once again to follow the length of the Ganges River from its source high in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal where it empties into the Indian Ocean.  A cultural expedition: two seasoned adventurers take the cumulative skills learned over years of Alaska wilderness travel and apply it to a dramatically different natural wonder: the River Ganges, population 400 million.  Living and traveling like the locals, they experience this river like it’s never been done before.

In one of the most unusual expeditions of its kind, GO GANGES! is perhaps the funniest documentary on The River Ganges ever.  At its base it’s an environmental story, but not one of doom and gloom.  The adventurers provide a colorful testimony to the distress the river endures, and why it merits reprieve as an irreplaceable emblem. Journey to India on the heels of the expedition, there you’ll encounter the unspeakable and the divine.

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