Event

Environmental Program

The films included in this program are:

YOUNG ICE
Derek Hallquist
Leading scientists join forces with the local Inuit community in Barrow, Alaska to bear witness to shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Circle. Stunningfootage captures the effects of climate change in the planet's coldest region. (USA, 2014, 15 min., Documentary Short)

SPAT! BRINGING OYSTERS BACK TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
Sandy Cannon-Brown
What will it take to bring back one of the Bay's most ecologically important organisms? Can we manage the wild fishery sustainably? Should watermen become farmers of the Bay? Culture and ecology clash in this captivating story about one of the Bay's most important critters. (USA, 2014, 30 min., Documentary Short)

AMAZON GOLD
Reuben Aaronson
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, Amazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey. Two journalists, Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster, travel along Peru's Madre de Dios River to reveal the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally minedgold. Once a place of extraordinary beauty, surreal images of a hellish wasteland drift by in the wake of devastation. Will this priceless repository of biodiversity be lost forever as a result humankind's toxic greed? (USA, 2011, 53 min., Documentary Feature)