Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
All Over the Map: I Dream of Seney
20 min Filmmaker: Peter Schriemer America’s Nature Guy, Peter Schriemer, reconnects families with nature in this fun travel show exploring our Wildlife Refuges. In this episode, Peter takes viewers through Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the north woods of Michigan – featuring loons, frogs, beetles, snakes, and the return of the Trumpeter Swan. 7 pm on […]
Bikes vs. Cars
88 min Filmmaker: Fredrik Gertten Bikes vs. Cars depicts a global crisis where climate is changing; resource depletion is real and cities are sprawling with more and more surface consumed by the car. The bike is a great tool for change, but the powerful interests who gain from the auto industry invest billions each year […]
Black Gold
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
Blood on the Mountain
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 […]
Broken Landscape
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 […]
Chasing Ice
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 […]
City of Trees
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 […]
Co2ld Waters
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
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
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 […]
