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2005 Fairfax Eco FILM Fest

Saturday, June 4th and Sunday, June 5th, 12pm- 5.30pm in the Fairfax Women's Club (on Park St., just down the hill from the Ecofest) For more information or to send thanks for including AR in the festival email Film Festival Coordinator, Sally Cavanagh at turtlesun2003.

 

SATURDAY, June 5

 

12:00 – 1:05

WILD DOLPHINS & WHALES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

64 mins, Produced/Directed by: Dave Anderson

The California Coast is alive, like the Serengeti Plains of Africa, with wild dolphin herds numbering in the thousands and giant whales in some of the largest concentrations in the world. But how long will it last?

 

1:10 – 1:40

NO ROOM TO MOVE

27 mins. Produced, Photographed, and Edited by Chris O'Brien and Tom Tripp

This documentary explores the effect of urban sprawl on sensitive wildlife in Florida and examines how Florida could accomodate the needs of its wildlife and its growing human population through a development model known as The New Urbanism.

 

1:45 – 2:05

HETCH HETCHY

19 mins. Produced by Restore Hetch Hetchy

The film examines the prospect of restoring Hetch Hetchy, the submerged valley in Yosemite National Park which has supplied water to residents of the San Francisco Peninsula since 1923. The film beautifully supports the campaign group Restore Hetch Hetchy‘s aspirations - to drain Hetch Hetchy, and let nature begin to reclaim this spectacular lost valley, twin of Yosemite Valley.

 

2:10 – 2:15

THE MEATRIX

5 mins

The Meatrix film, a lively animated on-line advocacy film that highlights four ways in which factory farms affect us – animal welfare, antibiotic resistant bacteria, pollution and destroyed communities.

 

CHILDRENS FILM PROGRAM 2:15 – 3:45

 

2:15 – 3:00

WAKE UP CALL: Saving the Songbirds

14 mins. Directed and Produced by Claire Blotter

This film celebrates migratory birds and their beautiful complex songs and reveals why they are rapidly disappearing throughout the world. Through the candid voices of San Francisco Bay Area elementary and junior high school students as well as bird experts, the film offers solutions for preserving bird populations by working 'in our own backyard'.

 

3:30 – 3:45

TALES OF WASAKECHAK: HOW WASAKECHAK GOT HIS NAME

15 mins. Producer: Storytellers Production Inc.

In these beautifully animated legends, many life and environmental lessons are given. The beauty, bounty and vulnerability of Mother Earth through the seasons shines in these gentle, fun, and at times mischievous Native legends. Wesakechak hates his name and convinces the Creator to give everyone new names hoping he can receive a better name than the one he already has. 

 

3:45 – 4:00

SELLING THE REVOLUTION

15 mins. Producer/Director: Boondocs Film & Video

A home-spun documentary that follows the highy-inspired visionaries behind the Xtracycle, the world's first SUB (sports utility bicycle). Ross and Kipchoge aren't just selling a bike...they are selling a vehicle for social change and starting the cultural revolution by way of the bike path.

 

4:05 – 4:30

DEADLY SOUNDS IN THE SILENT WORLD

10 mins. Produced by the Whaleman Foundation

Followed by short Q & A session by George Taylor, Seaflow Board Member

The dangers of high intensity active sonars, and how they pose a deadly threat to whales, dolphins and all life in the ocean.

 

4:35 – 5:20

FEATURE: THE WITNESS

43 mins. Produced by Tribe of Heart

How does a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn neighbourhood become an impassioned animal activist? In this award winning documentary, Eddie Lama explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue abandoned animals,become a vegetarian and ultimately, to bring the message of compassion to the streets of New York.

 

SUNDAY 12:00 - 6:00 pm

 

12:00 – 12:30

THE FACES OF ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN CINCINNATI

25 mins. Produced by Solterra and The Sierra Club

Explores the adverse health and other effects felt by economically poor and minority communities that too often face the brunt of environmental pollution and poor land-use planning. While this story takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, the tale can be transposed to many other metropolitan neighborhoods across the United States, and the world.

 

12:30 – 1:30

LOLITA: SLAVE TO ENTERTAINMENT

60 mins. Written, Directed, and Edited by Timothy Michael Gorski

This film sets out to uncover the real life story of Lolita, the world's oldest performing whale. Their journey delivered them from Miami, Florida to San Juan Island where she was captured three decades ago. The intimate, heart rending tale unfolded before them as they unearthed many heavily guarded secrets of the multi-billion dollar Marine Theme Park industry.

 

1:35 – 3:00

FEATURE: OIL ON ICE

57 mins. A Dale Djerassi / Bo Boudart Production in association with Lobitos Creek Ranch

Followed by short Q & A session with the film-makers

A vivid and compelling exploration of the controversy surrounding proposed oil drilling in the fragile frozen ecosystem of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This film brings to a sharp focus the broader debate over energy conservation vs. unbridled consumption. It also dramatizes the choice between technologies based on fossil fuels and those that draw upon renewable, efficient, and non-polluting energy resources.

 

3:05 – 3:40 CHILDREN’S PROGRAM

 

3:05 – 3:20

TALES OF WASAKECHAK: WHY THE RABBIT TURNS WHITE

15 mins. Producer: Storytellers Production Inc.

In these beautifully animated legends, many life and environmental lessons are given.

 

3:25 – 3:40

CROUCHING HERON – JUMPING SALMON

14 mins. A Wilderness Way Project (Email)

The first major winter storm in 2004 led to a record breaking run of Coho salmon returning to their natal stream in the San Geronimo Valley to spawn -- the final act of their three year life cycle.  Scenes show salmon jumping, the rain swollen pools of the Inkwells, females digging nests, males battling, jacks interceding, bodies degenerating, and carcasses providing food for wildlife and nutrients for habitat.

 

3:45 – 4:15

LAST JOURNEY FOR THE LEATHERBACK (TURTLES)?

30 mins. Filmmaker Stan Minasian

This film documents the incredible life of the leatherbacks – the largest species of sea turtle - which can dive as deep as the whales and migrate across entire ocean basins. Much of the story is told through interviews with leading marine scientists, including Dr. Sylvia Earle, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and named Time magazine's first " hero for the planet. "

 

4:20 – 4:50

PBS NOW Special: Mercury in Seafood

30 mins

The expose focuses on the health effects from eating seafood contaminated with mercury.

 

4:55– 5:55

FED UP

60 mins. Produced by Wholesome Goodness Productions

About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, FED UP! presents an entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revoluti on and what we can do about it