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2008 Films
Directed by: Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners
Date: 3/20/08 7:00 pm
Venue: National Geographic Society
11TH HOUR, THE
Our planet’s environmental calamity—floods, fires, droughts, heat waves, melting ice caps and endangered or extinct species—is depicted in this documentary, which dramatizes the current critical time in Earth’s evolution...
READ MOREDirected by: Charles Guggenheim
Date: 3/21/08 7:00 pm
Venue: National Portrait Gallery
A LIFE: THE STORY OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON
Our nation’s First Lady from 1963 through 1968, Lady Bird Johnson was a pioneer in the environmental movement. Her lasting legacy to the nation is celebrated in this film...
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Directed by: Ruben Silva
Date: 3/22/08 11:00 am
Venue: Carnegie Institution of Washington
AGUAS CON EL AGUA
The fun ends when two animated characters run out of water...
Shown as part of the day-long World Water Day Tribute.
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Directed by: Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht
Date: 3/16/08 2:30 pm
Venue: Avalon Theatre
ALL IN THIS TEA
World-renowned tea expert David Lee Hoffman travels to remote regions of China in search of the finest handmade teas in the world...
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Produced by: MacGillivray Freeman Films
Presented by: Holcim and Switzerland Tourism
Date: 3/12/08 7:00 pm
Venue: National Museum of Natural History
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Directed by: Larry Engel
Date: 3/19/08 7:00 pm & 8:30 pm
Venue: American University
AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE
A powerful testament to the fact that something as magnificent as the African Serengeti can exist right here in the United States in this day and age...
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Directed by: Laurent Charbonnier
Date: 3/16/08 4:00 pm
Venue: Embassy of France
ANIMALS IN LOVE (LES ANIMAUX AMOUREUX)
Every year, at every season, the entire earth resonates with the amorous sounds, songs and cries of animals...
READ MOREDirected by: Ric Burns
Date: 3/22/08 2:00 pm
Venue: The Phillips Collection
ANSEL ADAMS
An elegant, moving, and lyrical portrait of the most eloquent of American photographers...
READ MOREDirected by: Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson
Date: 3/15/08 12:00 noon
Venue: National Geographic Society
ARCTIC TALE
Set in the snow and ice at the top of the world, this real life adventure stars two very different Arctic creatures: Nanu, a polar bear, and Seela, a walrus pup...
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Directed by: Jorge Pelicano
Date: 3/18/08 6:30 pm
Venue: Georgetown University
ARE THERE STILL ANY SHEPHERDS? (AINDA HA PASTORES?)
In the Casais de Folgosinho, a lost valley in the mountains of Serra da Estrela, Portugal, live the country’s last truly genuine shepherds...
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Directed by: Grant Aaker and Josh Wallaert
Date: 3/14/08 12:00 noon
Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
ARID LANDS
Sixty years ago the Hanford nuclear site in Washington State produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki; today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history...
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Directed by: Andrea Heckman and Tad Fettig
Date: 3/22/08 10:30 am & 2:30 pm
Venue: The Textile Museum
Directed by: Mike Birkhead
Date: 3/21/08 7:00 pm
Venue: American University
BATTLE TO SAVE THE TIGER
Among the most charismatic creatures on earth and a powerful emblem of India, the Bengal tiger now stands on the brink of extinction...
READ MOREDirected by: William Wyler
Date: 3/16/08 3:00 pm
Venue: AFI Silver Theatre
BIG COUNTRY, THE
Considered one of the best Westerns ever made, this classic film spotlights rival ranchers fighting over water rights to a river located between their two ranches...
READ MOREDirected by: Camille Hardman
Date: 3/18/08 6:30 pm
Venue: Embassy of Australia
BIG DREAMERS
The wettest town in Australia, tiny Tully now has another distinction: home of the world’s largest Wellington boot...
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Directed by: Christoph Kühn
Date: 3/20/08 6:00 pm & 8:00 pm
Venue: Embassy of Switzerland
BRUNO MANSER - LAKI-PENAN
Scientist and environmentalist Bruno Manser left Switzerland in 1984 to live with the indigenous Penan jungle people in the remote rain forests of Sarawak, Borneo...
READ MOREDirected by: Nicolas Brown
Date: 3/22/08 4:00 pm
Venue: National Museum of Natural History
BUILDING THE FUTURE - ENERGY
If everything we hear about peak oil and the impending world-wide energy crisis is true, then it’s clear that we need to start doing something to move beyond oil as soon as possible. But what?
Shown with Selections from 2007 MOUNTAINFILM in Telluride.
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