At the center of Fishing Without Nets is a young man named Abdi, a fisherman and father with a baby daughter. Although Abdi is struggling to get by with very little money, he initially refuses a pirate’s offer of some quick cash, saying he wants to stay honest and teach that honesty to his children. [...]

Set in the rugged landscape of coastal Newfoundland, Canada and the spectacular ranchlands of Southern Alberta, Canada, “In The Same Boat” is an intimate portrait of one of Newfoundland’s last remaining inshore cod fishermen and the lessons he has to share with Alberta’s farmers. Through the stories of Bill Molloy and Norm Watmough we will [...]

Symphony of the Soil is a 104-minute documentary feature film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world’s most esteemed soil scientists, farmers and activists, the film portrays soil as a protagonist of our planetary story. Using a captivating mix of art [...]

Alma is the second in a trilogy of deforestation films by Patrick Rouxel. GREEN, the first in the trilogy, was screened at the Wild & Scenic FF in 2010. Alma focuses on Brazil and explores the devastating impacts of the cattle industry. Rouxel creates a cinematic essay about the global industrial economy and the speed [...]

Birders: The Central Park Effect reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration. Acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen, an idiosyncratic trombone technician, a charming fashion-averse teenager, and a bird-tour leader who’s recorded every sighting [...]

The Blue Creek Ah Pah Traditional Village Project is an effort to create a place for culture, language and salmon restoration along the banks of the Lower Klamath River. By working together to rebuild a traditional Brush Dance House, plank house and sweat lodge, members of the lower Klamath Tribes (Yurok, Karuk and Hupa) are [...]

Truly an independent film, self-taught and first-time director Katie Curran backpacked across the world to document today’s profit-centered food system — a war on the poor, especially farmers. While agribusiness reaps record wealth, protesters cry for affordable food and peasants choose between land and death. But farmers and workers are organized and fighting back, while [...]

Prie Dieu  (Pray to God in french) is one of the designation in France for the praying mantis. Welcome in a world where insects are connected to a divine power by threads until they decide to commit the sin and break this link.

La Querencia De La Tierra……the love of your place, of your land, of the landscape that has contributed to you as a person. Rooted Lands witnesses the predominantly Hispanic rural villages of Mora and San Miguel Counties in New Mexico (labeled as among the poorest communities in the United States) stand up and speak out [...]

Native carnivores balance ecosystems and keep wilderness healthy. But they are also seen as a threat to livestock, and for decades ranchers and government trappers have slaughtered them. The Wildlife Services program within U.S.D.A. kills a hundred thousand coyotes, wolves and other native carnivores annually. It is a battle against nature that is costly, brutal, [...]

In the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley of California, UC Merced student Martin Figueroa has been the driving force in a campus movement to reduce water use and improve energy efficiency. In 2011, Figueroa recruited more than 600 students in the newest University of California campus to participate in the “UC Merced Water Battle” — a [...]

Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FOOD, INC. and WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, [...]

For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo. His brothers, both raised as ice merchants, have long since retired from the mountain. This is a story of cultural change and how three brothers have adapted to it.

Ed Begley, Jr. narrates this story of the battle being fought by the people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect the region they love and to encourage saner water policies for all the people of California. This film explores the powerful forces arrayed against the Delta and the habitat, fisheries, farming, and communities that [...]

Tree planting is one of the most physically and mentally demanding jobs in Canada. Working long days alone in the baking sun of desolate clear cuts, you can expect rain storms, snow covered tents, bears, a relentless bombardment of flies, swamps and mud; that’s tree planting in Northern Alberta. The independent documentary, “78 Days”, follows [...]

Birders: The Central Park Effect reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration. Acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen, an idiosyncratic trombone technician, a charming fashion-averse teenager, and a bird-tour leader who’s recorded every sighting [...]

Experience nature directly through the outdoor adventures of children in this short film directed and edited by thirteen-year-old Anabella Funk, who gets a hands-on experience of a non-profit that teaches youth how to survive in the wild.

This documentary celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the nonexistence of limits to a child’s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and can test out the boundaries of reality. The environment allows them to explore everything through their own experience and imagination while also bringing to [...]

In 1968 Roger Smith ate a peach during a break from work. When he was finished he took out a pocketknife and began carving the peach pit into a tiny pig. 43 years later the retired meter reader and cattle rancher from Culloeka, Tennessee has carved hundreds of peach seeds into hummingbirds, stingrays, gospel choirs, [...]

In the face of rampant political corruption, Evgenia Chirikova is mobilizing her fellow Russian citizens to reroute a highway that would destroy Moscow’s old growth Khimki Forest.

What does the Ocean mean to you? Being below the waves is indescribable to someone who has never been. The Ocean is a beautiful web of interdependent relationships, as energy passes from one life form to the next. It is the perfect model for understanding our relationship to Earth, if we can listen.

The effects of cancer reach far beyond the physical symptoms of the disease. Those who survive often find themselves dealing with a profound loss of physical strength, community, identity and confidence, with few resources to turn to. On a quest to redefine themselves and defy their diagnosis, Out Living It tells the story of young [...]

Riding Bicycles, tells the journey of four cyclists who bicycle tour Baja Mexico while video blogging along their way to see the Gray Whales. Despite fears of the Drug War, the four persevere across the Baja desert to discover that life isn’t about where you go but how you got there. Riding Bicycles is self [...]

La Querencia De La Tierra……the love of your place, of your land, of the landscape that has contributed to you as a person. Rooted Lands witnesses the predominantly Hispanic rural villages of Mora and San Miguel Counties in New Mexico (labeled as among the poorest communities in the United States) stand up and speak out [...]

Taos, New Mexico is bordered by a backyard of wildlife and wild land. Both take a beating as outdoor users love the Carson National Forest to death. Some of those users recognized the damage they caused and decided to instigate a movement for resource recovery. Illegal trails close. Sanctuaries open. Habitat bounces back. Wildlife comes [...]

International audiences will delight in this nearly wordless burst of color and music that draws inspiration from film classic “The Red Balloon”. Weaving together documentary and narrative elements, “Watermelon Magic” chronicles a season on the family farm, as young Sylvie grows a patch of watermelons to sell at market.  The film employs a dynamic visual [...]

“You shouldn’t have to convince people to go to paradise,” –Shelton Johnson, Ranger, Yosemite National Park Although our national parks belong to all Americans, it’s a sad fact that very few people of color ever set foot in some of our country’s most beautiful places. Take a journey to Yosemite National Park with the Amazing [...]

Nature takes an unexpected twist in WELL-FED, a black comedy short documentary featuring four avid carnivorous plant collectors. “I used to have dreams about them almost every night… I think that they were almost beckoning me,” declares Peter, founder of “California Carnivores,” one of the largest carnivorous plant collections in the world. Damon feels enslaved [...]

Olivia loves her New York forest and the Louisiana gulf coast where her grandparents live. When the BP Oil Spill devastates the coast, Olivia creates 500 paintings of her feathered friends to raise funds for Audubon’s bird rescue.

11-year-old Felix learns about how Wangari Maathai planted thousands of trees in Africa and decides to plant 1 million trees in Germany to sequester carbon dioxide. Through his viral website he plants over 3 million trees.