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11th Hour, The
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(USA, 2007, 95 min)
Category: Energy-Climate Change-Resources
By: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, The 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment; how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. The film features dialogues with experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey, and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who present the facts and discuss the most important issues that face our planet.
Schedule for 11th Hour, The
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
02:40 PM at the Nevada Theater (map)
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Adventure Film! Adventure!!!
(USA/Africa, 2007, 13 min)
Category: Adventure
By: Thayer Walker
Give a guy a camera and who knows what can happen. This film is a parody of the ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro by Serac Adventure Film’s adventure film school. No glaciers were harmed in the making of this film.
Schedule for Adventure Film! Adventure!!!
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
09:50 AM at the Veterans Hall (map)
In person: Thayer Walker
Aerial Rock
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(USA, 1990, 3 min)
Category: Adventure
By: Jennifer Carville
Climbing can be as beautiful as ballet and as glorious as the music of Vivaldi. Local business owner and legendary climber, Mike Carville makes the moves look easy in this film shot by his sister, Jennifer.
Schedule for Aerial Rock
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
03:20 PM at the Veterans Hall (map)
In person: Jennifer Carville
After The Storm
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(USA, 2006, 4 min)
Category: Community Activism
By: Linda McLean, David Bourne
Can the devastating power of Hurricane Katrina also share with us the power of compassion and community? In this short film, individuals express their thoughts about the need for our nation to reconsider our priorities.
Schedule for After The Storm
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
09:40 AM at the Oddfellows Hall (map)
Against The Current
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(USA, 2007, 19 min)
Category: Rivers & Restoration
By: Kathy Kasic
Growing towns and cities, sustained drought, the quest for national energy independence, and climate change are all putting new pressures on dwindling water supplies. In the face of such water demand, fish and wildlife are often left out. And there is one simple fact: fish need water. Told through the wisdom of four people, two ranchers, a biologist, and an environmental lawyer, this film brings together unexpected partners restoring a river.
Awards: Silver Telly, Bronze Telly
Schedule for Against The Current
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
01:15 PM at the Oddfellows Hall (map)
In person: Kathy Kasic
Alphabet Soup
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(Canada, 2005, 12 min)
Category: Oceans
By: Ian Connacher
You'd think that the middle of the Pacific Ocean is pure and clean. But in an expedition to sample an area four times the size of Texas - called the Eastern Garbage Patch - scientists learn where the world’s plastics end up.
Schedule for Alphabet Soup
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
10:45 AM at the Veterans Hall (map)
Amran’s Film: What Makes Me Happy
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(Ethiopia, 2005, 13 min)
Category: Children’s Films
By: Aida Ashenafi
Amran lives in a small village outside the town of Jijiga in Ethiopia. Sometimes she goes to market with her father. After a busy day at the market, it is time for Amran and her father to begin the long and tiring journey home. At first Amran goes on ahead, leading the donkey. But soon the camel begins to limp and Amran’s father becomes worried. What is wrong with the camel?
Schedule for Amran’s Film: What Makes Me Happy
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
09:55 AM at the Nevada Theater (map)
Antarctica ... the End?
(USA, 2006, 10 min)
Category: Energy-Climate Change-Resources
By: Sam Lowe-Anker
Seen through the eyes and voice of a 13-year-old boy, Antarctica looks at how climate change and human impact is affecting the frozen continent.
Awards: Best Youth Environmental Film, Telluride MountainFilm, 2006
Schedule for Antarctica ... the End?
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
11:30 AM at the Nevada Theater (map)
In person: Sam Lowe-Anker
Awakening The Bear River
(USA, 2007, 25 min)
Category: Rivers & Restoration
By: Tom & Debra Weistar
The pressures and demands on the Sierra Nevada are reaching an all-time high. And water politics in California is a complicated affair -—one that most people, even those living right in the midst of it—do not fully understand. Through the lens of a camera and the lens of young minds, complex issues are explored through interviews with key players and through the words of the students themselves. What emerges is a picture of how we live on the earth, our relationship to ‘resources’ (historically and presently), and what ‘sustainability’ might mean in this era. FREE SHOWING AT ACTIVIST CENTER I
Schedule for Awakening The Bear River
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
04:00 PM at the Activism Center I (map)
In person: Debra and Tom Weistar and student filmmakers
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Back to Life: The Iron Goat Trail
(USA, 2005, 28 min)
Category: Community Activism
By: John de Graaf
Follow the path through an intriguing story about the creation of a unique Washington state rail-to-trail project. Hundreds of volunteers spent thousands of hours on the project over a 15-year period. The film showcases the natural beauty of the heart of the Cascades, tells of one of the worst train disasters in the US, and documents how it is possible to have a good time while building a first-class interpretive trail. Narrated by travel expert Rick Steves.
Schedule for Back to Life: The Iron Goat Trail
Sunday Morning & Afternoon
10:15 AM at the Masons Hall (map)
Badgered
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(UK, 2005, 7 min)
Category: Animation
By: Sharon Colman
The tale of a grumpy badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.
Awards: Best Short Animation Oscar nomination, 2006; Best Short Student Animation Oscar nomination, 2005; Best Film on Mountain Environment, Banff Mountain Film Festival, plus more!
Schedule for Badgered
Saturday Evening
07:15 PM at the Oddfellows Hall (map)
In person: Sharon Colman
Bags, The
(UK, 2007, 1 min)
Category: Community Activism
By: Haydn Butler
In the UK, 88% of household rubbish is disposed of in a landfill, increasing the pressure on landfill sites and releasing dangerous gasses into the air.
Schedule for Bags, The
Saturday Evening
07:15 PM at the Masons Hall (map)
Black Mesa Trust
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(USA, 2007, 4 min)
Category: Native Americans
By: Channel G
For 30 years Peabody Coal Company has been withdrawing water from Arizona’s aquifers for a coal slurry line to California, leading to devastating effects on the environment, cultures, and well-being of the Hopi and Diné (Navajo) living on Black Mesa. Wells, washes, and ancient springs are beginning to run dry. The centuries-old cultures of the Hopi and Diné that depend so heavily upon the pristine aquifer for religious, cultural and day-to-day uses, are suffering.
Schedule for Black Mesa Trust
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
01:15 PM at the Masons Hall (map)
In person: Michael Schoenfeld
Bugs of the Underworld
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(USA, 2007, 35 min)
Category: Wildlife
By: Ralph and Lisa Cutter
Aquatic insects live secretive lives beneath the quicksilver mirror. Their transformation into a winged adult, particularly when viewed from underwater, is a marvel of grace and beauty. Upon viewing Bugs of the Underworld the universal statement among flyfishers is, “I didn’t know that!” These insects are far more than simply trout bait; they profoundly influence the aquatic ecosystem and their presence is an accurate measurement of stream health and water quality.
Schedule for Bugs of the Underworld
Saturday Morning & Afternoon
11:15 AM at the Great Hall, Miners Foundry (map)
In person: Ralph and Lisa Cutter
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California Wilderness Coalition
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(USA, 2007, 6 min)
Category: Forestry/Land Preservation
By: Channel G
California’s ever-growing population now totals over 36 million residents. This population boom confronts California’s wild lands with a myriad of development threats. Power lines, drilling, logging, mining, and road construction destroy tens of thousands of acres of California every year. We must protect what is left of California’s frontier in order to strike a balance.
Schedule for California Wilderness Coalition
Friday Evening
07:15 PM at the Veterans Hall (map)


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