The Maui News
With a nod to being environmentally friendly, Maui Film Festival adds solar to its star power
By RICK CHATENEVER, Entertainment Editor
POSTED: June 12, 2008 S
WAILEA — Noting that all of the outdoor screening venues are solar powered this year, Maui Film Festival Director Barry Rivers injected his own jolt of energy as he kicked off the ninth annual Maui Film Festival at Wailea on Wednesday night at a gala twilight reception at the Fairmont Kea Lani Maui.
“It’s time for all of us to stop thinking like dead dinosaurs, whose energy we’re riding around on,” he said in opening remarks accompanied by his wife, festival co-director Stella Rivers.
“We needed them then, but not now.”
There’s growing green consciousness running through this year’s festival, which continues ...
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