2013 Films

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... 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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

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...

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! 

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. 

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... 

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.

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... 

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

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. 

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. 

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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. 

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... 

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...

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.

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

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

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. 

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... 

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...