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ENVIRONMENT
CHASING CHASING WATER WATER
WATER
Directed by Pete McBride
Breathtaking photography tells the story of
the Colorado River, which flowed to the
sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90
miles short of the Sea of Cortez.
After spending a decade working abroad
as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete
McBride, decided to focus on something
closer to his home and his heart: the
Colorado River which cuts through his
backyard. Taking nearly three years,
McBride followed the river source to sea
on a personal journey to see exactly
where the river goes and what becomes of
the irrigation water that flows across his
family's cattle ranch in central Colorado
after it returns to the creek.
Recruiting hisfather, John, as his personal
pilot McBride chose an aerial vantage to
capture a unique and fresh view of the
Colorado River Basin. He also partnered
with Jon Waterman, an author who stayed
stream level to paddle the entire length of
the river.
This short film takes the viewer on a 1,500
mile adventure downstream, from
mountains and cities and through canyons
and across shrinking reservoirs. For 6
million years the Colorado River flowed to
the sea. Today it runs dry some 90 miles
shy of its historic terminus at the Sea of
Cortez.
This visual journey is both revealing and
alarming as it highlights the state of the
river and the Southwest's drying future.
Featuring the photography of Pete
McBride and music by Explosions In The
Sky, This Will Destroy You, Jesse Cook,
and Ludovico Einaudi.
Review
� "Stunningly beautiful and hauntingly
disturbing...a testament to our
unquenchable thirst." - Dr. J. Val
Klump, Assoc. Dean for Research,
Great Lakes WATER Institute
Awards
� Best Short Mountain Film, Banff
Mountain Film Festival
� Most Inspiring Story, 5Point Film
Festival
� Best Environmental Documentary,
Mountainfilm Festival, Telluride
� Water for All Award, CMS Vatavaran
Film Festival, Delhi
� Best Documentary, Clearwater Film
Festival
� Audience Award, Short Film,
EcoFocus Film Festival, Athens, GA
� Best Environmental Film, Frozen Film
Festival, San Francisco
� Best Cinematography & Best of
Category, Montana CINE
International Film Festival
� Best Land to Sea Film, Waimea
Ocean Film Festival
� Best Environmental Documentary,
Mountain Film Awards, Mammoth, CA
� Adventure through Activism Award,
Adventure Film Festival, Boulder
Item no. : BF01110822
Format : DVD
Duration : 18 minutes
Audience : Grades 7-12, College,
Adult
Copyright : 2011
StdBkNo : 1937772330
Price : USD 175.00
DREAMING DREAMING OF OF A A TREE
TREE
HOUSE: HOUSE: FREI FREI OTTO'S
OTTO'S
ECOLOGICAL ECOLOGICAL PROJECT PROJECT IIN
I N
BERLIN
BERLIN
By Beate Lendt
DREAMING OF A TREE HOUSE is a film
about the pioneering community-building
project of the world-famous architect Frei
Otto in Berlin, called the Okohaus—an
experimental, ecological, customized
housing project in the city center.
Including interviews with Frei Otto,
Christine Kanstinger-Otto, Hermann
Kendel, Yona Friedman, Anne Lacaton &
Jean-Philippe Vassal, and other involved
architects, planners, and inhabitants, the
film shows the development and the
philosophy of the project, which was built
for the International Building Exhibition in
Berlin 1987 (IBA).
The "Ecohouse" project hosts a number of
experimental solutions to adaptable home
building and personalization. The film
explores the ideas that motivated the
project, its underlying sustainability
themes, and asks how these ambitions
were realized.
DREAMING OF A TREE HOUSE
ultimately asks: What can we learn from
the Okohaus? How can its design, building
process, and the experience of its 20-plus
year occupation inform ecological and
design issues currently relevant to our
society?
Award
� World Premiere, 2011 Architecture
Film Festival (Rotterdam)
Item no. : NN03100836
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 85 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 398.00
FIERCE FIERCE GREEN GREEN GREEN FIRE, FIRE, AA:
AA
:
THE THE BATTLE BATTLE FOR FOR A A LIV LIVING LIV ING
PLANET
PLANET
Directed by Mark Kitchell
The documentary of record on the
environmental movement.
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a
Living Planet is the first big-picture
exploration of the environmental
movement - grassroots and global
activism spanning fifty years from
conservation to climate change. From
halting dams in the Grand Canyon to
battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love
Canal; from Greenpeace saving the
whales to Chico Mendes and the
rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from
climate change to the promise of
transforming our civilization... the film tells
vivid stories about people fighting - and
succeeding - against enormous odds.
The film is divided into five "acts".
Act 1 focuses on the conservation
movement of the `60s, David Brower and
the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the
Grand Canyon.
Act 2 looks at the new environmental
movement of the `70s with its emphasis on
pollution, focusing on the battle led by Lois
Gibbs over Love Canal.
Act 3 is about alternative ecology strands
and the main story is Greenpeace's
campaign to save the whales.
Act 4 explores global resource issues and
crises of the `80s, focusing on the struggle
to save the Amazon led by Chico Mendes
and the rubber tappers.
Act 5 concerns climate change.
Reviews
� "The most thorough, expansive, and
inclusive documentary film on the rise
of modern environmentalism." - Paul
Sutter, Associate Professor of History,
University of Colorado
� "The material is vast, and it's an
incredibly dynamic film. It's shaping
up to be the documentary of record on
the environmental movement. I think
it'll be hugely successful." - Cara
Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute
Documentary Film Program
� "The film left me emotionally drained
and profoundly hopeful." - Bruce
Barcott, OnEarth Magazine
Item no. : TE02560823
Format : DVD
Duration : 114 minutes
Copyright : 2012
StdBkNo : 1937772411
Price : USD 295.00
SHATTERED SHATTERED SKY
SKY
Directed by Steve Dorst, Dan Evans
The story of how America led the world to
solve the ozone crisis. Will we dare to do
the same with climate change?
Thirty years ago, scientists reported a hole
in the ozone layer "the size of North
America." The culprits were man-made
chemicals called CFCs, which were
prevalent in billions of dollars worth of
refrigeration, air conditioning and other
products that had revolutionized America's
way of life.
With doctors forecasting skyrocketing
cancer rates if changes weren't made, the
stakes were literally "life as we know it."
Yet companies remained bitterly opposed
to changing their products. Politicians
were slow to act. Like with today's CO2
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