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2008 Films


11TH HOUR, THE

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...

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A LIFE: THE STORY OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON

Directed 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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AGUAS CON EL AGUA

***U.S. PREMIERE*** 

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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ALL IN THIS TEA

***D.C. PREMIERE*** 

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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ALPS, THE

***D.C. PREMIERE***

Produced by: MacGillivray Freeman Films

Presented by: Holcim and Switzerland Tourism

Date: 3/12/08 7:00 pm

Venue: National Museum of Natural History


ALPS, THE

Writer and mountaineer John Harlin III has come to Switzerland for the expedition of his lifetime: an attempt to climb the much-feared North Face of the Eiger forty years after the same mountain claimed the life of his father...

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AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE

***WORLD PREMIERE***

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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ANIMALS IN LOVE (LES ANIMAUX AMOUREUX)

***U.S. PREMIERE***

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...

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ANSEL ADAMS

Directed 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...

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ANTÔNIA

***D.C. PREMIERE***

Directed by: Tata Amaral

Date: 3/17/08 7:30 pm

Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center

 

ANTÔNIA

In Vila Brasilandia, on the outskirts of São Paulo, four talented young women—friends since childhood—struggle to fulfill their dream of living off of their music...

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ARCTIC TALE

Directed 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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ARE THERE STILL ANY SHEPHERDS? (AINDA HA PASTORES?)

***U.S. PREMIERE*** 

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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ARID LANDS

***D.C. PREMIERE*** 

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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AUSANGATE

***D.C. PREMIERE*** 

Directed by: Andrea Heckman and Tad Fettig

Date: 3/22/08 10:30 am & 2:30 pm

Venue: The Textile Museum

AUSANGATE

The Quechua people of southeastern Peru live above the tree line at over 14,000 feet in a stark, almost brutal environment. To the locals, the landscape has great significance: the lakes, mountains, and even the rocks are holy...

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BATTLE TO SAVE THE TIGER

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... 

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BIG COUNTRY, THE

Directed 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...

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BIG DREAMERS

Directed 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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BRUNO MANSER - LAKI-PENAN

***U.S. PREMIERE***

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...

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BUILDING THE FUTURE - ENERGY

Directed 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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"We humans are a dangerously invasive species. We have a lot to learn and a lot to do if we are to save nature, including ourselves. And we are a visual species. Well-made films can help teach us what we need to know. EFF is a crucial resource, a way to get the right signals to the right brains before it’s too late." - Neil Patterson, filmmaker Darwin's Natural Heir

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