5 min Filmmaker: Woonam Kim Black Gold is an animated film that reflects on the story of traditional indigenous trading routes while questioning the value and impact of today’s expanding network of oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia. 7:00 Saturday at Reynolds Hall – Block 10
93 min Filmmakers: Mari-Lynn Evans, Jordan Freeman Blood on the Mountain is a searing investigation into the economic and environmental injustices that have resulted from industrial control in West Virginia. This new feature documentary details the struggles of a hard-working, misunderstood people, who have historically faced limited choices and have never benefited fairly from the […]
13 min Filmmaker: Michael T. Miller An explosion in unregulated ‘rat-hole’ coal mines turns a rural community in India into the Wild West until the environmental destruction prompts the government to ban coal mining completely. Mine owners and villagers clash in this moving examination of the cost of unmonitored industrial development. 3:57 pm on Saturday […]
75 min Filmmaker: Jeffrey Orlowski The story of one photographer’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet: the Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, James Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the […]
World Premiere 74 min Filmmakers: Brandon Kramer and Lance Kramer At the height of the recession, City of Trees tells a deeply personal story about a stimulus-funded effort to put unemployed people back to work by planting trees in Washington, DC. City of Trees thrusts viewers into the inspiring but messy world of job training […]
11 min Filmmaker: Jeremy Roberts At the end of the 2014 fishing season, five respected fly fishermen came together to celebrate the joy and passion of fly fishing and to discuss the biggest threat anglers face: a changing climate and warming trout waters. 4:15 pm at the Opera House – Block 8 TRAILER
85 min Filmmakers: Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn Follow filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers one of the most destructive industries facing the planet today and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about animal agriculture. This documentary reveals the devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet. 7:35 […]
102 min Filmmaker:Vivienne DeCourcy From the green hills of Ireland to arid Ethiopia, to London’s Chelsea, Dare to be Wild is a romantic adventure based on the against-all-odds true story of Mary Reynolds, a modern-day heroine, whose quest is to show the world the power of wild nature as she reaches for her dreams – […]
46 min Filmmakers: Kira Ivanoff and Jess Reiss In the network of rivers and streams that crisscross the Amazon there is a hidden electric grid – a bizarre community of fish that have an electric sixth sense. They can communicate wirelessly, control each other remotely and emit shocks that can stop a human heart. Electric […]
58 min Filmmaker: Mike Youngren This story of systematic failure centers on the chemical spill in January 2014 into the Elk River near Charleston, WV. A coal-cleaning chemical fouled the area water system and closed the tap on 300,000 residents. The documentary asks, “Where were the agencies that are supposed to protect us from ourselves?” […]
