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Washington D.C. Premiere
HARMONY

2013 Winner of the Environmental Film Festival’s fourth annual Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film

For three decades, The Prince of Wales has worked side-by-side with a dynamic array of people to address the global environmental crisis... 

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MARCH
21
7:15 PM
Directed by: Stuart Sender
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


U.S. Premiere
HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH

The ancient Maya believed our present world would end and a new cycle would arise after 5125 years. What lies behind the myth of the Mayan calendar...

Shown with Living Waters, Ocean Life. 

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MARCH
22
7:30 PM
Directed by: Frauke Sandig and Eric Black
Venue: Gala Hispanic Theater


World Premiere
HIDDEN RIVERS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA

Rivers Lost, Found and Turned-Around and shown as part of the Rivers Program

Biodiversity. It’s in the rivers of the Amazon, the jungles of Borneo, the coral reefs of Belize… oh, and the creeks of Tennessee...

Shown with THE LOST FISH and WILLAMETTE FUTURES. 

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MARCH
24
4:00 PM
Directed by: Jeremy Monroe
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


Family Friendly
HIPPOS: NATURE'S WILD FEAST

Witness a high-tech natural history event that presents the most comprehensive illustration to date of nature's food chain in action...

Shown with the other Winners from the 2012 Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, England SAVING RHINO PHILA and HUMMINGBIRDS: JEWELLED MESSENGERS. 

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MARCH
24
2:00 PM
Directed by: Jonny Young
Venue: National Museum of Natural History


Washington D.C. Premiere
HOT TUNA

The Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the largest, fastest, most prized fish in the sea, is now being fished to the brink of extinction...

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MARCH
19
12 NOON
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Venue: National Geographic Society


World Premiere
HOT WATER

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Join filmmakers Lizabeth Rogers and Kevin Flint on a journey through the American West to expose uranium mining and our atomic legacy for what it really is...

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MARCH
12
7:00 PM
Directed by: Lizabeth Rogers and Kevin Flint
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


Washington D.C. Premiere
HOW I BECAME AN ELEPHANT

At the age of 14, Juliette is on a mission to save elephants. After single-handedly raising funds, she embarks on a life-altering journey...

Shown with GO GANGES! 

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MARCH
13
5:30 PM
Directed by:

Tim Gorski and Synthian Sharp

Venue: Gallaudet University


Family Friendly
HUMMINGBIRDS: JEWELED MESSENGERS

Hummingbirds have become the greatest aerial acrobats on earth. They can hover, fly backwards and even fly backwards and upside down simultaneously...

Shown with the other Winners from the 2012 Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, England SAVING RHINO PHILA and HIPPOS: NATURE’S WILD FEAST. 

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MARCH
24
1:00 PM
Directed by: Paul Reddish
Venue: National Museum of Natural History


Washington D.C. Premiere
IDLE THREAT

In 2006, one man began a quest to make the world a better place for everyone to live and show that if you try hard enough, one person really can make a difference... 

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MARCH
17
12 NOON
Directed by: George Pakenham
Venue: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, The


Washington D.C. Premiere World Premiere
In Search of Solutions

A Shorts Program including GENESIS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY SEBASTIÃO SALGADO, THE SECRET OF TREES, GROW DAT YOUTH FARM, SONG OF THE SPINDLE, and WHERE WE LIVE: THE CHANGING FACE OF CLIMATE ACTIVISM.

Shown with CityStories Series.

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MARCH
17
1:00 PM
Directed by: Various
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


Washington D.C. Premiere
INNSIDE STORY, THE: THE GREEN RIVER FROM THE ALPS

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Central Europe’s largest tributary of the Danube, the 323-mile Inn River flows through Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol and Bavaria... 

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MARCH
19
7:30 PM
Directed by: Franz Hafner
Venue: Embassy of Austria


Washington D.C. Premiere
INORI

Inori is a picturesque and isolated mountain village in Japan, where only a few elderly residents remain... 

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MARCH
13
6:30 PM
Directed by: Pedro González-Rubio
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan


World Premiere
INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA: HEALTHY PEOPLE, HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT

A Focus on Environmental Solutions in Africa

Along the northern coast of Tanzania, a series of innovative development projects organized by community members, the Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership, the BALANCED Project and USAID are combining conservation efforts...

Shown with TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE CENRTRAL ALBERTINE RIFT TRANSFRONTIER PROTECTED AREA NETWORK. 

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MARCH
19
12 NOON
Directed by: Sean Peoples
Presented by: Environmental Change and Security Program at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


Family Friendly
JANE'S JOURNEY

It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact on animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall...

Shown with BENY, BACK TO THE WILD and FOR THE BEST AND FOR THE ONION. 

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MARCH
17
12 NOON
Directed by: Lorenz Knauer
Presented with: Earth Matters
Venue: National Museum of Natural History


Washington D.C. Premiere
JISEUL

Recreating little-known tragic events that occurred on Jeju Island off the southern coast of Korea, this powerful film tells a harrowing story... 

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MARCH
24
2:00 PM
Directed by: O Muel
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art


John Huston in Africa

Featuring THE AFRICAN QUEEN, THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN, and WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART. 

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MARCH
16
11:00 AM
Directed by: John Huston
Presented with: Earth Matters
Venue: National Museum of American History


JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF THE LENA, A

Selection from Matsalu Nature Film Festival, Estonia and shown as part of the Rivers Program

The Lena is the greatest river in Russia. At its center, the Lena is 19 miles wide, while its lower delta has 150 branches...

Shown with OLD MAN AND THE MOOSE and THE RETURN OF THE MUSK OX. 

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MARCH
17
6:30 PM
Directed by: Vasily Sarana
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


Washington D.C. Premiere
KEEP ON ROLLING - THE DREAM OF THE AUTOMOBILE (SOBRE RUEDAS- EL SUENO AUTOMOVIL)

The advent of the automobile changed the world and its inhabitants as no other means of transport had ever done before... 

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MARCH
19
6:30 PM
Directed by: Óscar Clemente
Presented by: Embassy of Spain
Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center


U.S. Premiere Family Friendly
KING'S NECKLACE, THE (LE COLLIER DU MAKOKO)

A Gabonese tribal queen, played by popular singer Patience Dabany, hopes to recover a sacred necklace...

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MARCH
13
7:00 PM
Directed by: Henri Joseph Koumba-Bididi
Presented with: The Embassy of the Republic of Gabon and Earth Matters
Venue: E Street Cinema


Washington D.C. Premiere
KING'S RIVER, THE

River Shorts and shown as part of the Rivers Program

Examining both sides of a current dispute that may have a critical, long lasting effect on a local environment...

Shown with EEL • WATER • ROCK • MAN, BANGLADESH: LAND OF RIVERS, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US, and THE WATER TOWER.

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MARCH
24
2:00 PM
Directed by: Matthew Pickett
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


LA SOURCE

Presented in celebration of World Water Day

Each day, the villagers of a small, rural community called La Source in Haiti must choose between enduring a long, treacherous walk to retrieve clean water or drinking contaminated water from a nearby river...

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MARCH
22
7:00 PM
Directed by: Patrick Shen
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


Washington D.C. Premiere
LAND OF HOPE, THE

In the prefecture of Nagashima (the epicenter of Japan’s nuclear traumas), two families are torn apart when an earthquake causes a nuclear meltdown... 

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MARCH
24
3:30 PM
Directed by: Shion Sono
Venue: AFI Silver Theatre


LAST ICE MERCHANT, THE

For the last five decades, Baltazar Ushca has made a living harvesting glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador...

Shown with LONESOME GEORGE AND THE BATTLE FOR THE GALAPAGOS

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MARCH
13
7:00 PM
Directed by: Sandy Patch
Presented by: Embassy of Ecuador
Venue: Artisphere


LAST MOUNTAIN, THE

The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant, Massey Energy, which wants to explode the mountain... 

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MARCH
14
7:30 PM
Directed by: Bill Haney
Venue: Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church


Washington D.C. Premiere
LAST OCEAN, THE

Oceans at Risk

Do we fish the last ocean or do we protect it? The most pristine marine ecosystem on Earth, the Ross Sea...

Shown with OCEAN FRONTIERS: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA IN OCEAN STEWARDSHIP and PLANET OCEAN. 

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MARCH
16
12 NOON
Directed by: Peter Young
Venue: National Museum of Natural History


Washington D.C. Premiere
LEVIATHAN

Set inside one of the world’s most dangerous professions, the commercial fishing industry, this film takes to the high seas of the North Atlantic – Herman Melville territory – to capture this harsh, unforgiving world in all of its visceral, haunting, cosmic detail... 

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MARCH
23
6:15 PM
Directed by: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
Venue: AFI Silver Theatre


Life and Times of ADRIAN COWELL, The

A Memorial Tribute to the Award-winning documentary filmmaker of the Amazon.

Adrian Cowell’s  “Decade of Destruction” film series reveals the pressures that led to the greatest destruction of tropical forest ever...

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MARCH
22
7:00 PM
Directed by: Adrian Cowell
Venue: American University


Washington D.C. Premiere U.S. Premiere
Living Waters, Ocean Life

Program includes JULIO SOLIS, A MOVESHAKE STORY, THE GROWTH OF LAKE ENRIQUILLO: ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC IMPLICATIONS and OUR BACKS TO THE SEA

Shown with HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH.

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MARCH
22
6:15 PM
Presented with: The Collaboration of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development
Venue: Gala Hispanic Theater


U.S. Premiere
LONESOME GEORGE AND THE BATTLE FOR THE GALAPAGOS

Officially the loneliest animal on the planet until his death in June 2012, Lonesome George was the very last Pinta Island giant tortoise...

Shown with THE LAST ICE MERCHANT

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MARCH
13
7:00 PM
Directed by: Jonathan Clay
Presented by: Embassy of Ecuador
Venue: Artisphere


Washington D.C. Premiere
LOST BIRD PROJECT, THE

Sculptor Todd McGrain believes that forgetting is a type of cultural extinction. He aims to keep memories alive for five extinct North American birds... 

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MARCH
15
7:00 PM
Directed by: Deborah Dickson
Presented with: Audubon Maryland-Washington, D.C.
Venue: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, The


World Premiere
LOST FISH, THE: FIGHTING TO SAVE PACIFIC LAMPREYS

Rivers Lost, Found and Turned-Around and shown as part of the Rivers Program

An ancient fish native to the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific lamprey has been an important subsistence fishery for Northwest American Indian tribes for thousands of years...

Shown with HIDDEN RIVERS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA and WILLAMETTE FUTURES. 

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MARCH
24
4:00 PM
Directed by: Jeremy Monroe
Venue: Carnegie Institution for Science


Washington D.C. Premiere
LOST RIVERS

Shown as part of the Rivers Program

Once flowing through nearly every developed city in the world, rivers provided the infrastructure upon which modern metropolises were built... 

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MARCH
12
6:00 PM
Directed by: Caroline Bâcle
Venue: Embassy of Canada
MARCH
13
6:00 PM
Venue: Embassy of Canada


Washington D.C. Premiere
LUNARCY!

Shuttles entertainingly from the ridiculous to the sublime as the film introduces us to an unforgettable group of characters whose years-long obsession with the moon has reached truly galactic proportions...

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MARCH
18
7:00 PM
Directed by: Simon Ennis
Venue: E Street Cinema

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