The Final Frontier
2008 FESTIVAL 3 min. Student animator Colin Bombard delivers this thought provoking animation of robots set in a far way time and land. [Student Filmmaker]
Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
The Lord God Bird
2008 FESTIVAL 90 min. The ivory-billed woodpecker had been presumed extinct for decades. Then came the report in spring of 2005 that the ivory-billed woodpecker had been discovered deep in the swamps of Arkansas. The rarest of rare birds, the ivory-bill is so spectacular that according to folk legend those who see it spontaneously cry […]
Understory
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]
Waste = Food
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 […]
Where do Children Play?
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.
Zoo Vets
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.
A Woman Among Wolves
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.
Aeon
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.
Against the Current
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.
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
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 […]
