Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
2008 FESTIVAL 12 min. Discover the largest bears in North America as they explore and dominate this pristine Alaskan wilderness.
Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
Message in a Bottle
2008 FESTIVAL 1 min. Part of the Urban Visionaries film festival, this short examines the choices between littering and survival.
Peace with Seals
2008 FESTIVAL 60 min. Meet Gaston the Seal, the “most famous animal in Europe.” Gaston is the entry point to examining Europe’s wildlife losses and increasingly decimated waterways. An original, humorous, and very European look at how humans and wildlife interact (Brief Nudity).
Plight of the Puffin
2008 FESTIVAL 14 min. Producer Maria Frostic traveled to Iceland to document the Puffin and their struggle to survive on islands they have lived on for thousands of years. With the reality of rising water temperatures the puffins and the people who have come to rely on these birds face a new challenge: how to […]
Pollinators in Peril
2008 FESTIVAL 47 min. Pollinators like bees, birds, bats and insects are essential to the world’s food supply, but many species are in threatened with extinction. Producer Rhett Turner teams up with actor Peter Fonda on a to travel the world in search of the most endangered pollinators and show us what we can do […]
Red Gold
2008 FESTIVAL 54 min. Imagine a pristine Alaskan watershed with the most productive Sockeye salmon rivers in the world, teeming with millions of native fish pushing up river to spawn. Now imagine the world’s largest open pit gold and copper mine at their headwaters. Produced by Ben Knight and Travis Rummel of Felt Soul Media […]
Seed Hunter
2008 FESTIVAL 46 min. One of the first casualties of global warming will be food crops. Australian scientist Ken Street and his team of ‘gene detectives’ are hunting for plant genes that could help our food withstand the impact of 21st century global warming. Seed Hunter is a remarkable journey from the drought ravaged farms […]
Sweetness & Light
2008 FESTIVAL 30 min. Montana graduate student Stefanie Misztal hones her story telling skills as she interviews family and friends to explore the elusive relationship between science, religion and nature. [Student Filmmaker]
The American Chestnut
2008 FESTIVAL. A hundred years ago, one out of four trees in the Appalachian forests was an American chestnut. Some towered up to 100 feet tall and had diameters greater than 10 feet. The magnificent trees dominated the forested hills and mountains over much of the eastern U.S. Then came the lethal chestnut blight. By […]
The Artisanal Fisher
2008 FESTIVAL 13 min. Over 200 million small-scale fishermen feed 1.5 billion humans. Is this lifestyle sustainable?
