The Projecting Change Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, May 9th, at the Ridge Theatre with the movie, Flow: For the Love of Water and with runner, Ray Zahab. Find out more about the event after the jump.

7:00PM
Flow: For Love of Water Watch the Trailer
U.S.A., 2007, 84 min
Director(s): Irena Salina
Speaker: Ray Zahab

Ticket: $40, Includes: Introductions, Film, Speaker & After Party with complimentary beverages & food

Flow: For Love of Water is Irena Salina’s cautionary documentary that is determined to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, sustains every creature on Earth. The time has come when we can no longer take this precious resource for granted. Unless we effect global change, impoverished nations could be wiped from the planet.

Flow: For Love of Water is an inspired, yet disturbingly provocative, wake-up call. The future of our planet is drying up rapidly. Focusing on pollution, human rights, politics, and corruption, filmmaker Salina constructs an exceptionally articulate profile of the precarious relationship uniting human beings and water. While each community’s challenges are unique, the message is universal—the time to turn the tide is now.

SPEAKER: Ray Zahab, a former pack a day smoker, is a Canadian ultra-marathon runner, motivational speaker, and a fresh water advocate. Ray recently joined forces with H2O Africa project and ran across the entire Sahara Desert (4500 miles, 111 days, 12-14 hours/day) to raise awareness for clean water initiatives in Africa. This feat was documented in a feature film directed by Academy Award Winner James Moll and narrated by Matt Damon (Running the Sahara will release later this year).

Ray recently founded an organization called Impossible 2 Possible (I2P) which conceives and executes seemingly impossible athletic adventures in order to inspire and educate the world’s youth regarding environmental issues and their social impact. Ray also spoke and trained with Al Gore at the April 5th 2008 “Inconvenient Truth Training Seminar” in Montreal, Canada.