2011 FESTIVAL 19 min. Filmmaker: Rory Banyard. Seeing Death Valley is a visual exploration of one of America’s most extreme desert landscapes. The film explores the geology, natural history and cultural hisotry of Death Valley and highlights the different ways the Valley has been seen over time. Seeing Death Valley is narrated by Donald Sutherland.
2011 FESTIVAL 22 min. Filmmaker: Laurie Sumiye Filiak. In 2025 only five rare Palila birds survive in the wild and a woman journeys to Hawaii, known as “the Extinction Capital of the World,” to see the bird before it becomes extinct. She reflects on the fate of three other Hawaiian birds, and how they were […]
2011 FESTIVAL 88 min. Filmmaker: Josh Tickell. The Big Fix begins as a comprehensive investigation into the massive Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill but then digs even deeper to reveal a darker and more unsettling truth about the world we live in today. By exposing the root causes of the spill, filmmakers Josh and Rebecca […]
2011 FESTIVAL 84 min. Filmmaker: Ian Cheney. The City Dark chronicles the disappearance of darkness. When filmmaker Ian Cheney moves to New York City and discovers skies almost completely devoid of stars, a simple question – what do we lose, when we lose the night? – spawns a journey to America’s brightest and darkest corners. […]
2011 FESTIVAL 5 min. Filmmaker: Jason Stefaniak. A young girl discovers the majestic qualities of nature in a fast-paced urban environment.
2011 FESTIVAL 60 min. Filmmaker: Thomas Behrend. This is the story of a silverback gorilla called Makumba who has reigned supreme in the forests of the Congo for more than 10 years. Life in the jungle is a running battle with rivals to hold on to his crown – and his family. He defends them […]
2011 FESTIVAL 5 min. Filmmaker: Kevin Gallagher. A six month journey along the 2,200 mile long Appalachian Trail, condensed and reinterpreted into five minutes of stop-motion. WATCH FILM
2011 FESTIVAL 95 min. Filmmaker: Bill Haney. In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so. It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal. The mining and burning […]
2011 FESTIVAL 60 min. Filmmaker: Mark Terry. From the winners of the 2010 ACFF Audience Choice Award comes a new film on the latest climate change discoveries being made at both ends of the earth – The Arctic and Antarctica. Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, Canada’s Northwest Passage was first […]
2011 FESTIVAL 16 min. Filmmaker: Christina Choate. These days the term ‘species’ is thrown around as if it were a definite unit, but the realities of defining a species are much trickier, and more contentious, than they seem.
