Thursday | September 19 | 4:30 PM
Dust Rising • Forest on Fire • Scenes From a Dry City • Grizzly Country • Water Town
Natural resources - and how they’re managed - are inherently political. So who should decide, and why? In this engaging and eye-opening group of shorts, prepare to be moved, maybe even thinking about the world a little differently. Q&A to follow.
Dust Rising • Forest on Fire • Scenes From a Dry City • Grizzly Country • Water Town
Natural resources - and how they’re managed - are inherently political. So who should decide, and why? In this engaging and eye-opening group of shorts, prepare to be moved, maybe even thinking about the world a little differently. Q&A to follow.
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Dust Rising | 26m
Director: Lauren Schwarzmann You probably don’t think much of dust – but those tiny specks actually have astonishing power. This documentary takes you on an eye-opening journey with dust: from the microscope, to California’s Central Valley, to the Sierra Nevada, and all the way to the global scale. You’ll discover that dust can be life-giving, and deadly. |
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Forest on Fire | 17m
Director: Reed Harkness When a fire began at Oregon’s Eagle Creek last fall, more than 150 hikers found themselves trapped by fast-moving flames that would eventually burn more than 40,000 acres of the historic Columbia River Gorge. It was a traumatic fire, both for those who evacuated and those who stayed—and it was all started by a lit firework, thrown by a careless teenager. |
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Scenes From a Dry City | 13m
Director: Francois Verster & Simon Wood Gripped by a fear of drought, ‘SCENES FROM A DRY CITY’ uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town’s complex social fabric. |
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Grizzly Country | 11m
Director: Ben Moon During his time as a Green Beret medic in the Vietnam War, eco-warrior and author Doug Peacock looked at a map of the Montana and Wyoming wilderness for comfort. He vowed that if he got out alive, he would go see those wild places for himself. Peacock not only visited, but spent years in solitude there, filming his only companions — grizzly bears. |
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Water Town | 23m
Director: Maya Craig Since its founding as a mill town in 1897, the City of Weed, California, has piped pristine water from a spring on Mount Shasta directly to its homes. But the spring is on land owned by the timber company that claims the water right – and says it will no longer provide water to the town. |