Part of the Student Short Environmental Film Festival Program WINNER: THE BALLAD OF HOLLAND ISLAND HOUSE (USA, 2015, 4 min.)В World PremiereВ The true story of the last house on…
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Part of the Farming for the Future: Enduring Traditions, Innovative Practices Shorts Programs The story of Potomac Vegetable Farms, an organic farm in Virginia. Directed by Aditi Desai….
Part of theВ Water and OilВ Shorts Program One of the most important land ecosystems for mitigating the effects of climate change, the Amazon moderates weather patterns locally and globally,…
Made at a critical time in the history of the species, the film shows how, after finally achieving success at captive breeding, the Chinese scientists involved with this…
Presented with Antarctic & Southern Ocean Coalition and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Armed with low-tech gear and high-minded notions that penguin populations hold the key to human survival,…
Part of the Film as a Tool for Peace and Climate Change Shorts Program Four scientists describe the impact of climate change on wildlife and fragile ecosystems, and…
The One Ocean Media Foundation helped organize, and film, a unique learn-to-swim project on the remote Maldivian island of Eydafushi. For the first time, forty-eight third-graders and eighteen…
Following fairy-tales and personal memories like a trail of breadcrumbs, this film descends into the haunted woodlands where the fairy tales of childhood persist within the subconscious. This…
Jean Hill, a fiery octogenarian, cares deeply about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Adriana Cohen: mother, model and celebrity publicist-turned-pundit, unequivocally defends individual freedoms. When Jean tries to…
In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain…
Presented with the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development The journey of a man (The Walker) in a land of chaos and destruction, to the “earthly paradise,” now…
My Name is Salt – Teaser from Leafbird Films on Vimeo. Presented with the Embassy of Switzerland The desert extends endlessly with neither a tree nor blade of…
Mission of Mermaids: a love letter to the ocean from Susan Rockefeller on Vimeo. Since I was a small child I have admired and loved the ocean; its…
Special Sneak Preview The nature of play, risk and hazard are explored in this documentary, set in The Land, a Welsh “adventure” playground. At The Land children climb…
A Selection from the 2014 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival Writer and activist Edward Abbeyв’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels helped to inspire the nascent environmental movement…
Presented with the Embassy of Spain Costa da Morte sits on the uttermost west of Galicia, Spain in an area distinguished by rocks, mist and storms. Its dramatic…
We may want to act for the better, but cultures imbued with consumerism hamper change. Matt Rott escaped to a small Pacific Island to overcome his Western habits…
Special Encore Screening Narrated and hosted by Matt Damon, the 13th episode of “Journey to Planet Earth” investigates one of the most critical issues of our time: the…
Part of the DC Public Library ProgramВ (Suggested Ages: 2-5) What happens if sharks disappear? FINconceivable explores the importance of sharks to our world and what could happen if…
Presented with the NationalВ Archives and National Gallery of Art Immigrant European stone workers perilously labored in the granite quarries near Barre, Vermont in the early twentieth century. Within…