The work of passionate individuals who have documented crucial environmental problems and challenges, and the attempts of many to solve them. These films instill concern for the issues they raise, and they seed enthusiasm for change in the audience.
Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the best-selling book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, investigates ways to rapidly transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture through a change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological design. ...
26-year-old charmer Daniel Dembele is equal parts West African and European, and looking to make his mark on the world. Seizing the moment at a crossroads in his life, Daniel decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels - the first of its kind in the sun-drenched nation. Daniel's goal is...
Most of us are aware of the threat from global warming. But, what if global warming was just the tip of a much larger threat? What is virtually unknown to the public is that human activity is causing a Mass Extinction event, which is the greatest crisis that we have ever faced because it...
Filmed over four years, Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys: Adham, a bright, precocious 17 year-old, Osama, a charming impish 16 year-old, and Nabil, a shy, artistic 18 year-old who were born into the trash trade and grew up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on...
A dramatic and awe-inspiring feature documentary following three of the world’s greatest ski mountaineers to Mount St. Elias in their attempt to realize the longest ski descent of the world. Stunningly shot and set against the backdrop of Alaska’s brilliant beauty, Mount St. Elias traces...
Struggling to survive the worst drought since the dustbowl, three desperate Montana families hire a rainmaker, a retired New York cab driver, in a last ditch effort to save their farms. Like Burt Lancaster's magnetic Bill Starbuck in 1956’s, The Rainmaker, who barnstormed the windswept...
For 97 days, best friends J.J. Kelley and Josh Thomas traveled the 1,300-mile inside passage from Anchorage to Seattle during its rainiest summer in 15 years. Paddling in homemade wooden Pygmy kayaks, they captured exquisite footage of the natural beauty they encountered along North America’s...
Whoever thought that Florida, with its George H.W. Bush spawned Governor, its Girls Gone Wild and its hanging chads would be a leader in new, green urban planning? Shades of Green: Sustainable Initiatives looks at what is happening in the Sunshine State as it takes needed steps towards...
A series of inspiring short films that showcase the works of devoted people taking action to save and improve our threatened environment.
Includes the films:
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity to be bought and sold under the rules of basic capitalism? From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., Tapped is an incisive documentary that takes a blistering look at how one of Earth’s...
