Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 5, 2009 under Ann Arbor Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, Los Angeles Film festival, Nashville Film Festival (NaFF), New Orleans Film Festival, Outfest:Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Phoenix Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, The, True/False Film Festival, Tucson Jewish Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival, Wild & Scenic® Environmental Film Festival, Women's Film Festival | 
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded $450,000 to 24 U.S. film festivals for the 2010 calendar year, Festival Grants Committee Chair Buffy Shutt announced on Wednesday.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 4, 2009 under Wild & Scenic® Environmental Film Festival |
After being postponed last year due to Hurricane Gustav, the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Tour heads to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 5 at Independence Park Theatre. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana lineup includes:
- “Gimme Green.” A humorous look at how Americans love their lawns, and the ultimate cost - environmentally and financially - of this symbol of the American home.
- “Carpe Diem,” A short film that examines the problem of wasting water, as seen through the eyes of two children and an aquarium fish.
- “Oil & Water Project.” Two kayakers take a road trip from Alaska to Argentina without using any petroleum fuel. Their converted fire truck runs on everything from pig lard to palm oil as they spend nine months looking for whitewater rivers.
- “The Good Fight.” The life of Martin Littin, 90, an environmental activist who began his conservation efforts in 1934. He worked for years to keep dams from being built in the Grand Canyon and to preserve Giant Sequoias from logging.
- “Water Loving Doggies.” The title says it all in this 3-minute short.
- “Story of Stuff.” A mostly serious, and sometimes funny, look at the cost of a consumer-driven culture, from the environmental costs of obtaining raw resources to the cost of disposing of products once they’ve become outdated.
- “Protecting New Orleans.” John Day, LSU professor emeritus, talks about the restoration of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands in a post-Hurricane Katrina landscape as a way to help protect New Orleans against future hurricanes.
- “Fridays at the Farm.” A family decides to join a community organic farm in an effort to reconnect with where their food comes from. [via]
The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival 2009 Tour Dates
February 7
Kentucky Waterways Alliance
Louisville, KY
www.kwalliance.org
February 10
River Alliance of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
www.wisconsinrivers.org
February 12
Trail Creek Outfitters
Glen Mills, PA
www.trailcreekoutfitters.com
February 21
Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
Bear Valley, CA
www.sierrafilmfest.org
www.epfw.org
February 26
Indiana Forest Alliance
Bloomington, IN
www.indianaforestalliance.org
February 26
Cascadia Wildlands Project
Eugene, OR
www.cascwild.org
February 27
Alaska Marine Conservation Council
Kodiak, AK
www.akmarine.org
February 27-28
St. Croix Falls Library * The Big Read
St. Croix Falls, WI
www.festivaltheatre.org
February 28
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Durango, CO
www.greatoldbroads.org
February 28
Sierra Nevada Alliance
South Lake Tahoe, CA
www.sierranevadaalliance.org
March 4-5
Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
Atlanta, GA
www.ucriverkeeper.org
March 4
Organization for the Assabet River
Maynard, MA
www.assabetriver.org
March 5
Louisiana Environmental Action Network
Baton Rouge, LA
www.leanweb.org
March 11-12
Summit Land Conservancy
Park City, UT
www.summitlandconservancy.org
March 12
Adventure’s Edge
Arcata, CA
www.adventuresedge.com
March 13
Clear Water Outdoor
Lake Geneva, WI
www.clearwateroutdoor.com
March 14
Pro Peninsula
San Diego, CA
www.propeninsula.org
March 22
Green Mountain Conservation Group
Effingham, NH
www.gmcg.org
March 24
Tennessee Clean Water Network
Knoxville, TN
www.tcwn.org
March 28
Western Colorado Congress
Grand Junction, NH
www.wccongress.org
April 4
Land Trust of the Treasure Valley
Boise, ID
www.lttv.org
April 10-11
Reef Relief
Key West, FL
www.reefrelief.org
April 17
Truckee Tahoe Earth Day
Truckee, CA
www.tahoetruckeeearthday.org
April 22
Backcountry Outfitters
Traverse City, MI
www.backcountrytc.com
April 23
Wyoming Wilderness Association
Sheridan, WY
www.wildwyo.org
April 21 & 23
Save The Bay
Westerly, RI
www.savebay.org
April 25
“e” inc.
Boston, MA
www.e-action.us
April 25
Jax Outdoor Gear
Fort Collins, CO
www.jaxmercantile.com
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 22, 2009 under Wild & Scenic® Environmental Film Festival |
Join Kentucky Waterways Alliance (KWA) when they host the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival On Tour at the Clifton Center, Louisville, Kentucky on February 7 at 8 p.m. The festival will be emceed by two-time Emmy nominee Dave Shuffett, host and producer of Kentucky Education Television’s Kentucky Life. An opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. with food and drink provided by Ramsi’s Café on the World, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and a wine tasting courtesy of Liquor Barn.
Wild & Scenic On Tour brings together a selection of environmental films from the annual festival held the second week of January in Nevada City, CA. “The films tell a story about our planet, highlighting issues, providing solutions and giving a call to action,” says Tour Manager, Susie Sutphin. “Their collective energy empowers communities to initiate conversations that can bring about compromise and collaborative efforts that positively impact our wild places.”
The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival was started by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in 2003. SYRCL is sharing their success as an environmental group with others organizations to bring the festival to over 90 communities nationwide. It is building a network of grassroots organizations connected by a common goal of using film to inspire activism. The festival’s namesake is in celebration of achieving Wild & Scenic status for 39 miles of the South Yuba River in 1999.
The film festival brings a community together. “Film is an artistic language that crosses political and social boundaries and offers a place for diverse perspectives to intertwine and mingle,” said environmental activist Lesley Adams of Medford, OR. “Film is a wonderful medium with which to bring divergent interests together around universal issues and discover that we have more in common than our perceived and historical differences suggest. ”
“We’re excited to bring this national film festival to the state of Kentucky for the first time ever,” said Judy Petersen, Kentucky Waterways Alliance executive director. “The event is a great opportunity to learn more about different environmental issues important to our state while being inspired by the work of others.”
The festival film line up represents a mix of environmental issues. The feature of the night is Mountain Top Removal, directed by Michael O’Connell and produced by Gill Holland of Louisville. O’Connell points a sharp lens at the hard coal-mining practice of mountaintop removal, a process that involves clear-cutting and then removing up to 1,000 vertical feet of mountain by explosives. O’Connell will join Jerry Hardt, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth communications director, Judy Petersen, KWA, Tom FltzGerald, Kentucky Resources Council director, and other activists for a Q & A session following the film.
Hardt will be on hand to answer questions about the making of A Crime Against Creation, a short film that presents evangelical Christian leaders bearing witness to mountaintop removal and the destruction of Appalachia. Offering a profound theological rejection of this practice, the film includes testimony from eastern Kentucky residents working to protect their homes and one of the most ecologically diverse forests in the world. The film is one of eight individual stories included in the documentary Renewal about people of different faith traditions building a sustainable future.
You can also watch a group of world class whitewater kayakers travel to some of the world’s most amazing rivers in The Last Descent. These brave kayakers venture down the Marsyangdi River of Nepal, the Brahmaputra River in India, and the White Nile River in Uganda perhaps for the last time as all are threatened or are in the process of being destroyed by large scale hydroelectric projects. The film closes in California with the Tuolumne River and the growing movement to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
The festival is a natural extension of Kentucky Waterways Alliance’s work to inspire people to act on behalf of the environment. For 15 years, Kentucky Waterways Alliance has worked to protect and restore Kentucky’s waterways. With a membership base that spans the state, KWA strengthens partnerships within watersheds and communities, while working for clean water and more effective water protection at the state and national levels.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 10, 2009 under Wild & Scenic® Environmental Film Festival |
South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL)’s 7th annual Wild & Scenic® Environmental Film Festival, now the largest environmental film festival in the country, kicked off yesterday and runs through Sunday with over 120 independent documentary and short films from 18 countries. The film slate features 19 world premieres, and 13 West Coast and California premieres. The Festival continues its tradition of bringing an array of celebrated speakers-over 100 this year - and the Wild & Scenic Gala Event on Saturday night. There are also free events, including 16 free panel discussions and workshops, opening receptions and art shows throughout historic downtown Nevada City.
Highlights of the festival include:
Cost of Oil, directed by Joshua Dukes and Coulter Mitchell (USA)-World Premiere. The Alaskan Inupiat show how drilling in their nearby seas will forever alter their subsistence-living lifestyle and multiply the struggles of preserving their rich cultural history. The filmmakers will be speaking after their film and will be hosting a Premiere Party at the Bella Vita Gallery on Saturday January 10 th at 5:00 pm.
Red Gold, directed by Lauren Oakes (USA) - Northern California Premiere. The headwaters of the Kvichak and Nushagak Rivers in Alaska are home to the two largest sockeye salmon runs on the planet. And at that same spot, mining companies have proposed to extract what may prove to be the richest deposit of gold and copper in the world. Native fishermen who oppose the dam are up against mine officials who say they will build a ‘clean’ mine that will leave the salmon’s habitat untouched. Join the filmmakers and activists featured in the film for a party after the Saturday night film session. [via]