Lori Joyce and Candice Orlando/ 2012/ 88 min/ Social Justice
FILM DESCRIPTION: A film that captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth, weaves together poetry, music, art and stunning scenery to create a hopeful and collective story that inspires us to work for the earth.
Lori Joyce and Candice Orlando/ 2012/ 88 min/ Social Justice
FILM DESCRIPTION: A film that captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth, weaves together poetry, music, art and stunning scenery to create a hopeful and collective story that inspires us to work for the earth.
Amy Browne/ 2014/ 102 min/ Health & Environment
FILM DESCRIPTION: What if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth, musician, psychiatrist, and folk dancer Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial while battling lymphoma. The spirited Clark and his partner Jane, boldly facing his mortality, embrace the planning of a spiritually meaningful funeral and join with a compassionate local cemetarian to use green burial to save a North Carolina woods from being clear-cut.
Evan Abramson & Carmen Elsa/ 2011/ 23 min/ Water
FILM DESCRIPTION: The award-winning short film by Evan Abramson & Carmen Elsa Lopez brings to life the daily struggles experienced by millions of residents living in western Kenya without easy access to safe drinking water. But the film is also about hope. It showcases a unique new public health program providing the region with sustainable access to clean water. The film chronicles the program start-up, when nearly 880,000 water filters were distributed for free to almost all homes in the region. It shows how this program’s unique carbon financing model ensures sustainability at no cost to residents, governmental agencies or donor groups.
Amy Miller/ 2012/ 90 min/ Health & Environment
FILM DESCRIPTION: From indigenous rain forest dwellers having their way of life completely threatened, to dozens of Campesinos assassinated, to the livelihood of waste pickers at landfills taken away, THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and brings us up close to projects working through the United Nations, Kyoto Protocol designed Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature asks the fundamental questions “What happens when we manipulate markets to solve the climate crisis? Who stands to gain and who stands to suffer?”
Kip Andersen/ 2014/ 91 min/ Wildlife
FILM DESCRIPTION: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it
Andrew Hasse/ 2012/ 55 min/ Food & Agriculture
FILM DESCRIPTION: Edible City is a fun, fast-paced journey through the Local Good food movement that's taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Introducing a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system, Edible City digs into their unique perspectives and transformative work, finding hopeful solutions to monumental problems.
Jared Flesher/ 2013/ 53 min/ Wildlife
FILM DESCRIPTION: Field Biologist is the story of 22-year-old Tyler Christensen, a talented but underemployed high school graduate from New Jersey still trying to figure out what to do with his life. Tyler’s great love is being outside, chasing birds and studying wildlife. One day he decides—brushing aside his lack of a college degree or scientific credentials—to drop everything and travel to Costa Rica to start doing his own conservation-oriented research on birds in the tropics.
