Posts tagged Documentory
ecoFilms: For The Love of Water (FLOW)
0Summary: “Flow” builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.The film questions the very nature of water and our relation to it. It shows how local action can challenge giant corporations, and how the privatization of water has jeopardized the way of life for More >
ecoFilms: 11th Hour
01 year ago
Summary: “The 11th Hour” is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. It documents the cumulative impact of these actions upon the planet’s life systems and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity. With the help of over fifty of the world’s most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai,“The 11th Hour” documents the grave problems facing the planet’s life systems including, Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, depletion of the oceans’ habitats and their causes rooted in human activity. The film also provides more than a few suggestions and solutions for redeeming our wasteful ways and repairing our damaged planet.
Interesting Fact: This film is Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Quote: “When we all talk about “saving the environment” in a way it’s misstated
ecoFilms: DIRT the Movie
01 year ago
Summary: It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and under appreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. It talks about how our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. The Movie brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It offers a vision of a sustainable relationship between Humans and Dirt through profiles of the global visionaries who are determined to repair the damage we’ve done before it’s too late.
Interesting Fact: It was inspired by the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan.
Quote: “Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.”
Running time: 86 mins
Date of Release: 2009
Theme: soil, wonders of soil, degradation of soil, the effects
ecoFilms: AGE OF STUPID
01 year ago
Summary: The Age of Stupid explores the critical threshold we’re at in history – when, we were aware that we were destroying the planet, but did little to stop it. The film focuses on six narrative human stories: an Indian entrepreneur bent on setting up a low-budget airline, an octogenarian French mountain guide who has witnessed the swift erosion of the glacier he loves, a Katrina hurricane victim and oil worker, a Nigerian woman and the effects of Shell on the country, an Iraqi family that are now refugees in Jordan, and a British wind-energy developer who tries to persuade other people in his village to support the construction of local turbines
Interesting Fact: For the premiere, filmmakers went all out to create a green environment. The event was held in a special tent in and was dubbed “the world’s first solar-powered film premiere.”
Quote: “We could
Butterfly – Documentary review
11 year ago
Butterfly is a documentary by Doug Wolens featuring around Julia Butterfly Hill who is an activist & environmentalist. The theme of the film revolves around when on:
“December 10, 1997 Julia Hill climbed an ancient redwood tree in Northern California, preventing it & the surrounding hillside from being clear-cut by Pacific Lumber.”
“She vowed not to come down until the tree was saved.”
Luna is180 feet high & about a1000 years old & thus becomes the symbol for the movement. Julia lived in Luna for two years (coming down on December 18, 1999 after an agreement which secured the buffer area around Luna), in a six by eight platform constructed by the team of the organization Earth First. Climbing up Luna started off as an individual’s act but it turned into a civil disobedience movement.
Earth First’s three core principles include being bio-centric, no compromise in the More >
