Catching the Sun asks the hard questions of how a clean energy economy may actually be built, through the stories of unemployed workers seeking to retool at a solar jobs training program in Richmond, California. The film tells the story of environmental transformation from the perspective of workers who may build a solution with their own hands, and their challenges speak to one of the biggest questions of our time: Will America be able to build a clean energy economy?
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Shalini Kantayya finished in the top 10 out of 12,000 filmmakers on Fox’s "On The Lot," a show by Steven Spielberg in search of Hollywood’s next great director. Her sci-fi short, a DROP of LIFE, won Best Short at Palm Beach International, and was broadcast on national television in the U.S. and India. A William D. Fulbright Scholar, Shalini has received recognition from IFP Spotlight on Documentary, Jerome Hill Centennial, and New York Women in Film and Television. She is a Sundance Fellow, a TED Fellow, and was a finalist for the ABC | Disney Directing Program.
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