Filmmaker: Ron Gilmore Director / Animator: Ron Gilmore 10 minutes
Eco Super Heroes Rawman & Green-Girl come up against the most dangerous threat to our planet they have ever faced. The Genetically Modified Monster FrankenFood! See the teaser here.
Presented on this page are the entries chosen for the 2010 Green Lifestyle Film Festival from the following countries:
AUSTRALIA
DYING TO LIVE Filmmaker: Trish Duke Director: Trish Duke 45 minutes
"Dying To Live" documentary series is about how real people deal with death in real life. We see death and dying on the TV and movie screen everyday, but when faced with this final milestone in our own life we often land up on a roller coaster of reactions and emotions. Two families and a family doctor share open and honestly about common psycho-social-spiritual issues of travelling on this last journey.
NAPPY FREE Filmmaker: Nicole Moore Director: Nicole Moore 26 minutes
In this time of increased awareness of energy, water and other human consumption issues, Nappy Free! re-introduces an ancient practice, perfectly adaptable to the modern world, which significantly reduces each babies impact on the planet. A natural choice for parents who care for the Earth.
PLEASED TO MEAT YOU: LIVE WITH SANDRA FAYE Filmmakers: Megan Huitema, Kelly Carpenter, Vivyan Madigan, Annalisa Francesca, Krystle Penhall Director: Kelly Carpenter 8 minutes
Smiling tyrant, Sandra Faye thinks enviro-chef Greg could use a little mroe protein in his diet.
CANADA
A STEP TOWARD A CLEANER FUTURE Filmmaker: Allen Kessler, Scott Stephenson Director: Allen Kessler 23 minutes
This very innovative and timely film shows how Spectra Energy is working toward taking CO2 currently vented to atmosphere, liquifying it and injecting it into deep underground saline Aquifers in British Columbia. This documentary describes the process, represents the logistical challenges and justifies the purpose.
HANDS ON FARMS Filmmaker: Linda Martin Director: Linda Martin 48 minutes
In Hands on Farms we are taken on a visit to ten certified organic farms in Ontario ranging from orchards to cattle ventures. We meet the farmers who put their hearts into producing fresh food. The film demonstrates how organic farming methods offer an opportunity to revive the family farm, preserve plant and wildlife biodiversity as well as soil quality on agricultural lands. Organic farmers promote rural communities and urban markets. Hands on Farms conveys the beauty of the Ontario countryside, the unique and varied profiles of these farmers and the vibrancy and popularity of Toronto markets like the Brickworks and Dufferin Grove. A MUST for anyone who values a continued, non corporation induced food supply.
INDIA
THE GREEN WARRIORS OF CHANDI'S FORTRESS Filmmaker: Dr. Gaurav Chabra Director: Dr. Gaurav Chabra 35 minutes
A one-man crew, zero-budget film, shot on recycled tapes using a handycam, Green Warriors transforms into the biggest environmental campaign of Chandigarh. This film helps to save the city's Natural Heritage from the Administration's insensitive plans to build a VIP club.
This film is a testament of how powerful a small band of people can be when we dedicate ourselves to preserving Nature Reserves for everyone to enjoy.
This is a documentary recorded to illuminate a series of changes and often unrecorded effects of oil spills as it examines the oil spill in Tae-an Coast on December 7th, 2007. This is a very necessary film, as it illuminates the upcoming second disaster, which might be called a kind of social disaster as it shows the continued effects on children and villagers years later. This film also suggests practical solutions from similar examples of other countries.
NETHERLANDS
ARMS AROUND YOU: PLEASE HUG ME Filmmaker: Ciska de Hartogh Submitted by: Yes, We Care! 12 minutes
Please Hug Me, is a 12 minute documentary by Ciska about the pioneering beginning of the successful AIDS project of the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town which shows us clearly the magnitude of the horrors of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa, which more and more affects young women and their newly born children. The films gives a short but moving image of the tremendous suffering of newly born children who have been infected with the HIV/AIDS virus and the courageous efforts of the medical staff of the Red Cross Children's Hospital to prevent more pregnant HIV infected women from transmitting the HIV virus unto their unborn children.
ARMS AROUND YOU: THANDEKA ZULU Filmmaker: Ciska de Hartogh Submitted by: Yes, We Care! 20 minutes
The film Thandeka Zulu shows the touching story of Thandeka, AIDS infected mother of four children, who lives in appalling poor conditions, but nonetheless finds her strength and comfort in her believe in the Lord and Jesus Christ. A woman who, like Ciska herself who interviews her, has dedicated her life to creating awareness in her community about the dangers of living with HIV/AIDS and who actively believes that abstinence from sex before marriage is the only way to stop the further spread of the virus. Ciska and Thandeka meet in her ramshackle slum dwelling were Thandeka's also entrusts Ciska that her children are fortunately HIV negative thanks to the project of the Red Cross Children's hospital Ciska has helped starting back in 1995. In the long interview Ciska deliberately has left room for Thandeka to take her time and tell her about her living conditions, thus establishing an intimate portrait of this young, unfortunate and yet courageous woman. When leaving her poor dwelling Ciska asked Thandeka, "May I put my arms around you?" And so they stood there silently for a while as silent sculptures in a united fight against AIDS. This question for Ciska has become the slogan for all her projects.
ARMS AROUND YOU Filmmaker: Ciska de Hartogh Submitted by: Yes, We Care! 15 minutes
Arms Around You is an overview a short presentation of some of the projects Ciska has developed and initiated since the last couple of years to create awareness all over the world especially amongst young people about the dangers of HIV AIDS. We see Ciska building her 8 meter high colossal sculptures during festivals, there is an overview of an unique project Ciska and the Oleanworld Foundation have developed and initiated to link high school pupils in Cape Town and The Netherlands to work together on the Arms Around You internet competition to come up with creative ideas and solutions to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And we see a short overview of the annual Fine Art Exhibition's Ciska and the Oleanworld Foundation organise in the Town Hall of The Hague put at her disposal for this purpose by the The Hague City Council and Municipality.
The friendship between three international law students is put on the test when they have to study a fishy verdict related to the Freedom Tower in New York.
MEAT THE TRUTH Filmmaker: Gertjan Zwanikken, Claudine Everaert, Monique van Dijk Director: Gertjan Zwanikken 74 minutes
High profile documentary Meat the Truth forms an addendum to earlier climate change films. The film demonstrates that livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than all cars, trucks, trains, boats and planes added together. Facts are based on scientific data produced by the FAO and other authoritative sources.
UK
ECOPLAZA PARADISE OASIS Filmmaker: Kinga Monica, Miae Lee, Andrew Cox, Ryan Cox Director: Peter Hughes 28 minutes
A remeniscent journey charting a paradigm shift that saved the planet. A win/win pact between governments and NGOs leads to the creation of lifestyle cenres worldwide, from Soweto to New Orleans. Ecoplazas combining like an immune system for the Earth. They address climate change and many social ills simultaneously through multi-layered eco-monics. Thus new stratas of the low-carbon economy get established. In times of flood we built arks to sace ourselves... nature.
US
THE MONEY FIX Filmmaker: Alan Rosenblith Director: Alan Rosenblith 79 minutes
Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The Money Fix explores our society's relationship with the almighty dollar, examining economic patterns in both the human and the natural worlds. Through this lens we learn how to empower ourselves by redesigning the lifeblood of the economy at the community level.
A MUST SEE for anyone disillusioned with the present economic and banking systems.
Sundance Film Festival winner, FUEL is an in-depth, personal journey of oil use and abuse. Through Josh Tickell's personal story, the film examines the history and the future of energy in America presenting new solutions to the imminent danger of our climate crisis and America's thirst for oil.
THE POP-UP HOUSE: AN OPTION FOR GREEN LIVING Filmmaker: Hally Thacher; Johnny Truong Director: Hally Thacher; Johnny Truong 14 minutes
This documentary outlines Hally Thacher's 12-week journey in accomplishing her dream of building an eco-friendly home called the Pop-Up House in Petaluma, CA. Hally managed to build the entire Pop-Up House using sustainable techniques and materials- from recyclable concrete for the foundation to non-toxic, organic materials for the furniture- all without exceeding her budget of $250k. See how Hally and her team overcame the typical, and not so typical, challenges of building a Pop-Up House from the ground up.
UNLIMITED: RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Filmmaker: Daniel Califf-Glick, Barbara Azzoli Director: Daniel Califf-Glick, Barbara Azzoli 26 minutes
Unlimited, a documentary about renewable energy, highlights a group of passionate 6th graders who call on adults everywhere to take action and address global warming. Their voices are supported with those of global warming and energy experts who discuss upcoming and promising technologies like solar, wind, tidal power and more.
FOSSIL FUEL FREE FILM Filmmaker: Matt Harnack Director: Matt Harnack 21 minutes
Matt was determined to break his addiction to oil. Even though it was hard to imagine life without fossil fuel, itw as far worse to think about what could happen if it keeps being burnt recklessly. So, to solve the problem of peak oil and global warming, Matt did the only thing he knew how to do. He made a movie.
FIGHTING FOR INDIA'S WILDLIFE Filmmaker: Charles Annenberg Weingarten Director: Charles Annenberg Weingarten 9 minutes
Protecting animals in India is no easy task. Conservation and anti-poaching laws are not properly enforced, and land developers and mining companies are posed at the edge of many of the country's last great nature sanctuaries.
GUARDIANS OF THE SEA: ORCAS Filmmaker: Charles Annenberg Weingarten Director: Charles Annenberg Weingarten 10 minutes
Amidst the San Juan islands - an archipelago of more than 170 islands in upper Puget Sound- live several pods of orcas known collectively as the Southern Residents. Scientists Kenneth Balcomb and Paul Spong are recording the movements of these incredible creatures.
Through this film they take us on their magical journey!
GUARDIANS OF THE SEA: WILD DOLPHINS Filmmaker: Charles Annenberg Weingarten Director: Charles Annenberg Weingarten 9 minutes
Guided by the principle of "in their world, on their terms," Denise Herzing and her team of researchers track and observe a pod of wild Atlantic dolphins in the Bahamas. Using non-invasive techniques to build trust, they can see how the dolphins behave.
Through the lens of their cameras we are given access to this enthralling experience under the sea with these precious sea animals.
METAMORPHOSIS Filmmaker: Ann Kaneko Director: Ann Kaneko, Peter Bill 9 minutes
The Chumash Indians, who inhabited the Southern California coastal region, believed that there were three worlds: the world which we inhabit as well as the one above and below us. The world above was the sky and home to the eagle and the supernatural; the middle world, was where humans reside; and the lower world, was the home of darkness. This film is loosely based on this cosmology and how man interacts with it.
SWEET REMEDY: THE WORLD REACTS Filmmaker: Cori Brackett Director: Cori Brackett 96 minutes
This sequel to Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, explores the more complex issues involved in what has happened to our food supply since the introduction of the toxin, aspartame, to markets and offers a surprising solution to our food needs.
GORILLAS... 98.6% HUMAN Filmmaker: Charles Annenberg Weingarten Director: Charles Annenberg Weingarten 23 minutes
On a trip to Rwanda, Explore had the opportunity to visit four families of wild mountain gorillas, a species with only 720 remaining members. Their guide is Craig Sholley, who has been intimately involved in the preservation of African wildlife for more than 30 years
ARCTIC: CHANGE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD Filmmaker: Charles Annenberg Weingarten Director: Charles Annenberg Weingarten 38 minutes
The Arctic is a cold, vast and astonishing expanse of land and sea at the top of the planet. Learn about Inuit culture and explore how their fragile ecosystem and way of life are faring in the face of global warming.
I AM AN ANIMAL Filmmaker: Ingrid Newkirk Director: Matthew Galkin
73 minutes
A documentary that takes a candid and introspective look at the beliefs and motives of Ingria Newkirk and People for the Ethical treatment of Animals. Graphically explores the animal rights movement.
MAKING PEACE WITH GRAVITY Filmmaker: Michael Tonetti Director: Michael Tonetti 54 minutes
Overview of body mechanics as affected by gravity- issues of joint stabilizer muscle and joint alignment are explored and a rationale for adopting the ancient vertebrate movement pattern of front end of the spine going first into gravity and movement, is presented. Next is "getting the most out of the exercises." Then we explore basic movements and then pattern switching exercises- ending with summary, advice and a music video
US / AUSTRALIA
VEGAN 101 Filmmaker: Joanne Rose Director: Joanne Rose 15 minutes
Vegan 101 is a comedic web series written & produced by Vegan actress and model Joanne Rose, that looks the Vegan lifestyle and how much fun we can have with it if we were to take it to the extreme.
US / HAWAII
OLOMANA GARDENS PERMACULTURE AND AQUAPONICS Filmmaker: Al Cloutier; Jayne Cloutier Director: Al Cloutier; Jayne Cloutier 60 minutes
A film revealing the beauty and inner workings of Olomana Gardens, a permaculture farm meant to serve as a model of a modern, sustainable food growing system that can be applied to small scale farms and residential lots.
US / RUSSIA
BIRTH AS WE KNOW IT Filmmaker: Elena Tonetti Director: Elena Tonetti 40 minutes
"Birth as We Know It" is about conscious procreation and about how to achieve such state of being that allows a new person to enter into our world in grace and dignity. It explains why women must recover the ability to give birth naturally, and prevent birth trauma as much as possible.
US / INTERNATIONAL
PLAYING FOR CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC Filmmaker: Robert Smith Director: Mark Johnson 84 minutes
The Playing for Change team, led by director Mark Johnson, traveled the world recording music by more than 100 musicians, from South Africa to the U.S., Spain, Israel, Palestine, Ireland, India, Nepal and more. They created songs around the world, on which musicians from thousands of miles apart collaborate. It is the power of music to unite the globe.
