SITTING STILL | FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT | NBFF 25TH ANNIVERSARY

The 25th Newport Beach Film Festival runs from October 17 to 24, 2024. For more, visit https://newportbeachfilmfest.com

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SITTING STILL offers a rare opportunity to get inside the mind of Laurie Olin, a brilliant and irreverent landscape architect and urban designer, and to see what he sees. In a time when global values increasingly reflect “profit over people,” Olin's motivation has always been to create a more democratic and egalitarian society through healthy, shared public space.

Environmental and human stakes have simply never been higher. In many ways, the most pressing challenges of the natural environment and social disunity can be healed through the power of landscape, because the land is precisely what brings us together, and public space remains the space of democracy.

Part portrait of an artist, and part exploration of his social concerns, SITTING STILL invites the voices of other design luminaries into the conversation, including architectural visionaries Frank Gehry and Billie Tsien, and esteemed landscape designer and artist, Walter Hood, among others.