Song of the Spindle
2013 FESTIVAL 4 min. Filmmaker: Drew Christie. In this animated, humorous, and informative conversation between a sperm whale and a man, each tries to convince the other that his brain is bigger. WEBSITE TRAILER FULL FILM
Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
Spotter Come-Home
2013 FESTIVAL 8 min. Filmmaker: Giuseppe Bucciarelli. Spotter, a five- year-old male Black Rhino, just decided to explore the world outside Lewa Downs, his heavily protected conservancy. Now he roams a land where armed poachers are after him and his immensely valuable horn. He must immediately be brought back home to save his life. TRAILER
STAND
2013 Festival 44 min. Filmmakers: Anthony Bonello and Nicolas Teichrob . Mashing adventure with real world issues, STAND will take you into the heart of the largest temperate rainforest on the planet—the Great Bear in British Columbia, Canada. Hung on the skeleton of a good ol’ fashioned adventure undertaken by a group of surfers, the […]
Switch
2013 FESTIVAL 98 min. Filmmaker: Harry Lynch. Dr. Tinker explores the world’s leading energy sites, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels, many highly restricted and never before seen on film. He gets straight answers from the people driving energy today, international leaders of government, industry and academia. In the end, he cuts through the […]
The Condor’s Shadow
2013 FESTIVAL 79 min. Filmmaker: Jeff McLoughlin. Set in the ruggedly beautiful Southern California habitat of the iconic California condor, The Condor’s Shadow explores the great hope and extreme lengths that biologists, zookeepers, scientists and a feisty condor with the Native American name Pitahsi bring to the task of pulling the condor back from the […]
The Ends of the Earth: Alaska’s Wild Peninsula
2013 FESTIVAL 60 min. Filmmaker: John Grabowska. The Alaska Peninsula is a cloud-cloaked wilderness of towering volcanoes, rolling tundra and the greatest concentration of the largest bears on earth. The writings of naturalist Loren Eiseley inspire this essay on a landscape where bears outnumber people and the sockeye salmon fishery is the most prolific in […]
The Hungry Tide
2013 FESTIVAL 88 min. Filmmaker: Tom Zubrycki. The central Pacific nation of Kiribati is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Sea level rise and increasing salinity are threatening the lives of 105,000 people spread over 33 atolls in this remote corner of the Pacific. It’s the same ocean, which for […]
The Lost Bird Project
2013 FESTIVAL 57 min. Filmmakers: Deborah Dickson and Muffie Meyer. The Lost Bird Project is a documentary about the stories of five birds driven to extinction in modern times and sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize them. The film follows McGrain as he searches for the locations where the birds were last seen in the […]
The People and the Olive
2013 FESTIVAL 70 min. Filmmakers: Aaron Dennis and Jacob Wheeler. When a group of American ultra-marathoners sets out to run 129 miles in 5 days across the West Bank they discover that in replanting uprooted olive trees they are planting hope and building cultural bridges. WEBSITE TRAILER
The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan: Developing a Community
2013 FESTIVAL 30 min. Filmmaker: Doug Canfield. Pima County, Arizona is one of the most biologically diverse and fastest growing counties in the U.S. This is the story of a diverse community that is working together to develop one of the most ambitious Habitat Conservation Plans in the country and save the Sonoran Desert from […]
