Nevada City Elementary, Friday Evening

Into Eternity

The world’s nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100,000 years or more. Every year, they generate another 12,000 metric tons of high-level waste. Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage [...]

Michael Madsen & Lise Lense-Møller | 2011 | 75 min. | Denmark

Naked Option, The

The Naked Option reveals the inspiring story of an organized group of Nigerian women who use the threat of stripping naked in public, a serious cultural taboo, in their deadly struggle to hold the oil companies accountable to the communities in which they operate. The women, at the risk of being raped, beaten or killed, [...]

Candace Schermerhorn - writer/producer/director | 2011 | 64 min. | USA

New Environmentalists, The Grid

Germany: Community activists respond to the Chernobyl nuclear accident by creating the country’s first successful, cooperatively owned, renewable power company. “The New Environmentalists” share a common goal – safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for justice in their communities. The film is the latest in the Mill Valley Film Group’s Emmy [...]

Will Parrinello, John Antonelli, Tom Dusenbery | 2011 | 5 min. | USA

Story of Broke: Why There’s Still Plenty of Money to Build a Better Future

The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the planet, and a country where the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working. But [...]

Free Range Studios, The Story of Stuff Project | 2011 | 8 min. | USA

Nevada City Elementary, Saturday

Eco Snapshot: Liberia

With tremendous foresight and inspirational determination of active community members and local social and environmental organizations, West African Liberia has managed to conserve an abundance of its natural environment. After two decades of civil war, Liberia is still one of the richest countries in natural resources, yet its people remain some of the poorest in [...]

Ryan Little | 2011 | 8 min. | USA

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time

Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the 20th century because his ideas are so relevant to the environmental issues of our time. He is the father of the national wilderness system, wildlife management and the science of ecological restoration. His classic book A Sand County Almanac still inspires us to see the [...]

Steve Dunsky, Dave Steinke | 2011 | 73 min. | USA

MLK Today: Martin Luther King’s Words, Neighborhood Voices

Twenty-six community members in Eugene, Oregon give new voice to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who’s message continues to be relevant today.

Will Doolittle, Director | 2009 | 8 min. | USA

New Environmentalists, The Solution

Russia: On an island off the coast of Siberia, a dedicated activist fights to protect endangered wildlife and the region’s biodiversity from oil and gas development. “The New Environmentalists” share a common goal – safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for justice in their communities. The film is the latest in [...]

Will Parrinello, John Antonelli, Tom Dusenbery | 2011 | 5 min. | USA

Rising Tides

During the 2009 Isles of Scilly Earth Summit, Nice and Serious produced a short documentary to demonstrate how real people from Island Nations are being directly effected by the impacts of climate change. This short film steps away from the conventional scientific look at the impacts of climate change and instead, showcases a real, emotional [...]

Ben Meaker, Tom Tapper, Matt Prescott | 2009 | 3 min. | United Kingdom

Sekem Vision

Sekem Vision highlights a poignant example of a community that sprang from the soil of modern Egypt. Thirty years ago, after studying chemistry and medicine in Austria, Professor Ibrahim Abouleish turned 70 hectares of desert sand outside of Cairo into Sekem, a flourishing Biodynamic farm, thriving business, active educational center and wholesome cultural community.

Deborah Koons Garcia | 2011 | 14 min. | USA

Smokin’ Fish

Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family’s traditional fish camp. By turns tragic, bizarre, or just plain ridiculous, Smokin’ Fish, tells the story of one man’s [...]

Luke Griswold-Tergis, Cory Mann, Maureen Gosling, Jed Riffe | 2011 | 80 min. | USA

Someplace with a Mountain

Narrated by Chevy Chase, this tragic yet hopeful documentary tells the story of a small group of Island Atolls that are disappearing because of sea rise. The people who live there did not understand what was to soon be their ultimate fate. Steve Goodall came across them on his travels and when he told them [...]

Steve Goodall | 2010 | 55 min. | USA

Story of Citizens United v FEC: Why Democracy Only Works When People are in Charge

“The Story of Citizens United v. FEC: Why Democracy Only Works When People Are in Charge” explores the history of the American corporation and corporate political spending, the appropriate roles of citizens and for-profit corporations in a democracy, and the toxic impact the Citizens United decision is already having on our political process. It ends [...]

Free Range Studios, The Story of Stuff Project | 2011 | 8 min. | USA

Nevada City Elementary, Saturday Evening

California Forever

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi462462489/ This 75 minute documentary celebrates the beauty, drama and sweeping history of California State Parks, the most magnificent and diverse collection of state parks in the nation.The story of California State Parks holds the key moments within the history of conservation in America. The plot intersects with many important victories that saved much of [...]

David Vassar, Sally Kaplan | 2011 | 75 min. | USA

First 70, The

The state of California is closing a quarter of its 268 state parks due to budget cuts. This is the first time in history the state has had to close its parks. The First 70 follows the journey of three young filmmakers traveling to each of the 70 parks marked for closure. Covering thousands of [...]

Jarratt Moody and Cory Brown | 2012 | 3 min. | USA

Next Best West, The

The Next, Best West shows how our interpretation of progress has shaped the singular landscape of the American West, and through three success stories from around the region, how a new understanding of progress may be our best hope for a bright and healthy future. The West is a place of pure beauty that has [...]

Hunter Sykes, Darren Campbell, Hal Clifford | 2012 | 37 min. | USA

Mono Lake Story, The

Mono Lake is one of the most beautiful and productive lakes on the planet, yet excessive water diversions by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power threatened its ecosystem. A passionate grassroots campaign came to Mono Lake’s defense and through a monumental struggle, won its protection. The course of this historic effort transformed water [...]

Ryan Christensen, Jonah Matthewson | 2011 | 28 min. | USA

Nevada City Elementary, Sunday

AMAZONIA

http://www.amazoniamovie.com/Trailer/index.html In the eat-or-be-eaten world of the Amazon Rainforest, a little treefrog named Bounce sets out on a normal day to find a meal but quickly learns that the proverbial hunter becomes the hunted. Unable to catch his meal, Bounce is punished relentlessly by his prey to the breaking point until his chance encounter with [...]

Sam Chen | 2010 | 5 min. | USA

Among Giants

As clearcutting continues to ravage California’s coastal redwood region, Farmer, an environmental activist, decides to tree sit to defend the McKay Tract, near Eureka. AMONG GIANTS begins three years into the McKay tree-sit. Stuck on his tiny platform a hundred feet up in the ancient redwood canopy, Farmer must battle the elements and avoid isolation [...]

Chris Cresci, Sam Price-Waldman | 2011 | 14 min. | USA

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time

Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the 20th century because his ideas are so relevant to the environmental issues of our time. He is the father of the national wilderness system, wildlife management and the science of ecological restoration. His classic book A Sand County Almanac still inspires us to see the [...]

Steve Dunsky, Dave Steinke | 2011 | 73 min. | USA

GROW!

It’s not just ‘Old MacDonald’ on the farm anymore. Across the U.S. there’s a growing movement of educated young people leaving the cities to take up an agrarian life. Armed with college degrees, some are unable to find jobs in the current economic slump. Fed up with corporate America and its influence on a broken [...]

Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson | 2011 | 50 min. | USA

Heliotropes

Adapted from the poem by Brian Christian (author, THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN), HELIOTROPES offers a glance at how certain patterns repeat themselves at different levels of nature, whether we know it or not. Sunflower seeds and petals are known to follow the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical formula that makes their structure maximally efficient–but they don’t [...]

Michael Langan | 2010 | 3 min. | USA

Roots & Hollers

‘Roots & Hollers’ takes you deep inside the world of wild American ginseng. The legendary root has linked Asia to the Appalachian wilderness for centuries. Considered a cure-all, wild American roots sell for thousands of dollars in Asian markets. The film follows two budding businessmen, Jeremy Tackett and Terry Cable, as they try their luck [...]

Thomas Gorman, Patrick Kollman | 2011 | 25 min. | United States

Wolf & The Medallion, The

Journeying to an unexplored granite canyon on the border of China and Mongolia, Collins finds not only adventure with friends and the local nomads, but a moment of reflection. From that moment comes a letter home to his four year old son. This letter becomes the script for a film, as we see an intimate [...]

Jeremy Collins | 2011 | 20 min. | USA

You’ve Been Trumped

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon. At stake is one of Britain’s very last stretches of wilderness. The billionaire property developer Donald Trump has bought up hundreds of acres on the northeast coast of Scotland, best known to movie-lovers as [...]

Anthony Baxter, Richard Phinney | 2011 | 95 min. | UK