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TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: PERSPECTIVES FROM WATERTON-GLACIER INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK

Straddling the border between the United States and Canada, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is a critical ecosystem...

Shown with "TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES": PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSBOUNDARY CONSERVATION IN THE CENTRAL ALBERTINE RIFT VALLEY

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MARCH
14
12 NOON
Directed by: Cory Wilson
Presented by: Environmental Change and Security Program
Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSBOUNDARY CONSERVATION IN THE CENTRAL ALBERTINE RIFT VALLEY

This episode takes us to the Central Albertine Rift Valley in East Africa in the Great Lakes region between Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

Shown with "TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES": PERSPECTIVES FROM WATERTON-GLACIER INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK

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MARCH
14
12 NOON
Directed by: Cory Wilson
Presented by: Environmental Change and Security Program
Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


Washington D.C. Premiere
ARCTIC CLIFFHANGERS

Clambering over rugged coastal headlands and dangling into their precipitous and little-known world, an inquisitive biologist encounters an Arctic that is surprisingly colourful and teeming with life, including prolific seabirds that represent some of Canada’s most spectacular wildlife...

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MARCH
13
6:00 PM
Directed by: Stephen Smith & Julia Szucs
Venue: Embassy of Canada
MARCH
14
6:00 PM
Venue: Embassy of Canada


CHASING WATER

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Colorado native Peter McBride grew up in a ranching family that depended on the Colorado River for irrigation. His simple desire is to find out where the irrigation water of his youth went after his family used it, and how long it took the water to reach the ocean...

Shown with WATER ON THE TABLE

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MARCH
14
6:30 PM
Directed by: Peter McBride
Venue: Tenley-Friendship Library


Washington D.C. Premiere
EATRIP

This contemporary Japanese food culture documentary explores our connection to food and to each other, both as an interaction among people and between people and nature...

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MARCH
14
6:30 PM
Directed by: Yuri Nomura
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan


REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR

Follow four entrepreneurs from 2007 through the end of 2010 as they fight to bring the electric car back to the world market in the midst of a global recession...

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MARCH
14
6:30 PM
Directed by: Chris Paine
Venue: Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)


SUBMISSION (UNDERKASTELSEN)

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Distinguished Swedish film director Stefan Jarl is concerned about the “chemical society” we have been building since World War II. Back then, humans used one million tons of chemicals per year; today that figure has risen to 500 million tons. The chemical industry is the fastest growing on the planet...

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MARCH
14
6:30 PM
Directed by: Stefan Jarl
Venue: Family Health International


Washington D.C. Premiere
TO MAKE A FARM

Here are people who have decided to put their money where their mouths are, turning their environmental idealism from theory into practice as they set out to establish their own local-supply food sources using sustainable means...

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MARCH
14
6:30 PM
Directed by: Steve Suderman
Venue: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens


Washington D.C. Premiere
WATER ON THE TABLE

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

An intimate portrait of Canadian water activist Maude Barlow, considered an “international water-warrior” for her crusade to have water declared a human right...

Shown with CHASING WATER

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MARCH
14
6:30 PM
Directed by: Liz Marshall
Venue: Tenley-Friendship Library


Family Friendly
LAST REEF 3D, THE: CITIES BENEATH THE SEA

***SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING***

Embark on a global journey to discover the parallels between life under the sea and on land in this visually stunning and rhythmically explosive giant-screen film...

A 3D IMAX Film

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MARCH
14
7:00 PM
Directed by: Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas
Presented by: The Smithsonian Associates
Venue: National Museum of Natural History


Washington D.C. Premiere
RETURN TO THE AEOLIAN ISLANDS

This journey on a red-sailed tartan boat to the Aeolian Islands, also a personal memoir of filmmaker Giovanna Taviani, looks at the islands that have inspired such legendary filmmakers as Rossellini, Antonioni and the Taviani Brothers...

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MARCH
14
7:00 PM
Directed by: Giovanna Taviani
Presented with: Italian Cultural Institute
Venue: E Street Cinema


World Premiere
WAR ELEPHANTS

In Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, elephants are in crisis: years of civil war and ivory poaching have left them frightened and hostile toward humans...

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MARCH
14
7:30 PM
Directed by: Bob Poole
Venue: National Geographic Society

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