A Woman Among Wolves

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2007 FESTIVAL
60 min.
One woman’s passion for wolves leads her on a quest to study the animals in the wilds of Canada. Collecting field data, hair, DNA samples and other scientific evidence, Gudrun Pflueger has spent 6 years in search of the coast wolves of British Columbia. As seen on Smithsonian Channel.

Aeon

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2007 FESTIVAL
15 min.
An urban Koyaniskatsi landscape documentary. Without narration, above a percussion soundtrack, this film poem is a continuous flight through the built and natural environments of Wellington, New Zealand – it is life, mechanization, routine, nature, beauty and death in a major city.

Against the Current

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2007 FESTIVAL
19 min.
Who owns the water? Along the Yellowstone River in Montana, efforts to balance the ranch economy with the natural river systems that support native trout raises questions about how people globally will manage this essential resource.

Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People

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2007 FESTIVAL
58 min.
The first film series to chronicle the history of one of the world’s oldest mountain ranges and diverse peoples who have inhabited them. The mountains themselves are the central character. Sissy Spacek, E.O. Wilson and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and others narrate this story of how the mountains have shaped the people and how people have shaped the mountains – the dynamic interaction of natural and human history.
[Premiere]

Bird Song and Coffee

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2007 FESTIVAL
56 min.
Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn how their morning cup is inextricably connected to families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. The film features scientists, coffee lovers, bird lovers, and the coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are linked, economically and environmentally, and how our seemingly insignificant daily routines affect our world and our ecological future. Would you like your coffee black or green?

Blowing Up Paradise

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2007 FESTIVAL
60 min.
Quite possibly the most stylishly hip environmental flick ever made. The A-Bomb meets a tropical paradise in this tragic tale of the Cold War in French Polynesia. Colorful archival footage and a 1960s Euro-glamour soundtrack chronicle France’s nuclear tests in violation of the international test ban treaty. The film shows how a tiny group of Tahitian radicals fight for their homeland’s natural and cultural heritage by forming an anti-nuke resistance cell.

Charlotte’s Web

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2007 FESTIVAL
80 min.
Under special arrangement with Walden Media, ACFF presents this poetic children’s tale of friendship and the natural world on a young girl’s family’s farm – a world only she sees. Wilbur and his animal pals get a spectacular film treatment on NCTC’s big screen – some pig, some movie!

Conversing with Aotearoa

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2007 FESTIVAL
15 min.
In a breathtaking blend of animation, still photography, live action and the so-called real world, New Zealanders explore their personal connections with the environment in this era of technological and urbanized disengagement with the natural by journeying into the wilderness.

Critter Quest

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2007 FESTIVAL
22 min.
Presented under special arrangement with the Smithsonian Channel, join Peter Schriemer on a “backyard safari” and discover all sorts of living things right outside your back door on this hi-definition expedition.

Eco Views

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2007 FESTIVAL
28 min.
Fourteen student filmmakers collaborate on four short tales of the environmental history of the Chesapeake Bay, north America’s largest estuary: The River, Hands on The Future, The Bay is Your Oyster, and Deep Bonds: Mattaponi.
[Student Filmmakers]