2009 FESTIVAL 17 min. Filmmaker: Jennifer Grace. This children’s film produced for the Smithsonian National Zoo examines the impact that chemical contaminants play in worldwide amphibian declines and some simple things you can start doing to reduce your chemical footprint today. [Student Filmmaker]
2009 FESTIVAL 50 min. Producers: John and Sara Shier. A year in the life of Yellowstone’s grizzlies. Grizzly follows two grizzly bears, documenting their triumphs and failures, and providing a rare glimpse of life in one of America’s great wildernesses.
2009 FESTIVAL 90 min. Filmmaker: Yann Arthus Bertrand. Mesmerizing aerial views provide a visually astonishing portrait of the Earth. Director Yann Arthus-Bertrand brilliantly and dreamily captures the miraculous linkages within delicate eco-systems.
2009 FESTIVAL 109 min. Director: Michael Tobias. This documentary shows what it takes–in the trenches–to negotiate a sustainable future for life on Earth. Based on the book, “Hotspots Revisited: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Eco-regions” by renowned conservationist Russell A. Mittermeier and colleagues, this film provides a behind-the-scenes look at some conservation success […]
2009 FESTIVAL 5 min. Filmmaker: Randy Boyum. In two minutes this short animated film will tell you everything you need to know about surviving an encounter with a bear.
2009 FESTIVAL 45 min. Director: Erin Hudson. A poetic portrait of a fourth generation New Mexican who sold his backhoe and picked up a camera in pursuit of a photographic quest, and new meaning in his life. This film takes a gentle and multilayered look at an individual’s eternal connection to community, landscape, and memory.
2009 FESTIVAL 57 min. Filmmaker: Jonathan VanBallenberghe. Biologist Vic VanBallenberghe has spent more time living with wild moose than anyone in the world. His son, filmmaker Jonathan VanBallenberghe, follows him over the course of a year in Denali National Park, Alaska, showing the passion behind Vic’s research as well as the growing intimacy of their […]
2009 FESTIVAL 20 min. Filmmaker: Ed Watkins. What if all the complexity of our climate, our ecosystems, and even life itself could be grounded in a single law of nature? What if we already discovered it? Join Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan on a journey from cups of tea to tornadoes, and steam engines […]
2009 FESTIVAL 49 min. Filmmaker: Sandy Crichton. Wildlife photographer George Chance spent the 1970s following and studying the New Zealand Falcon; now some thirty years later he is suffering from ill health and going blind. Filmmaker Sandy Crichton gets ever closer to a remarkable wild population of falcons as he attempts to realize George’s dream […]
2009 FESTIVAL 58 min. Filmmakers: Karen and Ralf Meyer. Sharing key themes and characters with the book, Where the Wild Things Were, by Shepherdstown author William Stolzenburg, this film explores the vital role that North America’s top predators play in our ecosystem and the scientists, ranchers and others who bucked convention to recognize their importance.
