Edwin B. Forsythe NWR
2012 FESTIVAL 15 min. Filmmaker: Doug Canfield. A cinematic journey to one of America’s wildest landscapes.
Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
Farmageddon
2012 FESTIVAL 90 min. Filmmaker: Kristin Canty. Farmageddon is the story of small, family farms providing safe, healthy foods to their communities. They were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies. WEBSITE
Fish Meat: Choose Your Farm Wisely
2012 FESTIVAL 29 min. Filmmaker: Ted Caplow. Two friends, a fish scientist and environmental engineer, take a sailing voyage through the cradle of western civilization to pull back the cover on modern fish farming. Along the way they discover the tragedy of bluefin tuna and the joy of carp. WATCH TRAILER
Green Waste
2012 FESTIVAL 16 min. Filmmaker: Denise M. Stilley. What if every person could actually make an impact on the world? [Student Filmmaker] WATCH TRAILER
Haunted Waters
2012 FESTIVAL 6 min. Filmmaker: Ziggy Livnat. This short film is about a successful campaign that led to the removal of more then 1,500 square meters of abandoned fishing nets in the Red Sea. WEBSITE
ICE BEAR (3D)
2012 FESTIVAL 50 min. Filmmaker: Adam Ravetch. ICE BEAR is the first ever 3D Polar Bear film made for television. This is the story of a young bear’s epic migration through the icy waters of Hudson Bay. ICE BEAR features breath-taking cinematography shot over twelve months, capturing rarely seen bear behavior. [WARNING: The graphic nature of […]
Into the Gyre
2012 FESTIVAL 44 min. Filmmaker: Scott Elliott. Thirty-four volunteer researchers, scientists and sailors participated in a groundbreaking expedition to study the effect of plastic pollution in the North Atlantic Gyre. This film follows four of those researchers to the Sargasso Sea. WEBSITE
Journey to the End of the Winter (Voyage au bout de l’Hiver)
2012 FESTIVAL 78 min. Filmmakers: Anne and Erik Lapied. Anne and Erik Lapied recount their adventure in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park, where they spent the better part of a year making a documentary about the king of those mountains: his highness, the ibex. WATCH TRAILER
Love. Not Loss.
2012 FESTIVAL 4 min. Filmmaker: Rodney Absom. Love. Not Loss. presents a new biodiversity message. It challenges communicators to talk about nature in terms that people want to hear. [World Premiere] WATCH FILM
Man-Eating Super Croc
2012 FESTIVAL 48 min. Filmmaker: Lawrence Cumbo. A man-eating crocodile terrorizes a town in the Philippines until a team of brave hunters captures a Super Croc bigger than any other… over 20 feet long. But did they get the right crocodile? Is there another one in the swamp even bigger? [WARNING: Violent Scenes] WATCH TRAILER
