2008 FESTIVAL 27 min. Student producers Jake Williams and Heather Altier document Eastern Connecticut State University students as they travel to the Mexico’s rainforest and learn first hand from working scientist about the pressures this delicate ecosystem is facing. [Student Filmmakers]
2008 FESTIVAL 51 min. Rob van Hattum’s award-winning documentary explores how companies like Nike, Herman Miller and Ford are experimenting with ways completely reinvent how products are designed, made, and used. Following the concept that “waste equals food,” a new industrial philosophy is emerging that promotes clean and sustainable production, a world where every ingredient […]
2008 FESTIVAL 60 min. An examination of how restrictive patterns of sprawl, congestion, and endless suburban development across America are impacting children’s mental and physical health and development.
2008 FESTIVAL 46 min. Smithsonian Network’s Zoo Vets goes behind the scenes of the National Zoo and shows us the lives and the work of the people who care for the sick animals. Perfect for children and the whole family.
2007 FESTIVAL 60 min. One woman’s passion for wolves leads her on a quest to study the animals in the wilds of Canada. Collecting field data, hair, DNA samples and other scientific evidence, Gudrun Pflueger has spent 6 years in search of the coast wolves of British Columbia. As seen on Smithsonian Channel.
2007 FESTIVAL 15 min. An urban Koyaniskatsi landscape documentary. Without narration, above a percussion soundtrack, this film poem is a continuous flight through the built and natural environments of Wellington, New Zealand – it is life, mechanization, routine, nature, beauty and death in a major city.
2007 FESTIVAL 19 min. Who owns the water? Along the Yellowstone River in Montana, efforts to balance the ranch economy with the natural river systems that support native trout raises questions about how people globally will manage this essential resource.
2007 FESTIVAL 58 min. The first film series to chronicle the history of one of the world’s oldest mountain ranges and diverse peoples who have inhabited them. The mountains themselves are the central character. Sissy Spacek, E.O. Wilson and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and others narrate this story of how the mountains have shaped the […]
2007 FESTIVAL 56 min. Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn how their morning cup is inextricably connected to families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. The film features scientists, coffee lovers, bird lovers, and the coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are linked, economically and […]
2007 FESTIVAL 60 min. Quite possibly the most stylishly hip environmental flick ever made. The A-Bomb meets a tropical paradise in this tragic tale of the Cold War in French Polynesia. Colorful archival footage and a 1960s Euro-glamour soundtrack chronicle France’s nuclear tests in violation of the international test ban treaty. The film shows how […]
