Entries by American Conservation Film Festival

Carpa Diem

2008 FESTIVAL 2 min. An apartment.  Bedtime.  A little girl lovingly watches her fish swimming in the aquarium, while her younger brother is playing in the bathroom, listening to music and letting water run into the sink.  A waste of water that could turn tragic. . . a brilliant short from Italy’s Sergio Cannella.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]