Name Alice Days Role Director | Spouse Lincoln H. Day | |
Movies Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint Of War | ||
Alice T. Day is an American director and writer known for her film Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives, which she directed with her husband Lincoln H. Day. She is also known for extensive world peace organization work and work within the sociological field.
Contents
- Biography
- Scarred Lands Wounded Lives
- Remarkable Survivors Insights into Successful Aging among Women by Alice T Day
- Awards and Nominations
- References
Biography
Day was born in New York. She studied at Smith College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts,. She went on to attend Columbia University, where she received a Master of Arts degree in sociology, and the Australian National University, where she received a PhD. Days has served as a Hofstee Fellow at The Hauge and was the director of an Australian federal government project entitled Successful Aging, A.C.T. during the 1990s. She is currently a board member of Council for a Livable World, a non-profit organization against nuclear weapons in the United States, as well as a member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Days met her husband while attending Columbia University. The two of them have worked on many different projects together including books and the film Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives. They are both dual citizens of Australia and America and have done extensive traveling throughout the entire world in pursuit of sociological research.
Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives
In 2008, the Days released the documentary Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives. The film uses on-site and archival footage and examines how war and its preparations can cause detrimental change to the environment and natural resources. This includes expert analysis on various wars throughout history and involves several examples of how the creating of munitions for example can cause environmental pollution. Critical reviews for the film have been positive, as reviewers felt that while the documentary's topic might be depressing for some that viewers would "come away knowing a whole lot more than [they] ever wanted to about war's impact on the environment-and that's just one of the reasons [that they] should watch it."
The film was also shown in 2010 at the FILManthropy festival "Open Your Eyes Program." The film aired at 9:00am on October 3 of the festival and was in association with Fund for Sustainable Tomorrows.
Remarkable Survivors: Insights into Successful Aging among Women by Alice T. Day
In a review by Elizabeth A. Kutza, the reviewer says the book's "strength comes from the longitudinal nature of its data as well as in its blending of qualitative and quantitative approach to issues." The review discusses how Alice used information gathered from 1000 older women in order to identify a pattern between these women. Personal interviews were conducted with 20 of the women used to gather the research findings and all of it was used to make the final product.