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Television
Planet Green
http://planetgreen.discovery.com
Discovery Communications, LLC
1 Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
PR: Bryan Hughes
bryan_hughes@discovery.com
240-662-2000
Green Scene TV
www.greenscenetv.com
Desiree Annetoinette
Boulder, CO
EarthWeek2007@comcast.net
The Ecology Channel
Ecology Communications, Inc.
www.ecology.com
Maryland Office: 410-465-0480
Shelley Duvall - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John H. Hoagland, Jr. - Vice Chairman and Secretary
Eric McLamb - Founder and President
Ed Begley, Jr. - Chairman, Environmental Advisory Board
webmaster@ecology.com
The Green Channel
www.ecology.com/greenchannel
WETV House
342 MacLaren Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 0M6 Canada
888-238-4580 Fax: 613-238-5642
info@wetv.com
Tomorrow's Planet Television
(never launched!)
Turner Media Group, Inc
Main Office:
712 5th Ave. 28th fl. NYC 10019
Parent office:
4100 E. Mississippi Ste 1700
Glendale, CO 80246
303-839-5303 Fax: 303-839-5335
Ben Tatta - President
Tansy Hawken Young - VP, Programming
Summer Rayne Oakes - Special Projects
John Howell - General Manager
Eco-Footage
Dennis Church
988 Cranberry Drive
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-865-0854 Fax:
408-865-0888
www.ecofootage.com
ecoiq@ecoiq.com
Envision
Environmental Media Center
Box 311. Ft. Tilden NY 11695
www.envirovideo.com
Steve Jambeck - President
718-318-8045
envirovideo@earthlink.net
Karl Grossman - Vice President & Program Director
631-725-2858
kgrossman@hamptons.com
EcoTVNews
www.ecotvnews.org
Richard Jett - Coordinator
20A Sunnyside Ave. Suite 150
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-388-3330 Fax: 415-381-3780
info@ecotvnews.org
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Festivals
GAIA FILM FESTIVAL
Boulder Theater/Boulder Public Library
June 20th, 21th and 22th 2008
www.gaiafilmfest.com
360 Interlocken Blvd
Broomfield, CO 80021
877-874-4576
info@gaiafilmfest.com
Press Contact: Una Morera
303-222-3898 Fax: 303-222-3807
Annual Woodstock
Museum Film/Video Festival
http://www.woodstockmuseum.com/2005_ff.html
Labor Day Weekend
Nathan Koenig & Shelli Lipton
Box 73
Woodstock, NY 12498
hello@woodstockmuseum.com
845-246-0600
Sonoma
Environmental Film Festival
http://www.seff.us
Napa Sonoma Wine
Country Film Festival
http://www.winecountryfilmfest.com
A roving film festival, takes place outdoors and in select venues.
12000 Henno Road
P.O. Box 303
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
Stephen & Justine Ashton
wcfilmfest@aol.com
707-935-3456 - office
707-228-8514 - cell
Ch•Eco Film Fest
www.checofilmfest.org
400 West 1st Street
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0555
Jennifer Rotnem
530-898-5205 Fax: 530-898-4363
jrotnem@csuchico.edu
Earthdance
Environmental Film Festival
www.earthdancefilms.com
April 14 -15, 2007
Oakland Museum of California
Founder & Director Zakary Zide
510-701-4019
zakzide@yahoo.com
Annual Artivist
Film Festival
"Merging Art & Activism for Global Consciousness"
www.artivists.org
www.myspace.com/artivistnetwork
November 9-12, 2006
Egyptian Theater - Hollywood
The Artivist Collective, Inc.
P.O. Box 910
Hollywood , CA. 90028
310-712-1222 Fax 323-464-5566
DIAKY DIAZ - Founder / Executive Director / Executive Producer
diakydiaz@artivists.org
CHRISTOPHER RIEDESEL - Vice President of Finance
christopher@artivists.org
BETTINA WOLFF - Vice President of Operations
bettinawolff@artivists.org
ARTIVIST FILM DEPARTMENT
film@artivists.org
New Zealand
Vegetarian Film Festival
October 8, 2006
www.vegetarianfilmfest.org
Meat Free Media
PO Box 34641
Birkenhead
Northshore City
Auckland
general@meatfreemedia.com
Festival Directors:
Aaron Koolen
Tel: (09) 3754155
Mobile: 021 2987023
aaron@meatfreemedia.com
Yolanda Soryl
Tel: (03) 356 3166
Mobile: 021 294 6714
Fax: (03) 356 0229
yorosoryl@paradise.net.nz
Big Sky
Documentary Film Festival
Feb 16-22, 2006
http://highplainsfilms.org
131 South Higgins Ave. Suite 201
Missoula, Montana 59802
(406) 541-3456
bigsky@highplainsfilms.org
Damon Ristau, Festival Director
Doug Hawes-Davis, Programming Director
Valerie Krex, Volunteer Coordinator
Gita Saedi, Programming Associate
Dru Carr, Programming Associate
Green Apple Film
Festival
April 20-23, 2006
New York City
www.greenapplefestival.com
curated by RES
www.res.com
Contact: Justin Bolognino
justin (at) learnedevolution.com
Earth Day New York
201 East 42nd St. Suite 3200
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-922-0048 Fax: 212-922-1936
Festival
International du Film Nature et Environnement
http://www.frapna.org/festival.htm
12 - 16 April 2006
FRAPNA Isère
MNEI - 5, place Bir-Hakeim
Grenoble France 38000
Tel: 33 (0) 4 76 42 64 08 Fax: 33 (0) 4 76 44 63 36
Séverine Grosjean et Natacha Balaÿ
communication-isere@frapna.org
festival@frapna.org
Responsable administratif: Jean-Yves Besson
administratif-isere@frapna.org
Assistantes administratives: Fatiha Abdelhadi et Nadia Youkana
frapna-isere@frapna.org
Animations scolaires: Matthieu Benoît-Gonin
coordination-education-isere@frapna.org
Festival
International du Film D'Environnement
23 - 29 November 2005
http://www.festivalenvironnement.com
Cinema La Pagode
57 bis, rue de Baylone, Paris 95007
www.festivalenvironnement.com
Office: 35, boulevard des Invalides
+33 1 53 85 67 94
contact@festivalenvironnement.com
Contacts:
Patricia Blanchard-Bouvelot
+33 1 53 85 66 40
patricia.blanchard-bouvelot@iledefrance.fr
Etienne Lerbret
+33 1 44 29 23 12
elerbret@personality.fr
Sandrine Kocki
+33 1 53 85 66 50
sandrine.kocki@iledefrance.fr
Mondial Du Film D'aventure à Manaus (amazon)
Amazonas Opera House
http://www.amazonasfilmfestival.com
LE PUBLIC SYSTEME CINEMA
40, rue Anatole France
92594 Levallois-Perret FRANCE
Céline Petit & Diana Badreddine
Tel: +33 1 41 34 23 50 / 21 26 Fax: +33 1 41 34 20 77
cpetit@lepublicsysteme.fr
dbadreddine@lepublicsysteme.fr
Ecocinema International Environmental Film Festival
http://www.ecocinema.gr
Saripulou 11, Mouseio, 106 82 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 210 884 6055 Fax: +30 210 884 6278;
info@ecocinema.gr
Art Director: Lucia Rikaki
Administrator: Mrs Tasia Crissaiti
Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival
http://www.cinemambiente.it
c.so Regina Margherita, 73
10124 Torino, Italy
Tel: 011 197 11 943 Fax: 011 197 11 944
festival@cinemambiente.it
Environmental Film Festival
Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature
http://www.eckerd.edu/film
Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida
727-864-7979
events@eckerd.edu
Nanookfilmfest
http://www.nanookfest.it
Formerly known as Il Silenzioso Richiamo della Terra/The Silent Call of
the Earth. Nanookfilmfest screens documentaries about peoples of diverse
cultures and about the environment. The Festival has programmed works by
Native North American directors Victor Masayesva, Jr. and Shelley Niro,
and other works on indigenous issues.
Associazione Nanook
via Sammartino, 4 - 90141 Palermo, Italy
tel/fax: +39 091 6124572
segreteria@nanookfest.it
Bicycle Film
Festival
http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com
New York - Los Angeles - London - San Francisco - Tokyo
70A Greenwich Ave., #307
New York, NY. 10011
212-463-8891 - 212-726-8505
info@bicyclefilmfestival.com
Director: Brendt Barbur
brendt@bicyclefilmfestival.com
Media Director: Danya Abt
danya@bicyclefilmfestival.com
Art Director: Nick Golebiewski
nick@bicyclefilmfestival.com
press@bicyclefilmfestival.com
Marin Environmental
Film Festival
http://www.marinenvironmentalfilmfestival.org
April 22-24, 2005
Environmental Forum of Marin
P.O. Box 150459
San Rafael, CA 94915
415-479-7814
info@marinenvironmentalfilmfestival.org
Artivist Film
Festival
http://www.artivistfilmfestival.org
The Artivist Collective
P.O.Box 910
Hollywood, CA 90028
310-712-1222
PR@artivistfilmfestival.org
Founder Diaky Diaz:
diakydiaz@artivist.us
Wild and Scenic Film
Festival (SYRCL)
http://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org
http://www.syrcl.org/filmfest
216 Main Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
530-265-5961 x202 Fax: 530-265-6232
Kathy Dotson, Festival Director
kathy@syrcl.org
Janet Cohen, Executive Director
janet@syrcl.org
Finger Lakes
Environmental Film Festival
http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/about.htm
Christopher Riley - Festival Coordinator
Cornell Center for the Environment
104 Willard Straight Hall
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-4933 Fax: 607-255-0238
cjr20@cornell.edu
Better World Film
Festival
http://www.betterworldfilms.com
Better World Media
P.O. Box 45095
Seattle, WA 98145-0095
Traveling Film Festival: WA & New England
Submission guidelines:
206-523-6310
peter@frugalgreen.com
info@frugalgreen.com
Jackson Hole
Wildlife Film Festival
http://www.jhfestival.org
P.O. Box 3940
240 South Glenwood Street, Suite 112
Jackson Hole, WY 83001
307-733-7016 Fax: 307-733-7376
info@jhfestival.org
Executive Director - Lisa Samford
Planet in Focus - Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival
http://www.planetinfocus.org
Sept 28th to Oct 3rd 2004
455 Spadina Avenue - Suite 304
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2G8
416-531-1769 Fax: 416-913-2310
Publicist: Sylvie Basley 416-216-4695
information@planetinfocus.org
Environmental Production Guide
http://www.eidc.com/epg/index.htm
Entertainment Industry Development Corporation
7083 Hollywood Boulevard, 5th Floor
Hollywood CA 90028
323-957-1000
Fax: 323-463-0613
info@eidc.com
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
c/o KCTS-TV
http://www.hazelfilm.org/outlinks.htm
401 Mercer Street
Seattle, WA 98109
206-443-7239
info@hazelfilm.org
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
1228 1/2 31st street NW
Washington DC 20007
202-342-2564
envirofilmfest@igc.org
Bioneers
Festival of Film & Video
http://www.bioneers.org/conference_page/03_conference/filmfest.html
Marin Center, San Rafael, California
Media Liason – Lois Lipman
505-986-0366
media@bioneers.org
EARTHVISION 2000
c/o CTSCC
http://gate.cruzio.com/~earthvis/home.htm
816 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-425-8848 ext. 317
earthvis@cruzio.com
Global Visions Festival
http://www.globalvisionsfestival.com
#253, The Birks Building
10113-104 Street
Edmonton, AB., Canada T5J 1A1
780-414-1052
globalvisions@compusmart.ab.ca
International Wildlife Film Festival
http://www.wildlifefilms.org
27 Fort Missoula Rd. Suite #2
Missoula, Montana 59804-7200
406-728-9380 Fax: 406-728-2881
iwff@wildlifefilms.org
Interdependent Film Series
Alliance for Sustainability
Oct. 8-Nov. 5, 2002 - New York, N.Y.
1521 University Ave., SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-331-1099 Fax: 612-379-1527
info@nyafs.org
http://www.nyafs.org
ÖKOMEDIA - International Environmental Film Festival
http://www.oekomedia-institut.de
Oekomedia Institut eV,
Nussmannstrasse 14,
D-79098 Freiburg, Germany
Tel: +49 76 15 20 24 Fax: +49 76 15 55 72 4
Contacts:
Marianne Chapuis
festival@oekomedia-institut.de
Sabine Frigge presse@oekomedia-institut.de
Wild Spaces - Australia's National Environment and Social Justice Film Festival
http://www.wildspaces.wild.net.au
PO Box 208 Brunswick East
Victoria 3057 Australia
03.9387.4732
wildspaces @ wild.net.au (address bouncing)
World Community Film Festival
http://www.web.net/~worldcom/filmfest.htm
Suite 229-2270 Cliffe Avenue
Courtenay, BC Canada V9N 2L4
250-334-9434
wbradley@mars.ark.com
WILDSCREEN 2002
http://www.wildscreen.org.uk
Anchor Road
Bristol BS1 5TT United Kingdom
+44 (0) 117 915 7217 Fax: +44 (0) 117 915 7105
Marketing & PR
Hamish MacCall hamish.maccall@wildscreen.org.uk
+44 (0) 117 915 7102
Festival Content
Dominic Weston dominic.weston@wildscreen.org.uk
+44 (0) 117 974 5822
General Enquiries
sarah.mitchell@wildscreen.org.uk
- sue.lion@wildscreen.org.uk
World Population Film/Video Festival
http://www.wpfvf.com
46 Fox Hill Road, Bernardston, MA 01337
800-638-9464 Fax: 413-648-9204
info@wpfvf.com
DC Environmental
Film Festival
http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
10th Anniversary Festival!
March 13-23 2003
1228 1/2 31st street NW
Washington DC 20007
202-342-2564
envirofilmfest@igc.org
Sponsors: Ford Motor Company, Marpat Foundation, Cartoon Network, Shared
Earth Foundation, Freed Foundation
Celebrating a decade of cinematic focus of Earth's diverse environments,
the 2002 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital has become
a national leader in showcasing the finest in environmental filmmaking.
Founded in 1993 by Flo Stone, a respected film programmer, the Festival
seeks to expand the public’s knowledge and understanding of our world.
The Environmental Film Festival is not a competitive festival and no
prizes are awarded. There are no formal submissions. In consultation with
the Festival office, presenting organizations select and develop their own
screenings. A small, talented Festival staff coordinates and promotes the
program with the help of volunteers and interns.
Most events with the more than 65 collaborating organizations are free,
and all are open to the public. Almost all the screenings are enhanced by
discussions with filmmakers, special guests and environmental experts.
The 2002 schedule encompasses a broad mix of films. Included are winning
selections from other festivals: Jackson Hole, MOUNTAINFILM in Telluride,
the U.N. Association Film Festival, the Ottawa International Student
Animation Festival, and Germany’s ÖKOMEDIA.
Our 10th Festival presents 105 films, with 54 Washington D.C. premieres
from 27 countries. Following an exciting Pre-Festival Event, the program
is held over 11 days at museums, libraries, embassies, environmental
organizations, international institutions, and community centers
throughout Washington D.C.
In The Washington Post a year ago, Suzanne Richardson captured the essence
of the Festival: “The powerful images of film and the newfound awareness
of our environment are inextricably bound.” She observed that the
Environmental Film Festival “aptly reflects its subject—it’s big and
sprawling with as many eyes as a jumping spider.”
Film subjects span the world, and focus on local issues as well. Gifted
filmmakers give us diverse and powerful ways of entering, experiencing,
and understanding our surroundings. The environment cannot be left to
“environmentalists.” It needs the attention of us all. It thrives on
the vigilance of citizens, and the wonder of small children, but it also
requires the special gifts of scientists, teachers, government officials,
and artists of all kinds—writers, sculptors, architects, painters,
musicians, poets and, of course, filmmakers.
Through a great variety of screenings, the Festival reaches out to
audiences of all ages and welcomes the public’s reactions and
suggestions. We dedicate our Festival’s 10th year by echoing words from
Peter Matthiessen’s new book, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
—“For all those working to defend the sanctity of Earth’s precious
land and life.”
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Peer to Peer Organizations
Pop Sustainability
144 West 27th Street, No. 8R
New York, NY, 10001
646-638-3122
Connects millions of young people around the world through media, events
and strategic partnerships.
pop@popsustainability.org
www.thinkpop.org
New York Alliance
for Sustainability Interdependent Film Series
http://www.nyafs.org
info@nyafs.org
Environmental Media
Fund, Inc.
http://environmentalmediafund.org
73 Surrey Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-381-3887
EMFund@comcast.net
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Catalogs &
Distributors
Earth Cinema Circle
http://www.earthcinemacircle.com
369 Montezuma Ave., #234
Santa Fe, NM 87501
303-222-8790
info@earthcinemacircle.com
Stephen Simon
Gay Hendricks
Rick Ridgeway
Green Planet Films, Inc.
http://www.greenplanetfilms.org
PO Box 282
Corte Madera, CA 94976
415-383-0484 Fax: 415-380-9515
info@greenplanetfilms.org
Suzanne Harle - Founder - Executive
Director
The Film Connection
http://www.thefilmconnection.org
P.O. Box 2867
Seattle, WA 98111
info@thefilmconnection.org
William Brent
Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
610-779-8226
Fax: 610-370-1978
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com
Staff:
John Hoskyns-Abrahall john@bullfrogfilms.com
Winifred Scherrer winnie@bullfrogfilms.com
Elizabeth Stanley elizabeth@bullfrogfilms.com
National Sales Manager
Cheryl Gillam Woolley cheryl@bullfrogfilms.com
Office Manager
Sieglinde Abromaitis sieglinde@bullfrogfilms.com
Customer Relations Manager
Dennis Kohr dennis@bullfrogfilms.com
Shipping Manager
Sue Lord Barker sue@bullfrogfilms.com
John's personal assistant.
Josh Sprinkle josh@bullfrogfilms.com
Accounting Manager
Jennifer Blackwell-Yale jennifer@bullfrogfilms.com
Writer/Editor
The Video Project and Act Now Productions
For 17 years the Video Project has been a leading distributor of
high-quality environmental videos about the fate of our planet.
The Video Project
and Act Now Productions
375 Alabama, Suite 490
San Francisco, CA 94110
1-800-4-PLANET (800-475-2638)
Fax: 415-821-7204
Staff:
Adam Werbach adam@videoproject.net
President
Lyn Merrill lyn@videoproject.net
Director
Amanda Boxall amanda@videoproject.net
Production Coordinator
Yogi Graham yogi@videoproject.net
Program Associate
Patricia Carney patricia@videoproject.net
Database
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Hollywood Environmental
Focus
Groups
Environmental Media Association - Environmental Media
Awards
10780 Santa Monica, Suite #210
Los Angeles, CA 90025
http://www.ema-online.org
Staff:
Debbie Levin Executive Director
Patie Maloney Director of Public Relations & Special Events
Jennifer DePeralta Program & Events Manager
Katie Garrison Administrative Assistant
ema@ema-online.org
310- 446 - 6244
Earth Communications
Office
-
12021 Wilshire Blvd., Suite #557
Los Angeles, CA 90025
- 1526 14th St., Suite 106
Santa Monica, CA 90404-3320
310-656-0577
info@oneearth.org
http://www.oneearth.org
Chair: Larry Kopald
Vice-Chair: Anne Milgrim
Managing Director: Ruben Aronin (has been to Washington Street...)
Assistant Director: Lisa Day
ecoffice@earthlink.net
Campaign Coordinator: Bruce Hartzell
Program Assistant: Cassie Gruenstein
Founder: Bonnie Reiss
Tony Adamson - Ed Begley, Jr. - Lindsey Bell - Daniel Benzali - Bob
Bernstein - Linda Blair - Steve Bornstein - Pat Brenner - Pierce Brosnan -
Toni Childs - Bob Cohen - Cindy Crawford - James Cromwell - Hollace Davids
- John Paul DeJoria - Cary Elwes - Ed Francis - Scott Garen - Sara &
Barbara Gilbert - Kip Gilman - Donna & Donnie Graves - Brian Grazer -
Khrystyne Haje - Barry & Maureen Haldeman - Woody Harrelson - Jordan
Harris - Sandra Hay - Tippi Hedren Fraser & Marilyn Heston -
Debra Hill - Bambi Holzer - Al Hornsby - Ron & Cheryl Howard - Michael
Keaton - Robert Glenn Ketchum - Mick Kleber - Larry Kopald - Alan
Kozlowski - Joe Lando - Marcia Lansdown - Jessica Laufer - Ed Lauter -
Sharon Lawrence - Tim Matheson - Peter Max - William McCrum - Jim &
Penny McGehee - Hale & - Anne Milgrim - Renee Miller - Donna Mills -
David Mirkin - Jeffrey Mora - Esai Morales - Nancy Morgan Ritter - Dave
Mount - Olivia Newton-John - Norman Pattiz - Alexandra Paul - Laurie
Peters - Shanna Reed - John Ritter - Mimi Rogers - Rick Rosenthal - David
Ryer - Howard Sapper - Gregory Sater - Michelle Scarabelli - Louis
Schwartzberg - Gary Shafner - Keely Shaye Smith - Randi Spivak - Nancy
Stephens - Ron Stone - Jim Swindel - Bob Talbot - Kit Thomas - Tim Warner
- Dennis Weaver - Lance Webster - Bob Weir - Michael Weiss - Floyd Red
Crow Westerman - Pete Zachery - Hans Zimmer - Daphne Zuniga
Corporate Friends:
AMC Theatres www.amctheatres.com
cow. www.cow.com
Deluxe Labs www.deluxe-ent.com
Hollywood Digital www.hollydig.com
Kodak www.kodak.com
MWP Editorial
Moonlight Design
NATPE www.natpe.org
National Screen Service www.natscreen.com
Pacific Title www.pactitle.com
PROMAX www.promax.org
POP www.popstudios.com
Sony www.spe.sony.com
Think New Ideas www.thinkinc.com
Todd AO www.toddao.com
West Glen Communications www.westglen.com
Westwood One www.westwoodone.com
Yahoo! Inc. www.yahoo.com
Filmmakers for
Conservation
http://www.filmmakersforconservation.org
10 The Square, Pentewan, St. Austell, Cornwall PL26 6DA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1726 843929 (UK)
UK - Paul Mahoney -
paulm@filmmakersforconservation.org
USA - Justine Schmidt -
justine@filmmakersforconservation.org
Canada - Caroline Underwood -
caroline@filmmakersforconservation.org
Costa Rica - Elda Brizuela -
elda@filmmakersforconservation.org
Asia - Chris Dickinson -
chris@filmmakersforconservation.org
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Environmental Filmmaking Tips
From:
http://www.glasseyepix.com/html/low.html
Low Impact Filmmaking
A Practical Guide to Environmentally Sound Film and Video Production
By Larry Fessenden
larry@glasseyepix.com
(Lives and works in New York...)
As environmental concerns become increasingly urgent, people from all
walks of life are looking for ways to be part of the solution instead of
the problem.
This essential guide gives producers and production managers access to
environmentally conscientious and money saving resources that can help
reduce wastefulness in the film business.
The book includes a discussion of major environmental and animal rights
issues as well as a Forward which places the issues in historical
perspective.
Written by filmmakers for filmmakers, this 100 page illustrated guide
offers suggestions about every aspect of a film or video project, and
includes a candid description of the real life application of these ideas
through notes on the making of the independent feature NO TELLING, which
was shot in upstate New York in the summer of 1990.
In a fruitless effort to raise uncomfortable issues about waste in the
film business, Fessenden wrote this book with Michael Ellenbogen to
discuss environmental approaches to film production. Distributed by Terre
Verde in New York, its observations are still relevant. Thanks to Scott
MacCauley for giving it the nod in FILMMAKER MAGAZINE back in '92. Though
the environmentally sound bindings are starting to biodegrade, Copies are
still available!
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From:
http://www.tve.org/earthreport/archive/doc.cfm?aid=794
Six European environmental film festivals have joined to form a network at
the initiative of the Copenhagen-based Royal Awards Foundation, associated
with the European Environment Agency. Close co-operation and an intensive
mutual exchange are to help environmental issues films, film-makers and
festivals to raise their profile. One step along this road is the festival
of festivals to be held in Berlin for the first time. It will provide a
broad platform to films that exhibit various artistic approaches to issues
involving the environment, nature and man (and the links between them that
are often dangerous).
Green Gongs
Billed as the biggest and the best, the Ecomove film festival which takes
place in Berlin, aims to showcase the cream of environmental films from
all over the world and bring together filmmakers from widely different
backgrounds. From documentary to fiction, shorts to features, nearly one
hundred films were screened at the Sony Centre in Berlin last December.
But this was very much a test case for all involved. Earth Report asks did
the partnership between sponsoring corporations and the environmental film
community work?
'Greenwash or Genuine Environmental Commitment?
Big global corporations like Sony and Volkswagen profess to strong
environmental commitments. They both have their own sponsored awards at
Ecomove. But is investing in a green film festival just good public
relations or a genuine pledge to spread the environmental message?
The 'greens' claim one problem is that sponsors don't want to focus on the
ecological problems. Instead they prefer to talk about the positive
results of their own environmental commitments, and gloss over the larger
issues at stake.
But it's a question of getting the message out, and the sponsors are
essential in bringing the environmental message to the mainstream public.
The Festival of Festivals
The Ecomove festival brings together the best of six European film
festivals: Ambiente from Portugal, Green Vision from Russia, Oekomedia
from Germany, Prix Leonardo from Italy, Ekofilm from the Czech Republic,
and Envirofilm from Slovakia.
Ecomove will be held every two years in Berlin, and in intervening years
it will go on tour internationally.
Each film category has three nominations, pre-selected from over 200
contenders. The panel of judges includes famous filmmakers and hi-powered
environmental politicians.
And the Winner is...
"With the voices of children we have to bring these environmental
problems to adults because adults can't do everything themselves without
the help of children": The children's animation film Pontas - Black,
Black Sea from Georgia was made at a summer long workshop of a hundred
schoolchildren and their teacher.It was awarded best film in the open
category for its efforts to involve children in environmental issues.
"Steve completely forgot that he was 25 meters under water,
surrounded by wild predatory creatures": The Czech film The Moray Eel
- An Ugly Beauty portraying the unusual friendship between a diver and a
Moray Eel - a fish known to be brutal, ugly, and malicious. It won the
award for best documentary because, as the jusy says, it changes a common
perspective and addresses common fears of the unknown.
"Its impossible to feel what they must have gone through":
Bhopal Express is an Indian film about one of the most tragic man made
disasters of all time. In 1984 gas leaked from a tank of methyl isocyanate
at a plant in Bhopal, Madya Pradesh, killing or disabling thousands of
people. The story story is seen through the eyes of a newly-wed couple,
and was awarded the prize for best fiction.
"We must teach the young people to love and respect nature...":
The new Sony Award donated by Sony and Columbia Tristar awarded for young
and refreshing films that offer a new perspective to each and everyone in
their personal surroundings, films that motivate and encourage engagement
for the future went to Tommy and the Wildcat from Finland.
...and the others
"In the beginning it was a miracle, it solved a lot of problems, it
changed the health picture of the world...": Danish documentary The
Miraculous Poison looks at DDT, the world's most notorious pollutant. This
film is a trip through time and describes how DDT changed from a blessing
into a curse.
"...it was the most frightening horrific film I think I've probably
ever seen.": UK documentary Designer Babies was widely discussed at
the festival. Separating science and science fiction, it explores one of
the most disturbing possibilities that science offers us: the genetic engineering
of humans.
"We need to stop this logging before the logging destroys us...the
men don't understand this.": Since the Company Came, an Australian
documentary set in the South Pacific, looks at how a traditional community
copes with the changes brought about by a foreign company logging their
land. the new regime of money and power structures affect the traditional
structures, and in particular it challenges the matriarchal power
structures based on land ownership.
"I didn't want to make a film about what the politicians think about
this conflict. I wanted to show how people live there, how they work, how
they suffer, what deprives them of their economic opportunities.":
Cashmere, Kashmir, a Swiss documentary, traces the Kashmir fibre from its
producers through to the impact it has on the climate and wars. An attempt
to look at this war torn region from the grassroots perspective, it paints
a picture of a community left out of the globalized market.
Possible Partnerships?
Barbara Dubach of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
expresses that "...what we're all aiming for, whether its business,
governments, citizens, NGOs, is quality of life. The question is how we
achieve quality of life, and that can be through innovation, but also
through partnerships, different organizations working together."
There's no doubting both the environmentalists and the corporate sponsors
at Ecomove all want quality of life. But will they agree on the means to
get there? Watch out for Ecomove 2002!
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