Archive
Finalist
02.14.24
Wild Hope: Does Nature Have Rights?
In Ecuador, conservationists invoke the constitutional rights of nature to save areas of immense biodiversity. WILD HOPE is a series that highlights the conservation changemakers who are sparking new hope for the future of our planet. Screened at the Saturday Shorts Program on April 6, 2024...
02.14.24
JOJO – A Toad Musical
"JOJO" celebrates a musical portrait of JoJo Nyaribo, a young nature enthusiast and wildlife advocate, as he explores the world of the Western Toad and its numerous threats. This story beautifully intertwines Jojo's love for nature with his quest to create awareness of a devastating...
02.14.24
The Quest to Save Parasites
You may have seen a "Save the Whales" t-shirt, but "Save the Parasites? There’s a vast unseen world of parasites that have evolved along with wildlife – they are the "dark matter" of ecosystems. Now, wildlife parasites face a "double jeopardy" thanks to threats to...
02.14.24
Daughter of the Sea
Battling deep depression, Jaeyoun returns to her roots on the island of Marado, South Korea, to visit her family of female free divers known as haenyeo. To her surprise, she finds a connection to nature and her ancestors that saves her life. Screened at the WILD...
02.14.24
Deep Trouble
Deep sea mining is a serious threat to the ocean's ecosystem and climate stability. In a poetic dialogue between oceanographer ‘Her Deepness’ Sylvia Earle and renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Deep Trouble explains how the ocean creates oxygen, sequesters carbon, regulates climate, and makes life possible...
02.14.24
Batsies
Two female Texas State University wildlife researchers work against the clock to find a way to save Texas’s delicate — and crucial — bat population, while breaking barriers of their own. Q&A with Director Liz Unger, Hosted by Rebecca Martin Screened at the Saturday Morning Program on...
02.14.24
Our Waters
"Our Waters" follows the community of Frenchman Bay as they take a stand to protect Maine’s most precious resource against industrial salmon farms. Screened at the Saturday Shorts Block on April 6, 2024 at The Explorers Club...
02.14.24
Vanishing Oasis
The Great Salt Lake provides for 10 million migratory birds every year, but if the lake continues to shrink, starving birds will line its shores and toxic dust storms will cloud Salt Lake City’s skies. Can Utahns prioritize public and environmental health over short term...
03.10.21
Jago: A Life Underwater
An 80-year-old elder of the maritime Bajau people tells the tale of his life spear-fishing in the depths of the sea from the porch of his stilted bamboo hut, while preparing for one last hunting trip. Younger family members and friends stand in for him in dazzlingly cinematic reenactments...
01.10.23
Golden Monkeys: Braving the Impossible
Shot in the inaccessible wildernesses of Central Asia, this episode from the series "Wild Empire" follows the perilous existence of a family of golden-snub-nosed monkeys throughout a year to capture their captivating and rarely seen behavior. Screened at the Friday Evening Program on March 3, 2023...
12.12.19
The Biggest Little Farm
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the...
01.10.23
Walking on Clouds
This short film shows the highline crossing between two air balloons, performed at the end of 2021, in the city of Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil, by athlete Rafael Bridi, achieving the highest highline record in the world by the Guinness Book. Screened at the Opening...
10.22.21
Tigre Gente
A Bolivian park ranger and a young Hong Kongese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America. Along the way, they grapple with questions of empathy, responsibility, and bridging a cultural gap to prevent the...
01.10.23
Walking Two Worlds
19 year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, and her mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, take a stand to defend their sacred homelands and way of life while breaking barriers in Indigenous representation. Q&A with Director Maia Wikler Screened at the Saturday Morning Program on March 4, 2023 at The Explorers Club...
01.10.23
The Territory
The Territory provides an immersive look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people (who partially shot the film) against the encroaching deforestation brought by illegal settlers and an association of non-native farmers in the Brazilian Amazon. Q&A with Director Alex Pritz and Impact Producer...