2011 FESTIVAL 80 min. Filmmakers: Briar March and Lyn Collie. Three people in a unique Pacific Island community face the first devastating effects of climate change, including a terrifying flood. Will they decide to stay with their island home or move to a new and unfamiliar land, leaving their culture and language behind forever? [Warning: […]
2011 FESTIVAL 3 min. Filmmaker: Jeremy Hung. A young boy meets a magician to find out what happens to our trash after we dispose of them. WATCH FILM
2011 FESTIVAL 39 min. Filmmakers: Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon. Villagers in central China take on a chemical company that is poisoning their land and water. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well. Academy Award Nominee – Best Documentary Short Subject WEBSITE
2011 FESTIVAL 99 min. Filmmaker: Lucy Walker. Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys to the world’s largest garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate […]
2011 FESTIVAL 13 min. Filmmaker: Rob Owens. Filmmaker Rob Owens crafts a beautiful and moving documentary of the lives of the eagles at the National Conservation Training Center. With its incredible and up-close footage, When Eagles Dream brings you into the eagle nest, allowing the audience to witness nature and the eagle pair as they […]
2011 FESTIVAL 64 min. Filmmaker: David Lavallee. White Water, Black Gold is an investigative point-of-view documentary about David Lavallee’s journey down the Athabasca River and across western Canada in search of answers about the battle between water and oil. Following an imaginary drop of water, and later an imaginary drop of oil, he discovers the […]
2011 FESTIVAL 83 min. Filmmaker: Laura Isreal. Wind power… it’s sustainable… it burns no fossil fuels… it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy […]
2010 FESTIVAL 34 min. Filmmaker: Kevin White. This inspiring film about the STRAW Project (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed) follows the progress from STRAW’s origins in 1992 as a fourth-grade class project into a remarkable program that has restored over twenty miles of habitat, galvanized the local community, and led to significant educational innovations […]
2010 FESTIVAL 50 min. Filmmaker: James Byrne. The lush floodplains of central Mozambique, once teeming with wildlife, were ravaged during a fifteen-year civil war. Stunning cinematography captures the successes of conservationists battling to restore this 4,000 square kilometer park to its former glory.
2010 FESTIVAL 26 min. Filmmaker: Ollie J. Lucks. A dramatic tale about the Albatross, king of the sea. Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ forms the backbone of this story. Stunning footage of this beautiful bird, shot in New Zealand’s Sub-Antarctic Islands, is woven with the harsh realities of the impact of commercial fishing. This […]
