Kaitlin Whitman
2010 Films
Directed by: Tristan Bayer & Daniel Hinerfeld
Date: 3/22/10 6:00 pm
Venue: AAAS
Co-presented by: NRDC
***U.S. PREMIERE***
Produced by: James Byrne
Date: 3/24/10 7:00 pm
Venue: National Geographic Society
AFRICA'S LOST EDEN
It was known as “the place where Noah left his Ark”: 4,000 square kilometers of lush floodplains in central Mozambique, packed with wild animals...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Kalle Holmberg
Date: 3/20/10 5:00 pm
Venue: Embassy of Finland
AGE OF IRON, THE (RAUTA-AIKA) - Parts 1 & 2
The Finnish national epic, Kalevala, forms the basis of this four-part film, set in the magnificent landscape of Finland...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Kalle Holmberg
Date: 3/27/10 5:00 pm
Venue: Embassy of Finland
AGE OF IRON, THE (RAUTA-AIKA) - Parts 3 & 4
The Finnish national epic, Kalevala, forms the basis of this four-part film, set in the magnificent landscape of Finland...
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Directed by: Franny Armstrong
Date: 3/24/10 7:00 pm
Co-presented by: Worldwatch Institute
Venue: Georgetown University
AGE OF STUPID, THE
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Peter Brosens & Jessica Hope Woodworth
Date: 3/23/10 7:15 pm
Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center
Produced by: James Donald
Date: 3/28/10 1:00 pm
Venue: National Wildlife Visitor Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
AMERICAN EAGLE
Everything about them is big. They are one of nature’s largest raptors, with wings that can span eight feet, and nests that can weigh up to a ton...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Beth Gage & George Gage
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Johns Hopkins SAIS
AMERICAN OUTRAGE
Feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have endured five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in which more than a thousand of their horses and cattle were confiscated...
Shown with AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN and BATTLE FOR THE XINGU as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Margot Benacerraf
Date: 3/20/10 2:00 pm & 4:00 pm
Venue: National Gallery of Art
Newly restored 35mm print!
***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Chaim Litewski
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Johns Hopkins SAIS
AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN
In less than twenty years, nearly two billion people could face water shortages...
Shown with BATTLE FOR THE XINGU and AMERICAN OUTRAGE as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
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Directed by: Suzan Beraza
Date: 3/28/10 2:45 pm
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science
Special Work-in-Progress Screening
***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Iara Lee
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Johns Hopkins SAIS
BATTLE FOR THE XINGU
The Xingu, a tributary of the Amazon, is home to over 10,000 indigenous people who rely on the river for survival...
Shown with AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN and AMERICAN OUTRAGE as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Jessica Oreck
Date: 3/25/10 8:00 pm
Venue: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Co-presented by: AFI Los Angeles & Japan Information & Culture Center
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
In Japan, where space and ergonomic design are prized above all else, it is only fitting that its people would become captivated by nature’s most efficient invention in space, design and function – the insect...
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Directed by: David Conover
Date: 3/21/10 2:45 pm
Venue: National Museum of Natural History
Special Work-in-Progress Screening
BEHOLD THE EARTH
Once upon a time, we lived in close proximity to what biologist E. O. Wilson and many others refer to as the Creation or, alternatively, as the natural world...
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Directed by: Dara Padwo-Audick
Date: 3/28/10 4:30 pm
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science
Special Work-in-Progress Screening
BHUTAN: A KINGDOM OF HAPPINESS
There’s a lot at stake for Druk Yul, better known in the west as Bhutan. Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, this tiny country has grand ambitions...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Boris Claret & Jan Sitta
Date: 3/25/10 7:00 pm
Venue: American University
Co-presented by: Center for Environmental Filmmaking, Solar Household Energy, Inc. & Solar Cookers InternationalBON APPETIT MONSIEUR SOLEIL
Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Food & Agriculture Film Series.
Shown with SOLAR ENERGY FOR LIFE
***BONUS SCREENING DAY***
Date: 4/25/10
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science
Bonus Screening Day
The Festival has scheduled an additional screening day for some of the most popular films of the 2010 Festival and some new discoveries...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Cathy Henkel
Narrated by: Hugh Jackman
Date: 3/18/10 12:00 noon
Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
BURNING SEASON, THE
Every year there is a burning season in Indonesia. Areas of rainforest the size of Denmark are cut down and set alight by farmers and corporations to develop palm oil plantations...
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***WORLD PREMIERE***
Directed by: Ann Dunsky
Date: 3/21/10 3:15 pm
Venue: National Museum of American History
BUTTERFLIES & BULLDOZERS: DAVID SCHOOLEY, FRED SMITH AND THE FIGHT FOR SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN
For fifty years, many people have fought to protect San Bruno Mountain, a rare fragment of wild San Francisco...
Shown with GREEN FIRE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ALDO LEOPOLD
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