2013 FESTIVAL 18 min. Filmmaker: KM Taj-Biul Hasan. This is a film on global warming. In this film, it has been tried to face the issues through some innovative ways to ensure education and basic human needs as well as preserve the environment. It would be an astonishing effort to face the global warming of […]
2013 FESTIVAL 45 min. Filmmaker: Melissa Thompson. “I was raised to believe in David and Goliath,” says Chicago resident and cancer survivor Leila Mendez. “That you can slay the giant.” Follow one woman’s journey into activism and her community’s fight against the biggest monster of all, one of the country’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power […]
2013 FESTIVAL 50 min. Filmmakers: Earth Touch/Graeme Duane. The Cape gannet is an extraordinary predator and has evolved specifically to hunt sardines. But intensive fishing is threatening fish stocks – with devastating consequences for the gannet and other species. WEBSITE
2013 FESTIVAL 80 min. Filmmakers: Maxine Trump and Josh Granger. Musicwood is an adventure-filled journey, a political thriller with music at its heart. An unusual band of the most famous guitar-makers in the world (Bob Taylor of Taylor guitars, Chris Martin of Martin Guitars and Dave Berryman of Gibson Guitars) travel together into the heart […]
2013 FESTIVAL 80 min. Filmmaker: Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we’ve got nuclear power wrong? WEBSITE TRAILER
2013 FESTIVAL 23 min. Filmmaker: Becca Friedman. A look at the world of geriatric zoo animal care, through Colo–the oldest living gorilla in captivity–on her 55th birthday. [Student Filmmaker] WEBSITE TRAILER
2013 FESTIVAL 57 min. Filmmaker: Angela Sun. Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth, yet its become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, syphoning plastics from three distant continents. Angela Sun uncovers this mysterious phenomenon shedding light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption only to learn […]
2013 FESTIVAL 27 min. Filmmakers: Peggy Fleming and Sean Furmage. The Potomac River is the drinking water source for most of the 6 million people who live in the Potomac River Watershed. Environmentalists, scientists and general managers of the water utilities discuss the issues involved to have a clean and healthy Potomac River. In our daily […]
2013 FESTIVAL 74 min. Filmmaker: Nancy Kelly. This stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand spotlights the rebels, a group of citizens from many walks of life, who fought to preserve open space, protect agriculture and wildlife, establish public parks next to a densely populated urban center and shaped the environmental movement as we know […]
2013 FESTIVAL 27 min. Filmmakers: David Huntley, Carl Safina, and John Angier Trinidad’s Turtle Giants is an episode of Saving the Ocean on PBS. Witness the spectacular comeback of Earth’s last warm-blooded monster reptile, the 1000-pound leatherback turtle, now thriving on Caribbean beaches. Trinidad’s leatherbacks were heading for extinction, but now 10,000 visitors a year […]
