Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story

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76 min

Filmmakers: Grant Baldwin and Jen Rustemeyer

We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash? Filmmakers and food lovers, Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge.

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6:40 pm on Sunday at the Byrd Center for Legislative Studies -Block 14 

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Last Days of Ivory

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3 min

Filmmaker: Kathryn Bigelow

This animated, short film makes the very real connection between elephant poaching and terrorism. It illustrates the diabolical intersection of two problems that are of great concern – species extinction and global terrorism, both requiring urgent action.

3:15 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Byrd Auditorium – Block 7

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Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid

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52 min

Filmmakers: Yasuhiro Koyama, Hiromichi Iwasaki

The giant squid are the largest squid in the world, yet they have never been seen alive in the deep sea. After 100 dives totaling 400 hours, this film crew, along with some scientific experts, finally succeeded in capturing footage of a giant squid in its natural, deep-ocean habitat. Narrated by David Attenborough.

2:30 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Family Theater – Block 6

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Life on Wallace’s Line

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US Premiere

20 min

Filmmakers: Nick and Cheryl Dean

Wallacea is the biographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands. One of the areas of the world with the widest range of endemic biodiversity, it remains virtually unknown to most people. This short film highlights the region’s biodiversity and the efforts of a few individuals to protect this fragile ecosystem and its inhabitants.

2:50 pm on Saturday at the Opera House – Block 5

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Merchants of Doubt

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Green Fire Award Winner

94 min

Filmmaker: Robert Kenner

Robert Kenner, acclaimed director of Food Inc., lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities – yet contrarily are aiming to spread maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change.

7:30 pm on Saturday at Reynolds Hall – Block 10

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Natural World: The Bat Man of Mexico

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US Premiere

60 min

Filmmaker: Tom Mustill

Rodrigo ‘The Bat Man of Mexico’, has been saving the amazing bats of his homeland since childhood, when he kept vampire bats in his bathroom. Now his favorite drink, Tequila, is at stake. The bat that pollinates the plant that this famous liquor comes from is in trouble. Rodrigo decides to track their migration to save them. He braves hurricanes, snakes, Mayan tombs and seas of cockroaches to find and save the bats. This is a rare heart-warming and breathtaking conservation success story.

1:00 pm on Saturday at the Shepherdstown Opera House – Block 5

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Nature Rx: Prescription Strength

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3 min

Filmmaker: Justin Bogardus

Nature and humanity have a terrible marketing problem. Polar bears, hurricanes, and ice caps are not waking people up fast enough. It’s too impersonal and too easy to ignore. Here comes Prescription Strength, a hilarious, unflinching, timely look at what a person really needs to save themselves, each other, and our planet.

6:09 pm on Saturday at the Opera House – Block 8

9:05 pm on Saturday at Reynolds Hall – Block 10

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No Jile

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10 min

Filmmaker: Carolina Davila

In this short, animated film, an elderly man anchored to his homeland has to struggle, searching for water to survive, but today that is a losing battle. Facing drought and loss of crops, the old man is forced to leave his country, assuming all that this means, and become a climatic refugee.

7:20 pm on Saturday at the Opera House – Block 9

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North of the Sun

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46 min

Filmmakers: Inge Wegge and Jorn Ranum

Lured by some of the world’s finest surfing waves, two young men spent nine months of a Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of an arctic island facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin out of driftwood and other cast-off materials that washed up on shore and ate expired food the stores would otherwise have thrown away. Their ingenuity and honest commentary is sure to inspire and entertain.

5:20 pm on Saturday at the Opera House – Block 8

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Osprey: Marine Sentinel

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15 min

Filmmaker: Jacob Steinberg

The first film in over thirty years starring what is arguably the world’s most iconic and significant raptor. Exclusive access, cutting-edge technology, and innovative cinematographic techniques provide a unique perspective and unprecedented intimacy into the dramatic story of a life-long pair and the intrepid scientists who have spent a lifetime discovering what may be one of the most significant success stories of environmental conservation.

4:05 pm Sunday at the Opera House – Block 13

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