Balancing Point
2006 FESTIVAL 6 min. Producer/Director Danny Brown brings us to his contemplative dreamlike world of “reverse” rock sculpture. Watch the magic as gravity is reversed in this interesting short film.
Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
Bye Bye Buyat
2006 FESTIVAL 31 min. This powerful film is the environmental cautionary tale of the Buyat Pante people of Indonesia, who are forced to relocate to escape local mine pollution. The film presents a unique international perspective on the issues affecting indigenous peoples. Warning: Due to the graphic nature of some resultant health problems this film […]
Cabollo Loco on Easter Island
2006 FESTIVAL 26 min. What is killing the horses on Easter Island? Join veterinarian Johnathan Arzt on a mesmerizing journey of discovery to the most remote inhabited island on Earth. Using science, Dr. Arzt investigates this strange epidemic, initially thought to be mad cow disease, affecting the free-ranging horses that this economy depends upon for […]
Chasing Coyotes
2006 FESTIVAL 14 min. Dr. Robert Crabtree has researched Yellowstone’s coyotes since 1989, both before and after the wolf reintroduction. His non-profit organization, The Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, hires recent biology graduates who wish to obtain field experience. This film follows these young biologists as they enter the wild world of America’s coyotes in some […]
Crazy Like a Fox
2006 FESTIVAL 99 min. When big-city speculators cheat him out of his Virginia farm, old time gentleman farmer Nat Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek. The pride of possession from so many generations on the same soil simply makes it impossible for him to move. Nat […]
Darwin’s Nightmare
2006 FESTIVAL 107 min. Some time in the 1960’s, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. The new fish multiplied quickly and soon its white fillets were exported […]
Drowning New Orleans
2006 FESTIVAL 52 min. On August 28, America woke up to a shocking surprise. Katrina, a moderate “category one” hurricane that recently skirted Florida, had blown up overnight into a massive hurricane. Now it was a “category five” and it was headed straight for New Orleans. After three sleepless days watching live news coverage, Larry […]
Edens Lost and Found Los Angeles: Dreams of a Different City
2006 FESTIVAL 57 min. L.A. made smog and pollution into household words. No longer. Its citizens have said enough, and are putting their backs — as well as their words — into the effort to recover the Eden’s they have lost. Hosted by Actor Jimmy Smits this film guides the viewer through community based efforts […]
Europe: Taming the Wild
2006 FESTIVAL 49 min. Originally released in Europe this program explores human development of the vast European wilderness. Walking the viewer though the evolution of nomadic tribes to agrarian societies to high culture, Taming the wild provides an old word insight to the origins of western and American land ethic.
Garpenfargle
2006 FESTIVAL 5 min. A film that any dog owner can relate to! Watch from a dog’s eye view what mischief Hobbes gets himself into when his owner is gone for the day. This lighthearted film will make you wonder what’s going through in dog’s mind when you tell him to behave.
