2013 Films

The slums of Mumbai are a long way from the Austrian Alps, but Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless score for “The Sound of Music” transcends generations and continents to inspire the children of the Bombay Chamber Orchestra...

Kiribati is a small country, a small group of low-lying islands in the central Pacific threatened by the rising tides as a result of climate change...

Shown with SOMEPLACE WITH A MOUNTAIN

20th Anniversary Environmental Film Festival Retrospective

Should Hetch Hetchy, a valley within Yosemite National Park, be dammed and flooded to form a reservoir for San Francisco? The first national controversy about America’s wilderness is told through the dramatic story of the two founders of the American conservation movement and the historic battle that drove them apart...

Shown with A PLACE IN THE LAND and WILD BY LAW: THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE CREATION OF THE WILDERNESS ACT

Water Shorts Program

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

Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea is now a notorious example of ecological calamity...

Shown with EXTINCTION, CARBON FOR WATER and MISSION FOR MERMAIDS

Water Shorts Program

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

Many families depend on wood for household energy while forest cover is dwindling, rainfall is decreasing and water contamination and population are on the rise. One company is attempting to change this by providing 900,000 free household water filters to the people of Kenya...

Shown with EXTINCTION, ARAL: THE LOST SEA and MISSION FOR MERMAIDS

Water Shorts Program

An artful story showing that the most pressing environmental issues are happening right now in our lifetime, not thousands of years from now...

Shown with MISSION OF MERMAIDS, ARAL: THE LOST SEA and CARBON FOR WATER

Water Shorts Program

Both a poetic ode to the seas and a plea for their protection, Susan Cohn Rockefeller’s latest and most personal documentary focuses on the beauty and current plight of the world’s oceans...

Shown with EXTINCTION, ARAL: THE LOST SEA and CARBON FOR WATER

A selection of water shorts, all of which are premieres and will be followed by a discussion...

Films shown include EXTINCTION, MISSION OF MERMAIDS, ARAL: THE LOST SEA and CARBON FOR WATER

20th Anniversary Environmental Film Festival Retrospective

More than just the story of a historic struggle to preserve the natural world, this film provides an invaluable overview of the roots of the environmental movement...

Shown with A PLACE IN THE LAND and THE WILDERNESS IDEA: JOHN MUIR, GIFFORD PINCHOT AND THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE FOR WILDERNESS

Where can we go? We have no mountain. Such is the plight of a special group of Pacific islanders, traditional sailors, the proud forefathers of many cultures in the tropical Pacific. They are losing their homes and crops because of sea level rise...

Shown with HUNGRY TIDE, THE

After living in Mexico City for 40 years, Antonia longs to escape the pressure and turmoil of this megalopolis and return to her hometown, a Mazahua village in the state of Mexico...

20th Anniversary Environmental Film Festival Retrospective

George Marsh, Frederick Billings and Laurence Rockefeller were three influential figures in the history of conservation. Born generations apart, with very different lives, the three were connected by a shared vision and a place...

Shown with WILD BY LAW: THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE CREATION OF THE WILDERNESS ACT and THE WILDERNESS IDEA: JOHN MUIR, GIFFORD PINCHOT AND THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE FOR WILDERNESS

Bhutan is one of the hot spots of environmental preservation on earth as 70 percent of its surface is covered with forest and it hardly contributes at all to CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, it is facing the undisputable effects of global warming as melting ice continues to weaken the walls of the Himalayan glacier lakes...

Shown with BHUTAN: LAND OF THE BLACK NECKED CRANE

Embark on an exotic journey to the small Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan high in the Himalayan Mountains...

Shown with 86 CENTIMETERS

The dramatic history and scenic beauty of California State Parks – the largest and most diverse collection of state parks in the nation...

Tar Sands Program

Exposing the environmental and human rights issues in Alberta’s toxic oil sands, the film traces the environmental and social impacts of Canadian oil on both sides of the U.S. border...

Shown with PIPE DREAMS

Shown as part of the Lucy Walker Retrospective

Capturing the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit, the film follows the renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump...

Tar Sands Program

Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water and their livelihood in what has become a controversial environmental battle. This film spotlights the David and Goliath struggle over the tar sands Keystone XL Pipeline...

Shown with DIRTY OIL

An environmental movement takes root when a new environmental law is passed, and for the first time in China’s history, ordinary citizens have the democratic right to speak out and take part in government decisions...

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

Examining the causes and consequences of the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, this deeply personal documentary investigates the corporate negligence and political corruption that have made Louisiana more of an “oil colony” than a state in our union...

Shown as part of the Lucy Walker Retrospective

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mt. Everest...