2014 FESTIVAL 47 min. Filmmaker: Ted Remerowski The past ten years have seen a phenomenal explosion in the organic food movement as it has moved from a niche market to mainstream. This film looks at a number of organic corporations and shows how they are managing, or in some cases, failing to live up to […]
2014 FESTIVAL 56 min. Filmmaker: DeSiree Fawn This film documents the tensions between Sun Valley Idaho’s “wolf lovers” and “wolf haters.” As a fifth generation native to Sun Valley, DeSiree Fawn documents the war over wolves that’s taking place in the West, the result of a successful reintroduction of the species into the same area […]
2014 FESTIVAL. 28 min. Filmmaker: Gina Catanzarite Since 2006, White Nose Syndrome has killed more than 6 million bats in North America. This Emmy® Award-winning documentary follows the extraordinary efforts of Pennsylvania’s biologists, state agencies and advocacy groups as they race to track and save cave bats in the state. WEBSITE
2014 FESTIVAL 68 min. Filmmaker: Andrew Garrison Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the unseen men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin sanitation workers on their daily routes to observe and later convince them to perform a […]
2014 FESTIVAL 14 min. Filmmakers: Drew Hesket, Lauren Lindberg, Ryan Westra Amidst national controversy surrounding the potential dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ environmental activist Pauline Matt stands alone to protect her native homeland – the Blackfeet Reservation of northern Montana. [Student Filmmakers] [Student Film Award Winner] TRAILER
2014 FESTIVAL 93 min. Filmmaker: ML Lincoln Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation which will carry Edward Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American wilderness – the spirit of the West. WEBSITE TRAILER […]
2013 FESTIVAL 1 min. Filmmaker: Jeremy R. Roberts. Inspired by a Rudyard Kipling poem, this ultra short film is a simple meditation on road reclamation in a deciduous forest. WEBSITE
2013 FESTIVAL 53 min. Filmmakers: Angelica Fuentes, Donovan Webster and Emilio Azcarraga-Jean. Narrated by Academy Award winners, Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, Amazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey bearing witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally mined gold. WEBSITE TRAILER
2013 FESTIVAL 90 min. Filmmaker: Graham Meriwether. American Meat is a pro-farmer look at chicken, hog and cattle production in America. Beginning with a history of our current industrial system, the feedlots and confinement operations are unveiled, not through hidden cameras, but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there. From there, […]
