Entries by American Conservation Film Festival

Just Water

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]

Meltdown in Tibet

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 […]

One With Life

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 […]

Plastic Bag

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.