Entries by American Conservation Film Festival

Strange Days on Planet Earth: Invaders

2005 FESTIVAL 55 min. National Geographic’sStrange Days on Planet Earthis a series that premiered on PBS this year — a “detective story exploring the fate of our planet.”; In Invaders, we learn how a predator species has dramatic effects on its own environment—or on another continent! One amazing story focuses on New Orleans, where the challenge of […]

Strange Days on Planet Earth: The One Degree Factor

2005 FESTIVAL 55 min. From the Arctic north to the tropical isles of the Caribbean, scientists are documenting a series of perplexing phenomena many believe is linked to climate change. In The One Degree Factor, we learn about unsettling transformations sweeping across the globe, and how scientists are assembling a new picture of our Earth, where seemingly […]

The Buffalo War

2005 FESTIVAL 57 min. The American bison has stood at the center of a controversy that spans more than 150 years of American history. In the American West, environmental groups, Native Americans, ranchers, and state and federal authorities are pulling in different directions, each with its own ideas for preserving the last free-roaming herds of […]

The Future of Food

2005 FESTIVAL 89 min. The Future of Food, by ACFF guest filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia, offers an in-depth investigation into genetic engineering of food crops, gene patents, and food labeling — together comprising a revolution” in the way U.S. industries stock grocery-store shelves.The Future of Food provides a good keynote for the festival’s theme, “Conservation’s Front Lines.” […]

The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film

2005 FESTIVAL 120 min. The Greatest Good is a professionally produced high-definition documentary by and about the U.S. Forest Service. Countering “unchecked exploitation”; of natural resources, the Service’s visionary founders successfully enshrined the values of their still-young conservation movement with policies and practice of the U.S. government. By the film’s own admission, it’s been a rocky […]