2010 FESTIVAL Filmmaker: Cara Schildtknecht. Just Water is a collection of photographs depicting the filmmaker’s relationship with water throughout her life. The film aims to illuminate the importance of water in human lives. [Student Filmmaker]
2010 FESTIVAL 30 min. Filmmaker: Richard Sidey. A non-verbal visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage of photography and video captured by 2008 ACFF student award winner, Richard Sidey. Set to an ambient score by Norwegian Arctic based musician, Boreal Taiga, this experimental documentary transports us to the […]
2010 FESTIVAL 26 min. Filmmaker: Moynul Huda.
2010 FESTIVAL 40 min. Filmmaker: Michael Buckley. Using undercover footage and stills, Meltdown in Tibet exposes huge and potentially catastrophic dam-building projects in Tibet. To make way for these hydropower projects and for mining ventures, Tibetan nomads are being forced off their traditional grassland habitat-and resettled in bleak villages, where they can’t make a decent […]
2010 FESTIVAL. Are there more dead people than living people in Shepherdstown? Young filmmakers (ages 9 -14) dig into the question of the environmental impact and sustainability of cemeteries. [Student Filmmakers]
2010 FESTIVAL 10 min. In this exclusive, 10-minute sneak peek, co-producers Audra Haddock Martenot and Rob Owens (When Eagles Dream) highlight the growing movement of connecting people to nature, with a special focus on the importance of engaging children with nature and the outdoors. Pre-order the full-length DVD (available soon) at the Festival through the […]
2010 FESTIVAL 18 min. Filmmaker: Ramin Bahrani. This short film traces the epic, existential journey of a common plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for purpose in the world after its grocery-purchasing “maker” discards it. Headed for the Pacific Ocean trash vortex, the plastic bag hopes to lose itself among its own kind.
2010 FESTIVAL 58 min. Filmmaker: Carlos Bolado. Competing demands for water, food, and energy in the ten million acre Klamath River Basin have pitted farmers, Native Americans, utility companies, and fishermen against each other for decades. This conflict ultimately led to a consensus for conservation and to an agreement to remove four dams and restore […]
2010 FESTIVAL Filmmaker: Robert Coulter. In this award-winning short, middleschooler Robert Coulter explores the contributions to the field of entomology by his great-great Uncle Senekerim, a Harvard-trained Turkish immigrant. [Student Filmmaker]
2010 FESTIVAL Filmmaker: Mike Wham. Sharks are under attack from overfishing, by catch, pollution, and climate change. Shark experts discuss the threats facing sharks and what can be done to save them. [Student Filmmaker]
