Entries by American Conservation Film Festival

Food, Inc.

2009 FESTIVAL 93 min. Filmmaker: Robert Kenner. Dinner will never be the same again. This exposé lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, and exposes the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA, and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled […]

Fresh

2009 FESTIVAL 72 min. Filmmaker: Ana Sofia Joanes. A celebration of farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Fresh’s focus on these inspiring individuals and their initiatives around the US provides the audience with actionable solutions and provides an antidote to concerns about corporate control. Fresh is indeed a […]

Hotspots

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 […]

In Place Out of Time

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.

In the Company of Moose

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 […]