This short documentary is about Georgena Terry, founder of Terry Bicycles. Terry revolutionized the women’s biking industry by creating a frame specific to a woman’s body. This is the story of how she got her start and the challenges within the women’s biking movement.
Amanda Zackem | 2012 | 6 min. | USA
Early one winter morning, the rock band Los Ginger Ninjas—Nevada County locals—set out from home, destination southern Mexico. They had no van and no gigs, hauling their instruments, camping gear and 1000-watt human-powered sound system on cargo bicycles. Trusting a benevolent force they called the ‘golden bubble,’ the 7-month journey became a test of the [...]
Sergio Morkin | 2012 | 78 min. | Mexico
https://vimeo.com/35927275 I love being on a bike. It helps me feel free. I get it from my dad. After 382 days spent riding through the streets of Montreal, being sometimes quite cold, sometimes quite hot – and sometimes quite scared, I dedicate this movie to him.
Guillaume Blanchet | 2012 | 3 min. | Canada
Throughout winter, relentless cold winds blow across Siberia and pick up moisture from the Sea of Japan. When this wet and frigid air pushes up against the mountains of Hokkaido, mind numbing amounts of snow fall on Japan’s northern most island, providing intrepid skiers and snowboarders an incredible playground to explore. With the rounding of [...]
Ben Knight, Travis Rummel, Nick Waggoner | 2012 | 6 min. | USA
An Arctic crime caper about a true American folk hero. In 1972, Wild Bill Cooper led a ragtag crew of adventurers on a snowmobile expedition over the top of the world. Their goal was to reach Moscow. But Wild Bill’s journey took an unexpected turn.
Mike Scholtz, Dean Vogtman | 2012 | 60 min. | USA
“A Changing Delta” Official Trailer from Andrew Quinn on Vimeo. Left for dead after decades of neglect, the terminus of the Colorado River in Northern Mexico was once a vibrant wetland ecosystem the size of Rhode Island. “A Changing Delta” chronicles the stories, issues, and people of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico, and what [...]
Marine Ventures Foundation | 2012 | 25 min. | USA
A FASCINATING JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
: Two friends on a quest to travel the ultimate river by any means possible. Emmy nominated and multiple-award-winning filmmakers Josh Thomas and JJ Kelley have made a name for themselves traveling across Alaska’s vast and remote stretches of wilderness. In a fish out of water tale, Josh and JJ [...]
J.J. Kelley, Josh Thomas, Ben Gottfried | 2012 | 83 min. | USA/India
The MoveShake film series presents the story of Julio Solis, a sea turtle conservationist in Puerto San Carlos, Mexico. In his youth, Julio was a poacher of sea turtles until a life changing mentor shifted his perspective about his relationship with the ocean. Julio now works to protect sea turtles by running a nonprofit dedicated [...]
Alexandria Bombach | 2012 | 10 min. | Mexico
The Last Reef 3D: Cities Beneath The Sea, is an uplifting giant screen journey exploring the beauty and mysteries of the world’s reef ecosystems: a distant yet parallel world, with living cities undeniably connected to our own human communities. Vanishing at five times the rate of rain forests, the world’s coral reefs are under siege. [...]
Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas | 2012 | 39 min. | USA
Let Our Rivers Flow portrays the history and present plight of Maryland’s key eastern shore rivers and the role of local Riverkeepers, interacting with the community, fighting to restore and protect these natural resources. The film is narrated by local writer and historian Tom Horton, is filled with music written and recorded by local musicians, [...]
Tim Junkin, Sandy Cannon-Brown | 2012 | 26 min. | USA
A claymation film created from over 350 photos, Malama i ke Kai reveals threats to our ocean such as marine debris and destructive fishing practices and explains what we can all do to help. It was created by four 8th grade students from Maui, Hawaii using still photographs, claymation, and other mixed media.
Jacob Harris, Kailey Kiborn, Kayana Kamoku, Kelvin Bio | 2012 | 3 min. | USA
Susan Rockefeller’s latest and most personal documentary, Mission of Mermaids, is the representation of the award winning filmmaker, activist, and conservationist’s love for our ocean. Using the archetype of the mermaid, the film presents a poetic ode to the sea as well as a plea for its protection With the mermaid as our guide, it’s [...]
Susan Rockefeller | 2012 | 15 min. | USA
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.
Jeff Litton | 2012 | 3 min. | USA
Barefoot Wine proudly presents One Beach, a film that tells the personal stories of people who are using creativity and innovation to help keep the world’s beaches “barefoot friendly.” Directed by renowned surf filmmaker Jason Baffa and produced by Farm League, the film profiles six passionate people who are working to help fix the global [...]
Jason Baffa, Farm League | 2011 | 25 min. | USA
This is the story of the repercussions of human negligence juxtaposed with the incredible power of human compassion. An entangled humpback whale, left for dead; a fishing net, her anvil. Estimated at 250 kilos this net had cut halfway through the left side of her tail. Between two dives, our film crew heard a radio [...]
Céline Cousteau | 2012 | 6 min. | USA
Soul Migration follows the story of Chris Scammon, descendant of Captain Charles Melville Scammon, the 19th century whaler responsible for the near-extinction of the California gray whale. Students and teachers from Finding the Good Traveling Semester lead Chris and his wife, Janet Cohen, co-founder of Wild and Scenic, to the gray whale’s calving grounds in [...]
Debra Weistar, Tom Weistar | 2012 | 25 min. | USA
This Film is about the life cycle of the Southeast Pacific humpback whales, between their feeding grounds in the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic , and their mating grounds in the Tropic. It was shot on super 16 mm in the pacific coasts of [...]
Andres Pineda | 2011 | 10 min. | Colombia
Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting is a well-worn saying when it comes to water politics, but in the Colorado River Basin, where the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to flow, some think fighting may be the only way left to reclaim this valuable resource. Robert Redford’s voice [...]
Mark Decena, Robert Redford | 2012 | 56 min. | USA
High school students are concerned about the effects of plastic bags on life in the ocean and on CO2 emissions. They dress up as plastic bag monsters and act to successfully ban plastic bags in their city of Santa Monica.
Lynne Cherry | 6 min. | USA
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 [...]
Mark Kitchell | 2012 | 100 min. | USA
The First 70 is a story of Californians banding together to enact change and develop solutions in the face of a glaring oversight in California’s new state budget. After $22 million is cut from parks, the Department of Parks and Recreation is forced to close a quarter of their 279 state parks, leaving citizens and [...]
Jarratt Moody, Cory Brown, Lauren Valentino | 2012 | 30 min. | USA
There is an undeniable magic in alpenglow– the final seconds of a day’s light that give mountains impossible texture and life before falling into shadow. In the endless spring hours of Haines, Alaska, light is as bountiful as snow. But to capture the best of both, that singularly lit moment that turns powder into frozen [...]
Nick Waggoner, Ben Sturgelewski | 2011 | 6 min. | USA
“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 [...]
Amy Marquis, Sarah Menzies, Allie Bombach | 2011 | 9 min. | USA
In 2008, a baby girl is born in Bhopal, India, the site of the worst industrial disaster in history: the Union Carbide gas leak. What should be a celebration is a tragedy. She has severe birth defects due to the contaminated water, but the American company responsible still refuses to make amends 27 years after [...]
Van Maximilian Carlson, Kirk Palayan | 2011 | 84 min. | USA
Lead pollution is a serious problem in many parks and public spaces in Worcester’s inner-city neighborhoods. Motivated by this knowledge, in 2009 Needle joined the Toxic Soil Busters, a youth-run cooperative that offers residents soil testing, remediation, and lead-free landscaping services. He was [...]
Dominic Howes, Joel Weber | 2012 | 4 min. | USA
According to Human Rights Watch, the Rwandan genocide resulted in the death of at least 800,000 people. In a matter of months in early 1994, Hutus slaughtered the majority of the country’s Tutsi population, despite the fact that the two groups had long lived side-by-side. However, amid these terrible acts of violence, incredible stories of [...]
Iara Lee | 2010 | 3 min. | Rwanda
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. [...]
Cutter Hodierne | 2011 | 15 min. | USA
In Organic We Trust – Documentary – Teaser #1 from Pasture Pictures on Vimeo. “In Organic We Trust” is an eye-opening documentary that reveals the true meaning of “organic”. When corporations went into the business and “organic” became a brand, the philosophy and the label grew apart. But there’s hope for organic and for us! [...]
Kip Pastor | 2012 | 81 min. | USA
INOCENTE is an inspiring coming-of-age story of a 15-year old girl in California. Though homeless and undocumented, she refuses to give up on her dream of being an artist, proving that her past does not define her – her dreams do.
Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine | 2012 | 40 min. | USA
THE LONGEST SUN – TRAILER from Patrick Smith on Vimeo. The Longest Sun is a narrative short film inspired by the mythology of the Tewa peoples of northern NM, and is told entirely in the endangered language of Tewa (less than 500 native speakers remain). A blend of fantasy, mystery, and romance, The Longest Sun [...]
Patrick Smith | 2012 | 16 min. | USA
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 [...]
Deborah Koons Garcia | 2012 | 104 min. | USA