2007 FESTIVAL 56 min. Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn how their morning cup is inextricably connected to families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. The film features scientists, coffee lovers, bird lovers, and the coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are linked, economically and […]
2007 FESTIVAL 60 min. Quite possibly the most stylishly hip environmental flick ever made. The A-Bomb meets a tropical paradise in this tragic tale of the Cold War in French Polynesia. Colorful archival footage and a 1960s Euro-glamour soundtrack chronicle France’s nuclear tests in violation of the international test ban treaty. The film shows how […]
2007 FESTIVAL 80 min. Under special arrangement with Walden Media, ACFF presents this poetic children’s tale of friendship and the natural world on a young girl’s family’s farm – a world only she sees. Wilbur and his animal pals get a spectacular film treatment on NCTC’s big screen – some pig, some movie!
2007 FESTIVAL 15 min. In a breathtaking blend of animation, still photography, live action and the so-called real world, New Zealanders explore their personal connections with the environment in this era of technological and urbanized disengagement with the natural by journeying into the wilderness.
2007 FESTIVAL 22 min. Presented under special arrangement with the Smithsonian Channel, join Peter Schriemer on a “backyard safari” and discover all sorts of living things right outside your back door on this hi-definition expedition.
2007 FESTIVAL 28 min. Fourteen student filmmakers collaborate on four short tales of the environmental history of the Chesapeake Bay, north America’s largest estuary: The River, Hands on The Future, The Bay is Your Oyster, and Deep Bonds: Mattaponi. [Student Filmmakers]
2007 FESTIVAL 57 min. A spectacular journey to Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park focusing on the people who live there now through traditional skills of trapping, hunting and self-reliance, and of the people who inhabited this beautiful, but unforgiving landscape in the past. A rare view of a vanishing way of life.
2007 FESTIVAL 47 min. A cross-country road-trip odyssey following two young filmmakers, Joey Carey and JJ Beck (who were students at the time), as they motor south and west to promote alternative fuels in a vegetable-oil powered 1981 Mercedes-Benz. Along the way they meet up with the likes of actor and biodiesel entrepreneur Morgan Freeman, […]
2007 FESTIVAL 25 min. Produced in China (with subtitles). The Samage mountain range, in the highlands of northwestern Yunnan, China, is the home of the endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkey. It is the only primate known to live at such high altitude. This is the story of these rare and charismatic creatures in one of the […]
2007 FESTIVAL 60 min. Renowned adventurer, author and photographer Jon Waterman hosts this special preview of an upcoming film on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The program includes film footage, awe-inspiring stills and stories, and an inside look at making a “big nature” film.
