2012 FESTIVAL 11 min. Filmmaker: Roddy Tabatabai. Over 4 billion pounds of surplus office interiors get dumped in America’s landfills every year. Rose Tourje set out on a mission to preserve and redirect that furniture to charities and non-profits all over the world. [World Premiere] WATCH FILM
2012 FESTIVAL 52 min. Filmmaker: Laura Brooks. Bat City USA delves into Austin’s complicated relationship with the world’s largest urban bat colony. Discover how the bats eventually became a beloved part of what makes Austin unique and weird. [World Premiere] WATCH TRAILER
2012 FESTIVAL 73 min. Filmmakers: Beth and George Gage. Tim DeChristopher’s effective act of civil disobedience against a 2008 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction proved to be an act that would redefine patriotism in our time, igniting a spirit of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice. [Green Fire Award […]
2012 FESTIVAL 62 min. Filmmakers: Bill Finnegan and Stephen Kellert. A visually stunning and enlightening film that shows how biophilic design points the way toward creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans. WEBSITE
2012 FESTIVAL 6 min. Filmmaker: Savita Bhatti. This silent animation is a touching story of the bond that exists between a boy and a tree that grows in the courtyard of his house. The film traces the journey of the little boy into adulthood and his employment with a timber merchant. [Student Filmmaker] WATCH TRAILER
2012 FESTIVAL 86 min. Filmmakers: Robbie Gemmel and John Kirby. In 2001 a major wind farm was proposed for the middle of Nantucket Sound. Dubbed “Cape Wind,” the project was billed as a clean, green power plant that should be welcomed by all. Instead, Cape Wind became one of the decade’s most confounding political battles. […]
2012 FESTIVAL 12 min. Filmmaker: Rachel Wegh. Taking a creative and psychological approach to the genre of wildlife filmmaking, this film serves to remind us of a less familiar look at our cities. [Student Filmmaker] [World Premiere]
2012 FESTIVAL 23 min. Filmmaker: Jim Surkamp. Caroline “Danske” Dandridge was an American poet who lived in Shepherdstown from 1854 – 1914. These short films highlight some of her writings about her life and beloved garden.
2012 FESTIVAL 94 min. Filmmaker: Bryan D. Hopkins. Dirty Energy tells the personal story of those directly affected by the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the spill of millions of barrels of oil. WEBSITE
2012 FESTIVAL 66 min. Filmmaker: Steven Lake. Our planet’s economic and environmental future hangs on an unlikely thread — the clothesline. Steven Lake cris-crosses the world to unravel the reasons and consequences for the banishing of clotheslines in favor of tumble dryers. WEBSITE
