Movie Showings

From WolfWikis

For the Earth Week we are holding a Video Showcase, higlighting interesting Environmental Films. An EXTREMELY useful website for Educational Environmental Films is Bullfrog Films at [bullfrogfilms.com]. I found some exceptional films that seem very informative and entertaining. Some films are short in length and pertain to similar topics so maybe some of the nights we can show a double feature.

• Risky Business (24 minutes)- genetically engineered plants and animals
• Hormone Imposters (47 min)- endocrine disrupting chemical damage
• Up Close and Toxic (45 min)-alarming levels of pollutants inside homes
• Cultivating Change (50 min)- growing and cooking food
• The Air We Breathe (49 min)- connection of respiratory diseases to pollution and urban sprawl
• Wake-Up Freddy (21 min)-path energy takes to get to the home
• Turning Down the Heat (46 min)- renewable energy sources and energy conservation

I was hoping to find a film on Drought or Water Conservation. But I could not locate a good one. This topic is extremely important and relevant to Raleigh's situation and the future.

• The Story of Stuff found at [lifeonterra.com]

Feature Length Films

• Trashed- Problems with Landfilling [Amazon.com] <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!
• An Inconvenient Truth- Al Gore's Documentary
• Emerald Forest- pertaining to depletion of Rain Forests in Amazon [Amazon.com]
• A Civil Action- with John Travolta about how pollution from industry has caused leukemia in children
• The China Syndrome- with Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Micheal Douglas, about Fear for Nuclear Meltdown
• Erin Brocovich- An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
• The 11th Hour- The 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment; how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course.

Check out [greenplanetfilms.org/], some films found there include:

• Indigenous Peoples: humane and environmental sustainability- 45 minute video documentary highlighting the thoughts and proposals of the Indigenous Peoples in Johannesburg at the World Summit for Sustainable Development.
• ANCIENT FUTURES: Learning from Ladakh- 60 min. ...then came development. Now in Leh, the capital, one finds pollution and divisiveness, inflation and unemployment, intolerance and greed. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from modernisation.
• A Convenient Truth- How Brazil is evolving the Sustainable City