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"Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite's Lost Valley" Video

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Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite's Lost Valley DVD or VIDEOCASSETTE
(Narrated by Shari Belafonte; Directed by Melissa Berman; Produced by Deborah Landowne, Restore Hetch Hetchy, 2003). 19 Minutes, Color.

Donation: $10.00 for either DVD or VHS format; postage paid.

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Restore Hetch Hetchy is proud to announce the completion of its new 20-minute documentary film, "Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite's Lost Valley." Narrated by Shari Belafonte, the film features brilliant footage and photographs of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River by Emmy-award winner Sterling Johnson who lives near Yosemite and by the late Galen Rowell, formerly of Bishop. Of course, Hetch Hetchy's great granite walls and booming waterfalls, Tueeulala and Wapama, are also included. The film will be used to promote Restore Hetch Hetchy's mission for a "win-win" restoration of Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley, and is now available on both VHS and DVD formats.

The film features informative interviews with members of our Board of Directors including Harold Wood, Chair; Jerry Meral, former Executive Director of the Planning and Conservation League; Bob Hackamack, Chair of the RHH Technical/Engineering Committee; Spreck Rosekrans, Senior Water Policy Analyst with Environmental Defense and Mark Cederborg, a habitat restoration specialist and member of the RHH Restoration Committee. Also featured are interviews with Ron Good, the RHH Executive Director and RHH Advisory Committee member Dr. Roderick Nash, Professor Emeritus of History at UC Santa Barbara, author of Wilderness and the American Mind.

We're especially pleased that the film includes excerpts from our interview with former Interior Secretary Don Hodel at his home in Colorado. In 1988, Secretary Hodel proposed Hetch Hetchy's restoration and commissioned a preliminary study by the Bureau of Reclamation to explore "win-win" restoration options. In his interview, Secretary Hodel advocates an update of that preliminary study, and states: "If the question is, 'Where do you go from here?' It seems to me it's still necessary to have a study. You need to know what the predictions are as to what will happen. You've got to be able to show San Francisco it won't lose its water, it can get its power replaced. I believe that's what a study will show. . . I think that you could fund the removal of Hetch Hetchy dam with a public campaign that wouldn't require any federal money. . . It's like the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. That was done with public funds, not with taxpayer's money. And, it was a great project."

The film is a tribute to the dedication and professional experience of many volunteers, including Deborah Landowne, the film's producer and member of the RHH Advisory Committee and Melissa Berman, who wrote an inspiring script in the voice of the Tuolumne river. It is the culmination of a 3 year effort by Restore Hetch Hetchy and members of the Bay Area, New York and Los Angeles film industries. Most of the companies and individuals involved donated their services and equipment, including: Bugi'd Productions, Lux Editorial, and Polarity Post Production, of San Francisco; Todd A-O and the William Morris Agency of Los Angeles and Bruce Aronson of New York, who wrote the original score. The project would not have been completed so successfully without the generosity of everyone involved.

The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco recently hosted the film's Bay Area premier, when RHH Executive Director Ron Good made a noontime luncheon presentation. Other presentations have been made to civic organizations in Yosemite and Sonora. We're hoping that YOU will host a get-together in your home and show the new documentary film to your friends and neighbors, and will make arrangements to show it to local civic organizations such as the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, or the local Chamber of Commerce and environmental groups

The new film was the opening feature at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on January 9 and 10, 2004, in Nevada City, California. At the end of the Festival, "Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite's Lost Valley," received the "Best of Entries" Award.

The film was also recently shown at the Tangle River Festival in Sacramento and the Siskiyou Film Festival in Ashland, Oregon.

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To order, use our online catalog, or send a donation of $10.00, specify DVD or VHS format, to:

Restore Hetch Hetchy
P.O. Box 3538
Sonora, CA 95370
Telephone: (209) 533-4481.

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