2013 Films

Program includes FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS, I WISH I WENT TO ECUADOR, AMAZONIA, SCAREDY SQUIRREL, & ALL IN THE WORLD

Celebrates the life of a smart, friendly, determined, transcendent being from the other world of the sea who appeared among us like a promise out of the blue, proving that the greatest secrets in life are still to be discovered...

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

Today, more than half of all Americans eat some type of organic food. Yet most people don’t have a clue what it means. When “organic” became a brand, everything changed – the movement and the label grew apart...

In this special evening, Plympton presents two new animations, Summer Bummer and a restoration of the 1921 The Flying House, as well as a sneak peek at an upcoming project. He also screens a selection of his classic shorts and discusses his oblique, off-beat style...

Focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves...

Shown with DELICIOUS PEACE GROWS IN A UGANDAN COFFEE BEAN

Elephant memories become palpable while life size photographs reveal the individuals behind the collective and shapeless face of the species. Shot and edited over the course of four years, the film explores the lives of individual captive elephants in Burma, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka...

The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called “sky walkers” because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the city...

Partnering with a Fair Trade U.S. roaster in the lingering wake of the Idi Amin regime of terror and intolerance, farmers’ standard of living is improving, peace is flourishing, and their messages of peace and fair wages are spreading to their coffee customers in the U.S...

Shown with DYING GREEN

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

When the nuclear accident at Chernobyl happens, a young couple, Anya and Piotr, finds that their wedding day turns into a day of disaster. When news arrives of an accident at the nuclear power plant, Piotr, a firefighter, is summoned away from his nuptials. Soon rain begins to fall — black rain — and the disaster’s full dimension starts to percolate into the consciousness of the people...