China: A Memoir of Our Future
2008 FESTIVAL 12 min. A group of students from Eastern Connecticut State University travel to China to discover its economy, culture, history and environment. In the process they discover the unexpected.
Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
Colour Talks
2008 FESTIVAL 8 min. In a teeming social world of camouflage and display, marine animals talk in a language we do not yet understand In a groundbreaking step toward learning to listen, Colour Talks unravels the mystery of funderwater color, and brings a revolutionary understanding of the language of fish.
Dope Spider
2008 FESTIVAL. Natural history meets pyschedelia in this hilarious short. (some PG-13 Language)
Everything’s Cool
2008 FESTIVAL 89 min. Now that America is finally grasping the reality of global warming, a group of global warming messengers are on a high-stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil […]
Fish and Cow: A Story of Restoring the Upper Big Hole Valley
2008 FESTIVAL. Student Filmmakers Geoff Stephens and Rick Smith tell the tale of heritage, cooperation, success, and restoration in the Upper Big Hole Valley watershed, a place where people, cows and trout can live in harmony. [Student Filmmakers]
FLOW: For the Love of Water
2008 FESTIVAL. Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: the world water crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a […]
In the Valley of the Wolves
2008 FESTIVAL 53 min. In 1995, the first gray wolves were transported from Alberta, Canada to Yellowstone National Park to repopulate the sprawling landscape with the species, absent for more than 70 years. The following year a second wave of wolves were brought to the park from British Columbia, Canada. Five of them were released […]
King Corn
2008 FESTIVAL 90 min. King Corn is the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Best friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis move from the East Coast to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified […]
Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
2008 FESTIVAL 12 min. Discover the largest bears in North America as they explore and dominate this pristine Alaskan wilderness.
Message in a Bottle
2008 FESTIVAL 1 min. Part of the Urban Visionaries film festival, this short examines the choices between littering and survival.
