65 min
Filmmaker: Chad Stevens
After a coal mine disaster kills her brother, a pro-coal activist joins forces with a tree-hugging environmentalist to take on the most dangerous coal company in America, Massey Energy. As the coal industry faces extinction, will our two heroines be able to heal their wounded community?
4:15 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Byrd Auditorium
TRAILER
19 min
Filmmaker: Richard Hughes
Filmed in Botswana, where 15,000 people share space and resources with 15,000 elephants. This film includes voices and experiences of people who know first-hand the challenges of competing for space, food, and land with the world’s largest population of free-roaming elephants.
3:20 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Byrd Auditorium – Block 7
TRAILER
2.5 min
Filmmaker: Keely Kernan
This short film explores how the MCHM
chemical spill on January 9, 2014 affected LaCrisha Rose and her
family in Cabin Creek, WV.
8:50 pm on Friday at the Byrd Center for Legislative Studies – Block 1
57 min
Filmmakers: Diana Fuller and Chris Beaver
The simple substitution of the word RESOURCE for the word GARBAGE transformed a culture, producing a wealth of new industries and a surprising race to zero. Three years ago the mayor of San Francisco pledged to achieve zero waste by 2020. Racing to Zero tracks San Francisco’s waste stream diversion tactics and presents innovative new solutions to waste.
5:30 pm on Sunday at the Byrd Center for Legislative Studies – Block 14
TRAILER
86 min
Filmmaker: Rob Stewart
Produced by Gus Van Sant, Revolution follows Rob Stewart, director of the documentary Sharkwater, through 15 countries – from the coral reefs in Papua, New Guinea and deforestation in Madagascar to the largest and most destructive environmental project in history in Alberta, Canada, he reveals that all of our actions are interconnected and that environmental degradation, species loss, ocean acidification, pollution and food/water scarcity are reducing the Earth’s ability to house humans.
8:05 pm on Sunday at the Opera House – Block 15
TRAILER
46 min
Filmmaker: Dennis Wells
Honeybees are in crisis. We rely on them to pollinate the world’s food but we lose about a third of them every year. Secrets of the Hive follows the scientists who are looking to the 20,000 species of wild bees for a solution to this global calamity.
TRAILER
27 min
Filmmaker: Eddie Roqueta
When temperatures drop in Montana, wild bison migrate to lower elevations outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. Once outside, they run the risk of being killed because some carry a chronic disease called brucellosis that ranchers fear could spread to cattle. Silencing the Thunder presents the obstacles ranchers face, as well as the side of those trying to protect one of America’s most iconic animals.
8:52 pm on Friday at the Shepherdstown Opera House – Block 2
US Premiere
26 min
Filmmaker: Francois Odendaal Productions
One beautiful, sunny day on the edge of the Karoo, South Africa, a zany scientist and a group of young adventurers go on a quest to find a legendary cheetah called White Eye in the Mountain Zebra National Park.
1:35 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Family Theater – Block 4
TRAILER
15 min
Filmmaker: Tim Persinko
In the winter of 2013 – 2014, bird watchers spotted snowy owls in historic numbers across the northeastern United States. While hunting near the White House, one of these majestic creatures was hit by a city bus. This film follows the remarkable efforts to return the owl to the wild and what’s been learned from that winter’s irruption.
3:40 pm on Saturday at the NCTC Byrd Auditorium – Block 7
TRAILER
10 min
Filmmakers: Jeremy Monroe and David Herasimtschuk
The Last Dragons features North America’s Eastern Hellbender, an ancient salamander that lives as much in myth as in reality. In many waters, myths are all that remain of these sentinel stream-dwellers.
3:53 pm Sunday at the Opera House – Block 13
TRAILER
Hellbender in Tellico River.
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...