Wednesday, Apr 12, 2006
The PBS version of the El Malpais National Monument film ?Remembered Earth ? New Mexico?s High Desert? will receive its second national primetime broadcast on Wednesday, May 10th, on PBS. The film, called ?by turns poetic, irreverent and ingenious? by The Washington Post, has been shown in environmental film festivals around the world and was first broadcast nationally on PBS in February, reaching more than a million viewers. You can check the website for the show (www.pbs.org/rememberedearth) to find if and when it is being broadcast in your area.
With the voice and writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian author N. Scott Momaday, ?Remembered Earth? presents a vision of hope for humankind?s relationship to the natural world by interpreting the myth, beauty and power of a scarred but sacred landscape of the American West. The orginal score is by Academy Award-winner Todd Boekelheide. Native American actress Irene Bedard (Smoke Signals, The New World) narrates.
The high definition film features El Malpais National Monument, with images of El Morro, Chaco Culture, Navajo, Pueblo, Forest Service and BLM lands throughout northwest New Mexico, all of which are interpreted at a multi-agency facility in Grants, New Mexico where the film is presented to visitors (www.nps.gov/elma/NNMVC.htm).
?Remembered Earth? is only the second NPS film to be broadcast nationally. The Wrangell-St. Elias NP&P film ?Crown of the Continent? was the first and is still in rotation on standard and high definition channels, extending the reach of the park?s interpretive program through mainstream media broadcast. Because of broadcast, that film has now been seen by more than five million viewers outside the park.
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