This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching ‘archive’ footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance?

WEST COAST PREMIERE Is breadmaking an art form? Breathe into this silent celebration of the alchemy of bread making. Hands pounding, mixing, kneading and stretching, reveal the choreographed rhythms and movements of bread making.

WORLD PREMIERE Young filmmaker Alison (who won the Best College Film Award here in 2008) returns with the latest from her adventures around the globe. This time we join the ambitious 20-something with her mom and dad in their search for South American answers on saving the world

Native American Retrospective Session Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have always grazed their livestock outside their ranch in Nevada, a part of the Shoshone land from the1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. In 1974, the US sued the sisters for trespassing on US Public Land. Why would the US spend millions prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert?

Explore the continent where climate change is an obvious reality. Meet some of the leading scientists living in Antarctica as they study the dramatically changing wildlife and polar ecosystem. Are penguins really committing suicide?

CA PREMIERE You may hug a tree, but would you climb one? Join tree lovers & climbers Brian and Will as they attempt to find Oregon’s largest Sitka Spruce trees. Through their eyes, from both ground and canopy views, we discover the breathtaking beauty of these beautiful giants.

After 30 years of growing “Green Gold,” crowning a Mrs. Asparagus Queen, “veggie” disco dancing and writing Super Stalk comic book heroes, the people of Oceana County, Michigan are thrown into the global economy. Will the Asparagus Capitol of the World be destroyed by a War on Drugs policy?

Twenty years ago, the director traveled to Tonasket, WA, where he interviewed a healing gathering of back-to-the-land hippies. Forty years after Woodstock, he tracked down the same people and their children to find out what became of them and their search for environmental utopias.

WORK IN PROGRESS: An average guy makes a simple resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Little does he know that this small decision will change his life completely. He comes to the conclusion that our consumptive use of plastic has finally caught up to us, and looks at what we can do about it.

In a world of Big Business Bears... one little bear dares to be bare.

Don’t let plastic bags take over ... help stop the pollution.

CA PREMIERE In California’s Inner Coastal Range lies the proposed Berryessa-Snow Mtn. National Conservation Area. At its heart is nearly 500,000 acres of public land, which is largely undeveloped yet very close to the large metropolitan areas of Sacramento and San Francisco. A campaign to create the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area is underway.

Last year at Wild & Scenic, accomplished Telluride filmmakers Beth and George Gage met activist Tim DeChristopher. Since then the couple has been following Tim’s story, with a feature film in the works.

WEST COAST PREMIERE Our KING CORN boys are back! Curt and Ian have returned to Iowa with a new mission: to investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream. In a journey that extends from the American heartland to the Gulf of Mexico, the guys trade their combine for a canoe and set out to see the big world their little acre of corn has touched

Native American Retrospective Session For 30 years, Peabody Coal Co. has been withdrawing water from Arizona’s aquifers for a coal slurry line, leading to devastating effects on the environment, cultures, and well-being of the Hopi and Diné (Navajo) peoples living on Black Mesa.