22 Minutes
Filmmaker Michael Premo
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First Nation and white communities in New Brunswick, Canada successfully fight fracking to protect their water.
Screens on Friday, October 13th during Block 2, which begins at 7:00 PM at the Frank Center.
26 Minutes
Filmmakers: Sam Sheline, Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath and Kent Wagner
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More than 6 million people live in the Potomac Watershed. Some of the very infrastructure that supports their modern lifestyles is poisoning the Potomac. This film follows the Riverkeepers whose mission is to protect clean water for drinking, swimming, and boating.
Screens on Saturday, October 14th in Block 8
which begins at 7:30 PM at the Frank Center AND on Sunday, Block 19 beginning at 3:00 PM at the Frank Center.
6 Minutes
Filmmaker: Sam Dean
A short film detailing water quality monitoring efforts on public lands in West Virginia and Virginia.
David Lillard of the WV Rivers Coalitions will be joining us to talk about recent efforts to protect WV water. This short is a joint project between WV Rivers and Trout Unlimited.
Screens on Saturday, October 14th during Block 8, which begins at 7:30 PM at the Frank Center.
9 Minutes
Filmmaker: Kent Wagner
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More than fifty years after the construction of the Glen Canyon dam, the dam’s existence remains a sensitive subject especially to those fortunate enough to have seen the canyon before it was inundated. Today, pressures on the dwindling water supply in the Colorado River are encouraging renewed discussions about how water is being allocated and whether storing it in Lake Powell still makes sense.
Screens on Sunday, October 23 during Block 8, which begins at 3:30 pm at Reynolds Hall on the Shepherd University Campus.
34 Minutes
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A statistic. But this statistic is made up of individuals. Bangladesh is often described as the most vulnerable country on the planet in the face of a changing climate, as its people are already at risk from rising seas. Filmmakers Daniel Price and Adrien Taylor were fueled by the urgency of the impending displacement of these people who did relatively little to contribute to a problem that may bring unprecedented human suffering.
Two Screenings! Screens on Saturday, October 22 during BLOCK 4, which begins at 2:15 pm at the National Conservation Training Center. Encore screening on Friday, Oct 28th during Block 11, which begins at 6:30 pm at Reynolds Hall.
11 min
Filmmaker: Jeremy Roberts
At the end of the 2014 fishing season, five respected fly fishermen came together to celebrate the joy and passion of fly fishing and to discuss the biggest threat anglers face: a changing climate and warming trout waters.
4:15 pm at the Opera House – Block 8
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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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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
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Hellbender in Tellico River.
6 min
Filmmaker: Ryan Peterson
An open-pit mining boom is underway in northern British Columbia, Canada. The massive size and location of the mines, at the headwaters of major salmon rivers that flow across the border into Alaska, has Alaskans concerned over pollution risks that threaten multi-billion dollar fishing and tourism industries.
3:45 pm Sunday at the Opera House – Block 13
Thank you, Wegmans, for snacks for our Frederick Best of Fest, February 10! Get your tickets here: http://conservationfilm.org/attend/acff-best-of-fest/
American Conservation Film Festival
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A cool fire-wildlife story from Australia for your Monday!
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/australian-raptors-start-fires-to-flush-out-prey
Australian raptors start fires to flush out prey
cosmosmagazine.com
In the first recorded instance of fire being used by animals other than humans, three Australian birds of prey species have been seen carrying burning twigs to set new blazes. John Pickrell reports.
7 more days to get in on ACFF's early bird film submission fees!
https://filmfreeway.com/ACFF
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