85 min
Filmmakers: Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn
Follow filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers one of the most destructive industries facing the planet today and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about animal agriculture. This documentary reveals the devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet.
7:35 pm on Saturday at the Opera House – Block 9
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102 min
Filmmaker:Vivienne DeCourcy
From the green hills of Ireland to arid Ethiopia, to London’s Chelsea, Dare to be Wild is a romantic adventure based on the against-all-odds true story of Mary Reynolds, a modern-day heroine, whose quest is to show the world the power of wild nature as she reaches for her dreams – one garden, one vast desert, at a time.
3:25 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Family Theater – Block 6
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46 min
Filmmakers: Kira Ivanoff and Jess Reiss
In the network of rivers and streams that crisscross the Amazon there is a hidden electric grid – a bizarre community of fish that have an electric sixth sense. They can communicate wirelessly, control each other remotely and emit shocks that can stop a human heart. Electric Amazon unlocks their electric code.
12:40 pm on Saturday at NCTC Family Theater – Block 4
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58 min
Filmmaker: Mike Youngren
This story of systematic failure centers on the chemical spill in January 2014 into the Elk River near Charleston, WV. A coal-cleaning chemical fouled the area water system and closed the tap on 300,000 residents. The documentary asks, “Where were the agencies that are supposed to protect us from ourselves?” It discusses “Appalachian Fatalism”- the public tendency to accept hardship and disaster as a way of life. ERB also takes us to the watershed, the glorious headwaters where West Virginia’s abundant water resource emerges clean and pure.
7:50 pm on Friday at the Byrd Center for Legislative Studies – Block 1
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12 min
Filmmaker: Daniel Göz
Each fall the highly endangered European lake trout returns to its birthplace high in the Swiss Alps to reproduce. Driven by their instincts and guided by remarkable senses, the trout mate, displaying a complex spawning ritual in this harsh environment.
4:22 pm Sunday at the Opera House – Block 13
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4 min
Filmmaker: Lily Williams
What happens if sharks disappear? FINconceivable is an animated short that explores the important role sharks play in our world and what could happen if the ocean’s fiercest predators ceased to exist.
1:30 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Family Theater – Block 4
7 min
Filmmakers: Turk Pipkin, Christy Pipkin
The Nobelity Project takes a stunning look at the critical threat to East Africa’s millions of flamingos from proposed soda ash mining at Lake Natron in Tanzania and demonstrates how local acts have global impacts.
12:30 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Family Theater – Block 4
84 min
Filmmaker: Jeremy Seifert
Filmmaker and concerned father, Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and how they affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice. His journey takes him to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and even agri-giant Monsanto as he poses perhaps the ultimate question about what we eat: Is it still possible to reject our current food system, or have we already lost something we can’t get back?
1:40 pm on Sunday at the Opera House – Block 11
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92 min
Filmmakers: Costa Boutsikaris, Emmett Brennan
This documentary is a perfect introduction to permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics and governance. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience.
12:00 pm on Sunday at the Opera House – Block 11
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ACFF Broadcast Award Winner
46 min
Filmmakers: Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin
In the Solomon Islands, Albert Uy is trying to do what Charles Darwin never did: catch evolution in the act. But the islands’ resources are being exploited and the wildlife there is at risk. Islands of Creation documents the race against time to prove the existence of a new species before it’s lost forever.
12:30 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Byrd Auditorium – Block 3
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Wishing our friends and community partners at the Contemporary American Theater Festival a wonderful 26th season of new and evocative plays, beginning tonight and running through July 31! Check out the superb offerings here:
http://catf.org/
CATF / Contemporary American Theater Festival
catf.org
A Summer Theater Festival: Five New American Plays with lecture series, and more. Shepherdstown, WV - 90 min from Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD.
Interesting article on the trend in filmmaking to bring some adrenaline-pumping adventure into the conservation message. ACFF is hip to that! :)
http://hcn.org/issues/48.11/…
Nature’s worth, through filmmakers’ eyes
hcn.org
A new wave of outdoor films encompass both conservation and adventure.
We've made some recent updates to our website, including the announcement of our 2016 film selections and new film awards! Check it out and stay tuned!
http://conservationfilm.org/
American Conservation Film Festival – Engage. Inform. Inspire.
conservationfilm.org
We have added four new categories of film awards this year! From recognizing overall filmmaking excellence to our new Green Spark awards, we are pleased to applaud our conservation filmmakers.
Shepherdstown did not experience the terrible flooding that affected (and continues to affect) most of our West Virginia neighbors. If you are able to send some support in the form of supplies or cash donation, here is a way to do so through Shepherd University. Many people in WV could really use our help right now.
http://www.shepherd.edu/communityservice/wvfloodrelief
West Virginia Flood Relief
shepherd.edu
<p>Dear Friends and Colleagues,</p> <p>Over the past few days, we have all watched in horror the excruciating devastation caused by massive flooding in West Virginia. Many of our citizens have lost th...