From Sundance to Lake Powell

  • December 11, 2024
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RadioACTive's Sundance Team explores the feature films and episodic projects announced for 2025. Plus, Nick Burns talks about Lake Powell's last days with environmental writer Zak Podmore.

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RadioACTive's Val MC and Connor Estes launch our coverage of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival tonight. Guest:  Basil Tsiokos, Sundance Film Festival programmer.

  • Jan. 23-Feb. 2: Sundance Film Festival, Park City and SLC. "Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the 87 feature films and six episodic projects selected for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, revealing a lineup full of bold independent storytelling. All of the competition films and more will be available online from January 30–February 2, for audiences across the country. Single Film Tickets for in-person and online screenings go on sale January 16 at 10 a.m. MT. Members have access to a Single Film Ticket pre-sale, and limited quantities of passes and packages remain on sale. Visit the Sundance Film Festival site for more information: festival.sundance.org."
RadioACTive's Nick Burns speaks with environmental author Zak Podmore about this latest book, Life After Dead Pool, Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River (Torrey House Press). Based in Bluff, Utah, Podmore has spent more than a decade writing about water and conservation issues in the western United States.
  • Praise for Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West

    “Zak Podmore has written a book of promise: a promise beauty matters; a promise that history lives through us; a promise that the Colorado River teaches us about life and death and the depth of both.”

    — Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Hour of the Land and Erosion

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Questions, comments, or suggestions for the show? Email radioactive@krcl.org. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

 

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