Los Angeles Times entertainment reporter, John horn hosts a conversation with Laura Gabbert and Justin Stein of No Impact Man.
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About the film:
Environmentalist Colin Beavan is embarking on an experiment in green living by attempting to have as little negative environmental impact as possible for a year. In other words: no takeout, no taxis, no toilet paper. Although she’s generally game, the transition is going to be a bit more difficult for Beavan’s wife, Michelle Conlin. “Mom doesn’t really like nature,” she explains to their young daughter.
Conlin is the key to this smart and entertaining documentary, helping us relate to her husband’s project through her resistance, skepticism, and eventual conversion. Filmmakers Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein give us extraordinary access to the family for the full year, and the film is as much an intimate portrait of a modern marriage as a primer for green living. Rather than lecturing the viewer about why and how we must change our ways, No Impact Man provides us an enjoyable way to see how we could adjust; through Beavan’s extreme example, we can start to contemplate just how far each of us is willing to go in service of our own beliefs.
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