2012 FESTIVAL 78 min. Filmmaker: Gary Marcuse. By declaring that nature must be conquered in the name of progress, Chairman Mao ushered in an era of environmental degradation. Now, passionate activists strive to preserve their natural wonders, educate their compatriots, and encourage public debate. WATCH TRAILER
2012 FESTIVAL 10 min. Filmmaker: Joey Diaz. Clean water needs around the world are addressed in this film that highlights the drawings of Zack George. [Student Filmmaker]
2012 FESTIVAL 57 min. Filmmaker: Mark Decena. “Whiskey is for drinkin’. Water is for fightin’,” says Jeff Ehlert, a fly fishing guide in Rocky Mountain National Park, recalling a saying heard throughout the Colorado River Basin. Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to […]
2012 FESTIVAL 17 min. Filmmaker: Neil Ever Osborne. This film examines the emerging field of conservation photography through the voices of influential photographers, editors, and conservationists. WATCH FILM
2012 FESTIVAL 71 min. Filmmakers: Mark Dixon and Ben Evans. Y.E.R.T. (Your Environmental Road Trip): 50 States. 1 Year. Zero Garbage? Called to action by a planet in peril, three friends hit the road – traveling with hope, humor, and all of their garbage – to explore every state in America in search of the […]
2011 FESTIVAL 6 min. Filmmakers: Amy Brost and Harvey Wang. In 1975, on the crime-ridden Lower East Side of New York City, Adam Purple started a garden behind his tenement home. By 1986, The Garden of Eden was world famous and had grown to 15,000 square feet. For Adam–a social activist, philosopher, artist, and revolutionary–The […]
2011 FESTIVAL 44 min. Filmmaker: Christian Baumeister. It is hard not to feel despair at the overwhelming images of rainforest destruction. But while documenting the region’s remarkable wildlife for the making of Amazon Alive, film-maker Christian Baumeister has also witnessed a changing mood: a growing belief that it is more valuable as a living forest […]
2011 FESTIVAL 55 min. Filmmaker: Lisa Oakley. Tucked into a remote corner of Alaska, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a place where wilderness is experienced on an epic scale. Meet the early conservationists who helped establish the refuge, the Alaska Natives who rely upon it for their subsistence way of life, and those who […]
2011 FESTIVAL 14 min. Filmmaker: Chris Cresci. As clearcutting continues to ravage California’s coastal redwood region, Farmer, an environmental activist decides to tree sit to defend the McKay Tract. A hundred feet up in the ancient redwood canopy, Farmer must battle the elements and avoid isolation as he fights for a sustainable future. WEBSITE
2011 FESTIVAL 79 min. Filmmakers: Caitlin Boyle and Lucy Flores. Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale […]
