2010 FESTIVAL Captain Wade Murphy has dredged Chesapeake Bay oysters for years from the deck of his sail-powered skipjack, Rebecca. Declining populations of the bivalve, though, may mean the end of this waterman’s lifelong career. [Student Filmmaker]
2010 FESTIVAL Filmmaker: Caroline de Koninck. A young huntress living in a land of unending daylight frightens the sun away to make her hunting easier. Once she realizes the sun was the life force of many living things, she finds a way to fix her mistake, which results in the origin of day and night. […]
2010 FESTIVAL Filmmaker: Aaron Molenda. An elegiac look at the disappearing wild places in our own backyard of the Eastern Panhandle. [Student Filmmaker]
2010 FESTIVAL 80 min. An awe-inspiring profile of Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wengari Maathai’s thirty-year journey of courage to protect the environment, ensure equality between men and women, defend human rights, and promote democracy-all sprouting from the simple act of planting trees.
2010 FESTIVAL 12 min. Filmmaker: Javier Mrad. This mesmerizing stop-motion short reflects the struggles of an anachronistic Super 8 camera to maintain relevancy in the face of dizzying and overwhelming effects of excessive consumption and waste on an increasingly plastic civilization.
2010 FESTIVAL 52 min. Filmmaker: Mark Terry. The heroic researchers of Vernadsky Station in Antarctica endure harsh and life-threatening conditions to study the new phenomenon of suicide among penguins; identify effects on global sea levels due to ice melting; and document new vegetation growing in the world’s largest desert.
2010 FESTIVAL 12 min. Filmmaker: Brent Balalas. The Bering Sea is one of the wildest and most productive ecosystems on the planet. The tribal Aleut people living on these islands have lived in harmony with this ecosystem for generations. But today, the Bering Sea, its ecosystem, and the people who depend upon it for survival […]
2010 FESTIVAL 5 min. Filmmaker: Peter Wedel. German, with English sub-titles, The Bill offers a wry commentary on climate change through a Happy Hour discussion among three friends.
2010 FESTIVAL 90 min. Filmmaker: Louie Psihoyos. Winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Documentary Film, The Cove highlights the former dolphin trainer cum activist Ric O’Barry as he leads a covert team of filmmakers on a harrowing quest to document and stop the round up and slaughter of dolphins by Japanese fishermen.
2010 FESTIVAL 27 min. The Gulf Islands National Seashore, a collection of historical sites, beaches, and treasured islands along the Mississippi and Florida Gulf Coast, is the focus of this companion piece to Ken Burns’ series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. This film highlights some of the beauty and biodiversity along the Gulf of […]
