Professional Documents
Culture Documents
film guide
U.N.
finalist
Forumprofiles
on Forests Secretariat
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2011 International Year of Forests
The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film The 2011 Festival will take place
Festival is committed to natural history October 3-7 at the beautiful Jackson Lake
programming around the world to raise Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
the appreciation and awareness of wild
creatures, cultures and habitats through
the innovative use of media.
Executive Committee
Michael Rosenfeld, Chair
Biennially since 1991, we have hosted an President, National Geographic Television
unparalleled international film industry
Neil Harraway, Vice-Chair
conference that attracts over 650 leaders Director of Production & Marketing
in nature and environmental filmmaking, Natural History New Zealand, Ltd.
science, conservation and media. The
Chuck Lee, Treasurer
JHWFF film competition honors the Technology Manager Broadcast and Cinema Lenses
world’s finest nature films, with 18 Fujifilm Optical Devices USA, Inc.
prestigious awards chosen from over
Ellen Windemuth
700 entries, last year. Our year-round Managing Director, Off the Fence Productions
outreach and educational programming
empowers stewardship and a connection William Grant
Director of Science Natural History & Features
to nature. Programs, NATURE/WNET.ORG
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jackson hole wildlife film festival
Board of Directors
Stephen Reverand, Development & Production Stella Cha, Director, Film and Video
Discovery Channel The Nature Conservancy
FINAL JURY
Jan McAlpine is the Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat,
having held that position since November 2008. She has a long history in
international forest policy initiatives and negotiations and has been part of the
UNFF and its predecessors for 15 years. She has been integral in shaping important
actions, decisions and resolutions, notably as a negotiator on issues relating to
international forest and timber trade at the White House, and as the Senior Advisor
and lead for Forests in the U.S. Department of State.
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film synopsis
judges
Preliminary Judges
Forest facts
Deforestation accounts for 12 to 20 percent
of the global greenhouse gas emissions that
contribute to global warming.
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Forest facts
Some 80 percent of the people living in
developing countries depend on non-wood
forest products, such as fruits and herbs, for
their primary health and nutritional needs.
Forest facts
The area of planted forest is increasing –
it now accounts for 7% of total forest area.
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film list
Forest facts
Around 10 million people are employed in forest
management and conservation.
This is my Forest
Africa’s Green Heart 32
Amazon Alive: Forest of the Future 35
Animal River Challenge: Day of the Caiman 36
Burning Bright 37
Community Trees: A Living Investment 40
Conflict Tiger 40
Fire Memories 44
Latin America’s Green Heart 55
Monteverde Now: Voices from the Frontlines 58
of Change
My Forestry 59
North-Eastern Diaries 60
Oka Jeni: Cameroon’s Forest Peoples Speak Out 60
Ora E. Anderson: The Soul of the Woods 61
River Dog 65
Seeing Red 68
The Incomappleux 73
Voices of the Forest: Thailand 78
Forest facts
80% of the world’s forests are publicly owned,
but ownership and management of forests
by communities, individuals and private
companies is on the rise.
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best of festival
best of festival
Competing for the title of ‘nature’s oddest couple,’ the sycamore fig tree and the
miniscule fig wasp share a curious and important co-dependency—a relationship
whose influence extends out widely across the African bush and supports hundreds
of plants and animals.
Shot with extraordinary care and patience, the film reveals a surprising tale of
survival within the microcosm of a single fig. The filmmakers spent more than two
years documenting the intimate details of fig wasps living, mating and dying inside
figs. Despite being one of the smallest creatures, this story of the wasps proves to
be as large as the grandeur of Africa itself.
This film was a finalist in the 360° All Things Forest category. This film was a finalist in the Forest Hero category.
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special jury awards
This film was a finalist in the Shorts category. This film was a finalist in the Shorts category.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have your Did you know that most toilet paper comes from trees?
home torn down around you and destroyed? It’s a horrible Switch Today is a public service announcement about
thought, but that’s exactly what is happening in forests the environmental impact of toilet paper. The project
around the world. With an area of forest the size of a was created using frame-by-frame stop-motion
football field being destroyed every two seconds, animation over approximately six months. Only recycled
endangered species such as gorillas, orangutans and toilet paper was used in the making of this piece.
chimpanzees are at risk of extinction within our lifetimes.
This Greenpeace film shows all too clearly what this
means. Told with the voices of Sir David Attenborough,
Ewan McGregor and actor Andy Serkis, it is a stark
reminder of what we stand to lose if we aren’t able to
save our ancient forests now, while there is still time.
Forest facts
The area of planted forest is increasing – it now
accounts for 7% of total forest area.
This is My Forest
Awarded to the film that tells the most moving personal expression
or story of the forest.
category winner:
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finalist profiles - this is my forest
Whitebark pines are one of the most ecologically Forests are vital for the 1.7 billion local and indigenous
important tree species living in the western U.S. people who depend on them for their livelihoods and
Thriving on cold, windy, rocky mountaintops where sometimes for their very survival. By placing local
few other plants or animals survive, these trees can people at the heart of forest decision-making and forest
live more than a thousand years, their trunks becoming management, community forestry can make forest
twisted and gnarled over time, their highest branches management a reality. In many countries community
reaching heights of 70 feet or more. Half this country’s forestry has successfully reversed forest destruction
whitebarks live in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and helped harness the full value of forest benefits.
inhabiting its plateaus, ridgelines, and mountain flanks History shows that failures in forest protection and
above 8,500 feet. With their outspread canopies, biodiversity most often occur where local people’s
whitebarks shade the snow in spring and summer, needs, aspirations, skills and knowledge are ignored.
making possible the protracted runoff upon which
wildlife, fisheries, and human agriculture depend. This six-minute short tells the story of the village of
They’re also a vital food source, feeding a broad collection Pred Nai, which is hailed as a success in fighting for
of birds, squirrels and grizzly bears. Tragically, the the right to manage their own forest, in this case one
whitebark pines of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Thailand’s last remaining mangrove ecosystems. The
are under attack. Due to a warmer climate, mountain locals took their battle to the highest level and drove out
pine beetles, which habitually infest lower elevation developers. Since then, the community has organized
lodgepole pine forests, have moved into higher to conserve its mangroves, with everyone taking part in
elevations. Lacking the chemical defenses that making the decisions that impact their livelihoods. Now,
lodgepoles have developed against the beetles and as the warriors of 20 years ago are passing the baton to
weakened by years of drought, whitebarks succumb a new generation, how do they see their future?
easily to the pests, which overwhelm the trees in large
numbers. Seeing Red is the dynamic story of the first
year of TreeFight, an initiative to inform the public of the
plight of the GYE’s whitebark pines and to search for
solutions to prevent their extinction.
Forest facts
Forests cover 31% of total land area.
Living Forests
Awarded to the film that most effectively showcases the rich diversity (including
forest biodiversity) and complexity of the forest ecosystem.
category winner:
Vast, primeval forests once stretched across almost On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 of the V.I Lenin
all of Northern Europe. In the 1st Century, the Roman Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station escaped all controls,
author Tacitus claimed the trees were so huge that the with devastating consequences. Nuclear radiation
legionnaires could ride underneath the roots. Centuries contaminated vast areas, creating an exclusion zone
of development have destroyed most of these forests, with a thirty mile radius around the plant. What is the
but some ancient woodland has survived. Green explanation for the apparent resurgence of wildlife in
monuments to a forgotten age, they offer a glimpse into Chernobyl? In the exclusion zone that is still forbidden
a distant world. In this high definition special, we delve to humans, in this strange world where radiation shifts
deep into these ecosystems and explore the complex with the seasons, zoologists and radioecologists are
balance of flora and fauna that maintains them. making surprising discoveries in this astonishing
open-air laboratory.
The temperate forest of Northern and Central Europe
is home to an abundance of wildlife. It is a stage for wild
dramas, from the fierce fighting of the boar, the rutting
season of the red deer, to the playing of the fox cubs
and the nocturnal hunt of the eagle owl. The full range
of large and charismatic mammals and birds are
captured in Kingdom of the Forest, with fascinating
insights into hunting, reproduction and other behavior.
Kingdom of the Forest also explores the hidden
elements of the woodlands, using long term time lapse,
super slow-motion and extreme macro photography.
Incredible footage of plant life through the seasons
brings the spectacular yearly cycle to life.
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Satoyama is a traditional rural environment where From Vienna, the Danube riverband forests extend to
people and nature co-exist in harmony. In Japan, the gates of Bratislava, linking the two capitals like a
there are still many places where people quietly live green ribbon and forming a unique wildlife habitat in the
with nature, making the most of the country’s unique heart of Europe. A few years ago a 36 kilometer section
natural environments. At the heart of such places are was turned into a national park that now protects the
Satoyama, small forested mountains blessed with rich last undeveloped stretch of the Danube and its
nature moderately modified by human hand. extensive riparian zone.
Praised as being a traditional rural landscape, In the forests along the Danube, the water’s power
Satoyama is by no means a relic of the past. It is filled is able to influence plant and animal habitats again.
with hints for a sustainable life in the future. Narrated Floods create new bluffs; new gravel banks and islands
by Sir David Attenborough, this episode takes us into a grow out of the current; forests are washed away and
mountain forest near Japan’s largest lake. Shot in created from scratch. This dynamic is a valuable
stunning high definition, it poetically portrays how the treasure, a living current no longer found anywhere
locals use traditional wisdom to manage the forest in else in Central Europe.
ways that allow them to harness nature for food without
ravaging the environment. It reveals, for example, The variety created as a result is outstanding, as is the
how the harvesting of mysterious trees for mushroom flora and fauna that live here: white-tailed eagles breed
cultivation encourages their new growth, how bees play in the woods, mud-minnows and pond turtles populate
a role in the cycle of life, and how the forest plays a the old arms of the river, beavers build their dams on the
part in the traditional rituals of ‘o-bon’, when the locals banks, and red deer raise their young in the underbrush.
honor the spirits of their ancestors. The Danube National Park is a hidden wilderness full
of beauty and drama and a refuge for an astounding
variety of flora and fauna.
Forest facts
Primary forests account for 36% of forest area.
category winner:
On China’s Loess Plateau, an area the size of Belgium Known as ‘the place where Noah left his Ark,’ 4,000
has been successfully restored over ten years. A barren, square kilometers of lush floodplains in central
brown landscape has been brought back to life; a people Mozambique were packed with wild animals. But 15
entrenched in back-breaking poverty now work, farm, years of civil war has taken a heavy toll and many
herd and live in a functioning, green ecosystem where species were almost completely wiped out for meat.
rainfall infiltrates, water is retained and crops are Today, conservationists battle to restore Gorongosa
readied for export. National Park to bring this oasis back to its former
glory—including perhaps the most ambitious restoration
Climate change is not an isolated, discrete challenge. It effort ever attempted, with elephants, hippos and
is, on the contrary, at the nexus of how human behavior scores of zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo being
is altering the fundamental cycles of nature that have relocated into the park.
enabled our planet to emerge over geologic time from
a cosmic boulder surrounded by toxic gases to the blue According to Gorongosa Restoration Foundation, this
planet teeming with life. Framed this way, new solutions film played a crucial role in convincing the Mozambique
emerge about how to address the challenge of climate government to expand the current boundaries of the
change. park to finally include Mount Gorongosa, the site of the
park’s most pristine but vulnerable rainforest and the
There is compelling evidence all around the world that if source of most of the park’s water. Heavy logging on
we understand ecosystem function then we don’t have to the mountain was wiping out the forest and threatening
degrade it. Research and documentation show that soil the future of the park and its wildlife. Without Mount
moisture, relative humidity, temperature, microclimates Gorongosa and its forests, many believed the park
and soil fertility are dynamic and human actions would have been beyond repair in 5-7 years. By
significantly determine whether these are lost or
including the mountain within the park’s jurisdiction,
accumulate. By understanding the scientific principles
that regulate the water cycle, biomass, biodiversity and the park stands a chance of once again becoming one
accumulated organic matter it is possible to maintain of the greatest national parks in the world.
healthy ecosystems.
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Scientists hang from the high canopy to monitor The question that lies at the heart of the ongoing
harpy eagle and macaw nests and track jaguars along debate about the world’s forests is whether we can
flooded rivers. Poison dart frogs and tropical plants are halt deforestation while still sustaining communities
analyzed as potential medicines, while brazil nuts, that depend on the forest for their livelihood. Is there
caiman and pirarucu fish are harvested sustainably another way? Could the selective harvesting and
to provide a more long-term livelihood for local selling of “goodwood,” wood from forests logged in an
communities. All rainforests are special, but the Amazon environmentally sensitive way, be part of the answer?
contains an unrivalled level of bio-diversity. It is, quite GoodWood looks at four forestry-based places where
simply, the greatest and most iconic rainforest on earth. communities are discovering – sometimes with help
It’s hard not to feel despair at the overwhelming images from surprising quarters – that it can be done.
of rainforest destruction. But, while documenting the
region’s remarkable wildlife for the making of Amazon From a village chair-making project in Honduras, to a
Alive, filmmaker Christian Baumeister witnessed a design school in Nelson, B.C., from a community-based
changing mood: a growing belief that the Amazon is forestry in Mexico, to more than 3,000 items made from
more valuable as a living forest than being stripped certified wood sold in a British retail chain, vital links
for its wood and minerals. Christian witnessed the are being made and important steps taken to keep
miraculous and diverse wildlife, landscapes and people people employed, and at the same time, help preserve
of Amazonia, and the threats to their existence, but the world’s forests.
also documented many of the creative solutions, which
could help secure the forest’s future. He feels a deep
responsibility to move people in the way he has been
moved, to spread understanding and to remind us that
the future of the Amazonian rainforest affects us all.
Forest facts
Over 1.6 billion people’s livelihoods
depend on forests.
Forest Hero
Awarded to the film that most effectively celebrates the work of individuals or groups
committed to forest research and sustainability.
category winner:
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Gabon’s Loango National Park is a mystical, unspoiled What does it take to save “the wild”? Nobody knows
place where the deep, dark jungle meets the sparkling better than George Schaller. You may not know who he
ocean. Part jungle, part swamp, and bordered by some is, but you do know what he has done; gorillas, tigers,
60 miles (100 kilometers) of Atlantic coastline, Loango lions, snow leopards, jaguars, pandas. Schaller was the
is a place where hippos play in the surf, whales come first to study them all.
to mate, giant sea turtles lay their eggs and elephants
roam the beach. Every inch of the park throbs with life, Now, after 50+ years in the field, he shares with us
from the smallest creatures to the biggest. some of the special moments he and his family have
encountered in their life in the field. We will see
The 385,00-acre (1,550 square kilometers) Loango is part “the wild” through the eyes of the world’s most
of an extensive national park system created by Gabon’s accomplished field biologist as we re-visit some of
President, Omar Bongo, last year in response to lobbying his early conservation successes and his present
from the Wildlife Conservation Society and a 2,000-mile day efforts, and meet the new generation of scientists
trek from northern Congo to the coast of Gabon by Wildlife who are following in his footsteps. Together, they will
Conservation Society biologist and National Geographic continue the effort to hold on to these last great pieces
Conservation Fellow, J. Michael Fay, to survey the land of wilderness. Nature’s Greatest Defender tells the
and find a way to protect its natural resources. Loango is a story about one man’s passionate fight to save our
wildlife preserve unlike any other on the African continent, world. It’s a film about his unwavering dedication to the
but poachers, illegal fishing boats and leaky oil rigs all incredible wildlife that we must continually struggle to
threaten its pristine nature. protect.
Forest facts
Forests are home to 80% of the world’s
terrestrial biodiversity.
category winner:
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Forest facts
Trade in forest products was estimated at
$327 billion in 2004.
Shorts
Awarded to the best forest film of less than 15 minutes in length.
category winner:
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Global Warming is creating a serious situation among Poland was in danger of losing its most precious
the forests of North America. With climate change ancient forest when Malgorzata Górska, a young
and warming temperatures over the past two decades, environmental activist, led the fight against the Polish
a new threat to our trees has emerged. The Pine government and the European Union to reroute a major
Beetle and pine trees have co-evolved together, but highway that would have jeopardized the wildlife,
with warmer winters, the pine beetle is now surviving waterways and vegetation in the pristine Rospuda
in astoundingly high numbers and are killing the Valley.
lodgepole, ponderosa and whitebark pine forests of the
west and Canada. Millions of acres of trees are dying Narrated by Robert Redford, this short film is part of
from the beetles and some estimates predict that by the Global Focus: The New Environmentalists series.
2012, 80% of our forests will be lost. Currently there is
no way to stop the beetle on a scale as large as this.
Forest facts
Forests are home to 300 million people
around the world.
Law of the Jungle features portraits of two passionate, In dry years, fires in California cost billions of dollars and
dedicated activists. Wanze Eduards & Hugo Jabini often result in lost lives. As fire crews rest from a rough
are true environmental heroes who have placed year and prepare for this one, KQED’s QUEST looks at
themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle an how the history of forest management could be feeding
intimidating adversary, the Chinese logging industry and today’s flames.
the government of Suriname. Their goal: safeguarding
Suriname’s natural timber resources from shortsighted
exploitation, while fighting for environmental justice.
Forest facts
Forests store more than 1 trillion tons of carbon.
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Forests are vital for the 1.7 billion local and indigenous As part of the celebrations marking the 125th
people who depend on them for their livelihoods and anniversary of national parks in Canada, student video
sometimes for their very survival. By placing local reporters worked in the 32 Parks Canada field units
people at the heart of forest decision-making and forest across the country, participating in the Parks’ “Greatest
management, community forestry can make forest Summer Job” program. They were tasked with producing
management a reality. In many countries community video reports on their experiences in the national
forestry has successfully reversed forest destruction parks, historic sites and marine conservation areas--a
and helped harness the full value of forest benefits. unique opportunity for student filmmakers to gain
History shows that failures in forest protection and valuable work experience while discovering and
biodiversity most often occur where local people’s sharing Canada’s cultural and natural heritage.
needs, aspirations, skills and knowledge are ignored.
Adam Greenberg’s film documents the people he came
This six-minute short tells the story of the village of to know in his time at Banff. On one extreme were the
Pred Nai, which is hailed as a success in fighting for summer students and new staff who were experiencing
the right to manage their own forest, in this case one the park’s environment for the first time. As they
of Thailand’s last remaining mangrove ecosystems. The tentatively explored the manicured trails, they struggled
locals took their battle to the highest level and drove out to understand and describe the significance of the
developers. Since then, the community has organized landscape. On the other hand were seasoned back-
to conserve its mangroves, with everyone taking part in country workers who knew the park more intimately,
making the decisions that impact their livelihoods. Now, living with a connection to the landscape that has been
as the warriors of 20 years ago are passing the baton to largely lost in contemporary society. Greenberg’s film
a new generation, how do they see their future? centers on this second group of people, but its message
is for the first group.
Forest facts
30% of forests are used for production of wood
and non-wood products.
In the summer of 2010, a group of 52 Weeks shows the seasonal 5x5: Voices of Change in the
professional and citizen scientists changes that the Amazon River Forests of Indonesia is a project
explored an area of forest suffers in its passage through the examining the human stories behind
surrounding the shores of Follensby Colombian territory. The phenomenon illegal logging and deforestation
Pond in the Adirondack Mountains of known as ‘flooding pulse’ shows in Indonesia. The film shows the
upstate New York. Their mission: to how the levels of the water present villagers themselves finding solutions
count and identify as many species variations of almost 12 meters to their problems and examines
of flora and fauna as possible in two between the high water and the low close-up their battle against
24-hour periods. These modern-day water seasons. The people of the deforestation.
scientists followed in the footsteps region cope with this phenomenon
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louis by developing forest management
Agassiz, James Stillman and other strategies in the floodplains and the
19th century intellectuals who river channels such as innovative
camped, explored and wrote about fishing and food cultivation practices.
the Follensby forest in 1858. Follow The film was created with the
our group as they search for violet participation of the local communities
variable dancers, bald eagles, moose, which filmed the changes in the
peppered moths and more, while water level for a whole year in
also contemplating the intersecting order to show the flooding pulse of
disciplines of science and philosophy. the Amazon River to the world and
demonstrate the vulnerability of this
region to climate change.
EXEC PRODUCER Stephanie Ratcliffe EXEC PRODUCER Carlos Rodriguez, DIRECTOR Paul Redman
CO-PRODUCER Jen Kretser Eugenia Ponce de Leon
PRODUCER Rick Godin PRODUCER Carlos Rodriguez
DIRECTOR Rick Godin DIRECTOR Mauricio Salcedo
CAMERA Rick Godin CAMERA Mauricio Salcedo
SOUND EDITOR Rick Godin SOUND EDITOR Mauricio Salcedo
EDITOR Rick Godin EDITOR Mauricio Salcedo
COMPOSER Andres Medina
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Ora Anderson, now 93, was a History of strenuous efforts shown Few have seen one of the
journalist living in southeastern by all layers of the society for world’s great acts of predation:
Ohio during the Great Depression. reforestation of degraded forest lands a wedge-tailed eagle catching a
In this oral history, he recalls the and its results. kangaroo. No one has ever filmed it.
environmental and social conditions This is the story of one man’s quest
that led to the establishment of the to shoot just such a shot. This man
Wayne National Forest and our is Simon Cherriman. A 21st century
evolving relationship with the land. bushman, Simon was raised in the
Along with historical photographs Perth Hills and has been climbing
and emotionally evocative music, trees, finding bird’s nests and going
Ora Anderson’s first-hand account into the bush his whole life. A wedged
gives life to a significant chapter Tale follows him as he chases eagles
of American History with calrity, across Western Australia, meeting a
hope and a uniquely Appalachian variety of wild animals along the way.
perspective.
EXEC PRODUCER Jean Andrew DIRECTOR Mehmet Sadik Aslankara CO-PRODUCER Adam Hermans,
PRODUCER Jean Andrews EDITOR Okan Cancin Simon Cherriman
DIRECTOR Jean Andrews, Steven Fetsch DIRECTOR Adam Hermans,
CAMERA Jean Andrews Simon Cherriman
SOUND EDITOR Steven Fetsch CAMERA Adam Hermans,
EDITOR Steven Fetsch Simon Cherriman
SOUND EDITOR Adam Hermans
EDITOR Adam Hermans
www.ohiolandscape.org
(740) 593 6968 +90 312 207 5676 (603) 778 8249
andrewj4@ohio.edu ybodabasi@cob.gov.tr adam.hermans@gmail.com
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Hosted by legendary conservationist A World Forest Adventure was Earth’s Green Heart is a trilogy of
and keyboardist for the Rolling produced as an introductory theater educational documentaries telling
Stones, Chuck Leavell, this visually presentation for the Discovery the story of solo journeys across
stunning film powerfully captures Museum at the World Forestry Center the three tropical forest blocks.
the contributions of family-owned in Portland, Oregon. The purpose Steve Taylor is a British independent
woodlands to American society. It will is to engage the audience in the filmmaker with African roots, who
build a strong understanding of all topics to be presented and to give set out to document deforestation in
the ways that these woods contribute them an introduction to the museum Sierra Leone and across the Congo
to our well being. From habitat for experience. The World Forestry Basin. Africa’s Green Heart is the
wildlife to drinking water to fighting Center is an educational NGO who’s dramatic result; it shows gorillas
climate change, all Americans have mission is to inform people about and rare wildlife and gives a voice
a stake in the health of these lands. the world’s forests and trees, and to hunters, loggers, conservationists
This film does a terrific job of bringing their importance to all life, in order to and the pygmies, traditional
that home through the eyes of real promote a balanced and sustainable custodians of the forest. It ends with
people. future. education of children and planting
seedlings to create the forests of
tomorrow.
PRODUCER Bob Williams, Kirk Jarvis PRODUCER Steve Heiser CO-PRODUCER Ian Redmond
DIRECTOR Kirk Jarvis DIRECTOR Steve Heiser PRODUCER Steve Oliver Taylor
CAMERA Kirk Jarvis DIRECTOR Steve Oliver Taylor
COMPOSER Chuck Leavell, EDITOR Nick Lyons, Gary Thomas
Evergreen Arts Recording, LLC,
Mark Urban, Kevin Macleod
www.aworkingforest.com
Known as ‘the place where Noah Gabon’s Loango National Park, With global concern for the
left his Ark,’ four thousand square created by Gabon’s President, Omar depletion of rainforests, we turn
kilometers of lush floodplains in Bongo, is a haven for hippos, whales, our attention to the technology
central Mozambique were packed giant sea turtles and elephants. of ‘Agroforestry,’ which can refer
with wild animals. But 15 years of civil Biologist, J. Michael Fay, and to simultaneous agriculture and
war took a heavy toll--many species photographer, Michael Nichols, go on forestry, or to a combination of forest
were almost completely wiped out for a mission to safeguard this wild Eden, preservation with farm management.
meat. Today, conservationists battle and National Geographic documents This technology encourages the
to restore the park to its former glory the challenges faced in preserving it. planting of tropical plants such as
and save it from present-day threats cacao, pepper and passion fruit
that could destroy it forever. together in the rain forests, and
enables management of farming
while sustaining forest ecosystems.
Harvested crops are processed and
exported to foreign markets. This
program explains the history and
technology of Agroforestry in the
Amazon .
EXEC PRODUCER Keenan Smart, EXEC PRODUCER David Royle PRODUCER Kenji Yokoo
Madeleine Carter PRODUCER Brian Harvey, DIRECTOR Hiromu Takemura
PRODUCER James Byrne Margaret Burnette
CAMERA Andy Brandy Casagrande IV, CAMERA Brian Harvey, Gil Domb
Bob Poole, Tim Wege EDITOR Salvetore Vecchio
EDITOR Christine Jameson Henry WRITER Stella Cha
WRITER Eleanor Grant, James Byrne
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In the mid-19th century, Mount The Membracide insect family is This is the story of how we have
Aigoual in southern France was a roughly unknown to us. However, struggled to make sense of the
bare rock. This is the story of two these neotropical treehoppers enormity and complexity of the
men who made it green again. This are probably the most astonishing Amazon rainforest. Using key animals
remarkable story follows the 19th creatures ever concocted by such as jaguar, leaf-cutting ant, giant
century example of a mountain’s Nature! Some people view them otter and the fresh-water stingray, we
reforestation, and of those who as nothing more than miniature show how we have turned past fears
were committed to it despite many aliens. Others consider them to be of the hostile and impenetrable jungle
challenges, often from their fellow true masterpieces of biodiversity. into an understanding of its unrivaled
man. In either case, with their weird and biodiversity. We discover that the
wonderful shapes, they are a source forest is not just the result of millions
of bewilderment for the scientific of years of evolution. Its richness
community. Be it a whim of nature stems from struggle, upheaval and a
or an extreme case of mimicry, with remarkable event--the geologic uplift
their impressive forehead protrusions, of the Andes--which changed the
they look like living sculptures. They course of the Amazon river itself.
resemble something straight out of
a Sci-Fi movie, and yet they are well
and truly real--tactile inhabitants of
the treetops and the various strata of
the tropical rainforest.
DIRECTOR Marc Khanne DIRECTOR Quincy Russell EXEC PRODUCER Joern Rover
CAMERA Thierry Maybon PRODUCER Christian Baumeister,
SOUND EDITOR Michel Bigeault Britta Kiesewetter, Light & Shadow and
EDITOR Michel Bigeault NDR Naturfilm Production for NDR,
WRITER Marc Khanne Arte, ORF, Parthenon Entertainment Ltd. /
National Geographic Channel
International & Animal Planet
DIRECTOR Christian Baumeister
CAMERA Christian Baumeister
EDITOR Stefan Canham, Stefan Reiss
WRITER Sue Western
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COMPOSER Oliver Heuss
Living Forests Issues & Solutions, 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
This is My Forest
The Amazon has long been hailed as It is hard not to feel despair at the For more than half of the U.S.
a biological treasure trove, but today overwhelming images of rainforest population, the Appalacian Trail is
we are finding out that this is only destruction. But while documenting less than a days drive away. Yet
part of its remarkable story. We meet the region’s remarkable wildlife for despite its proximity to many major
tarantulas and frogs, ants and trees, the making of Amazon Alive, Christian cities, like Atlanta and Boston,
which should be mortal enemies, Baumeister discovers that an few truly know the splendor of
but which are in fact friends. As we increasing respect for the Amazon’s this national treasure. National
learn more about how the forest natural wonders can translate into Geographic takes viewers off the
functions, we are gaining greater hope for the future. beaten track to discover the remote
respect for its intricate web of life and often unknown corners of the
and the people who live, dove-tailed, 5-million-step journey.
within it. Hidden among its tangle of
vegetation and waterways are clues
that far from being locked in the
stone-age, Amazonian tribes may
be the descendants of sophisticated
cultures that were once many
millions strong.
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PRODUCER Christian Baumeister, PRODUCER Christian Baumeister, Noah Morowitz
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National Geographic Channel National Geographic Channel WRITER Brian Armstrong
International & Animal Planet International & Animal Planet
DIRECTOR Christian Baumeister DIRECTOR Christian Baumeister
CAMERA Christian Baumeister CAMERA Christian Baumeister
EDITOR Stefan Canham, Stefan Reiss EDITOR Stefan Canham, Stefan Reiss
WRITER Sue Western WRITER Sue Western
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In the depths of the Amazon forest Ninety-eight percent of Madagascar’s Filmmaker and biologist, Rainer
north of Brazil, the Kayapo Indians mammals, including the rare silky Bergomaz, forges his way into the
are threatened by the project of a sifaka lemurs, exist nowhere else on rainforest of Guyana in search of
new hydro-electric dam on the Xingu Earth. Because of their white fur and rare species of animals and hits the
River. After thirty years of arguments, their amazing ability to fly through jackpot: the black caiman. In this
the dam that will drain their river is the forest, silky sifaka lemurs are installment, we follow Bergomaz as
now seen as a declaration of war by called ‘angels of the forest.’ But he examines the behavior of the black
the Indians. This is the story of the silkies are one of the world’s top caiman, probably the largest predator
young Kayapos who will confront twenty-five endangered primates of the Americas.
dangerous wasps to prove they are in the world. If silky sifakas were
able to endure pain and then capable to disappear from Madagascar,
to fight against those who destroy then silky sifakas would disappear
their forest. from our world. International
scientists and local Malagasy
conservationists are fighting for the
survival of this exceptional species
and its irreplaceable habitat. Ph.D.
candidate, Erik Patel, is at the
forefront of these struggles.
India’s North East has a rich heritage In 2010, Wyoming experienced an This film poem is about learning how
of sacred natural sites that have been unusual fall with temperatures in to observe and work with nature
preserved for generations because the 70s and a fairly new autumn to manage a small woodland in
of the faith of local communities. palette. In addition to the golden rural Ireland to create a thriving,
Today, science is recognizing these aspen leaves, Wyoming has seen sustainable, mixed species forest
sites as rare hubs of biodiversity. The an increase in the incidence of red for the future, that is good for
film captures the beautiful traditions pines. Our evergreens have been biodiversity, our climate and for our
of the Khasis of Meghalaya, the victimized by the pesky pine beetle local needs. Much of Ireland’s forest
Meteis of Manipur and the Vaishnav and this threat to our forest has knowledge is long since lost and
monasteries of Assam and brings fueled a song by Wyoming’s Oatmeal gone. Cathy’s work highlights Close
to the forefront the ancient and Stumble. to Nature, permanent, non clear-fell
increasingly fragile link between forestry.
human cultures and biodiversity.
DIRECTOR Rishu Nigam PRODUCER Ali Grossman EXEC PRODUCER Cathy Fitzgerald
CAMERA Rishu Nigam DIRECTOR Ali Grossman PRODUCER Cathy Fitzgerald
WRITER Rishu Nigam CAMERA Ali Grossman DIRECTOR Cathy Fitzgerald
EDITOR Ali Grossman CAMERA Cathy Fitzgerald
SOUND EDITOR Cathy Fitzgerald
EDITOR Cathy Fitzgerald
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WRITER Christopher LaCasse Jonathan Kloberdanz, Krysia Carter-Giez, WRITER Antoine Bamas, Luc Riolon
William Evans, Greg Poschman
EDITOR Jonathan Kloberdanz
WRITER William Evans
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In the Children of the Amazon, In this short film produced by the They are living giants, one of Earth’s
Brazilian filmmaker, Denise Zmekhol, Wildlife Conservation Society, Dr. largest and oldest trees. Some tower
travels to the heart of the Amazon James Deutsch explains what we more than 350 feet high, taller than
in search of the Indigenous children can do to curb the world’s largest the Statue of Liberty; some may
she photographed 15 years ago. Part source of carbon dioxide emissions: have been seedlings when Jesus
road-movie, part time-travel, this deforestation. In the next 24 hours, was born. Yet, these natural legends
story of transformation and resilience deforestation will release as much still shroud centuries-old secrets.
reveals how we are all children of the CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million In a major National Geographic
Amazon, breathing the same air and people flying from London to New cross-platform event, which includes
sharing the same fate. York. Stopping the loggers is the the October, 2009 cover story
fastest and cheapest solution to for the magazine, we reveal the
climate change and this short film little-explored environment of the
hopes to educate and inspire action. redwoods using high-tech aerial laser
surveys and breathtaking imagery.
EXEC PRODUCER Denise Zmekhol PRODUCER Natalie Cash EXEC PRODUCER Jonathan Halperin
PRODUCER Denise Zmekhol DIRECTOR Luke Groskin PRODUCER John Rubin, James Donald
DIRECTOR Denise Zmekhol CAMERA Luke Groskin DIRECTOR John Rubin, James Donald
CAMERA Antonio Luis Mendes EDITOR Luke Groskin CAMERA Andrew Shillabeer
SOUND EDITOR Jim LeBrecht EDITOR Stephanie Munroe
EDITOR Jennifer Chinlund WRITER John Rubin
WRITER Michael J. Moore, Ellen Bruno,
Olivia Crawford, Denise Brostom
COMPOSER Badi Assad,
Nana Vasconcelos
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Scientists provide detailed An environmental thriller exploring The Cotton-Top Tamarin is endemic to
explanations about the services the increasingly confrontational Colombia’s Caribbean coast and is at
community trees provide, and relations between tigers and people the brink of extinction. Habitat loss is
citizens speak on a more personal in the forests of the Russian Far East. not the only major threat. The social
level about how trees have improved The film follows the work of Yuri problems of this picturesque region
their lives and the livelihood of their Trush, an expert tiger tracker called in are determining conservation efforts
communities. to deal with a notorious series of tiger and the thirst for development may
attacks. From the aftermath of this eventually erase the species from
epic confrontation, the film emerges the planet. Through this compelling
as a parable which challenges the journey you’ll meet the Cotton-Top
cosy illusions of the traditional “big Tamarin and get an understanding
cat” natural history by setting the on why conservation isn’t easy in
animal’s precarious situation against developing countries.
the pressing needs of human survival.
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Down in south central Oregon, the Rising global temperatures have As a hybrid of natural history
Lakeview Stewardship Group is created warmer winters in North documentary and political
working to restore the 500,000 acre America. This condition has allowed commentary, this film explores the
Lakeview Federal Stewardship the pine beetle to survive through complexity of fire management and
Unit in Oregon’s Fremont-Winema the winter and complete its life cycle fire ecology of the Northern Rockies.
National Forest. The group is while attacking pine forests such Narrated by biologists, fire managers,
helping the Forest Service redefine as the lodge pole, ponderosa and politicians and citizens, Disturbance
its land management goals in light white bark pine. Millions of acres of speaks to homeowners, taxpayers
of new scientific findings and trees throughout the western US and and anyone who cares about the
societal priorities as part of the Canada are dying from the beetles diversity of life on earth.
restoration process is identifying the and some estimates predict we will
connections people make with the lose 80% of our pine forests by 2012.
forest, including recreation and jobs.
Cultivating Common Ground is their
story.
PRODUCER Andrea Imler EXEC PRODUCER Michael Pellegatti PRODUCER Jeremy Roberts
DIRECTOR John Waller PRODUCER Michael Pellegatti DIRECTOR Jeremy Roberts
CAMERA Michael Pellegatti CAMERA Jeremy Roberts
SOUND EDITOR Michael Pellegatti EDITOR Jeremy Roberts
EDITOR Michael Pellegatti
WRITER Lance Schelvan
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Frustrated by the soulless routine Senegal’s foresters convince the This film highlights how the
world he is shackled to and dogged villagers of Daru Fippu to ‘manage’ customary use of biodiversity by
by a need to find meaning in their forests to generate income traditional resource users in the
everything, the life of advertising for their community. The foresters Sundarbans mangrove forest is vital
executive Callum Cutter is thrown speak of conservation, but insist to the conservation and sustainable
into poetic chaos when he meets on production. They speak of use of this wetland of international
the free-spirited French seductress, participation, but use villagers as importance, including a UNESCO
Malika, who promises to change his labor. They speak of development World Heritage Site and a RAMSAR
life forever--providing he keeps her but block villagers from lucrative site. However, traditional knowledge
identity a secret. markets. When the sympathetic and customary use are being ignored
forest project director, Mr. Mbaxan, by the Bangladesh Government
tells the poorly paid villagers of the and forest peoples are being
high urban price of their product, excluded from decision-making and
charcoal, the villagers are shocked. management of the forest. The film
Mbaxan tries to help the destitute calls for respect and recognition of
villagers gain access to the market, traditional resource users’ knowledge
but is stymied at every turn. The and practices and a participatory
village of Daru Fippu federates with approach to the management of the
nearby villages to stand up to the Sundarbans as a contribution to the
foresters’ double talk and to claim implementation of the Convention on
their rights. This resarch-based film Biological Diversity (CBD), as well as
is a composite history of two forestry respecting forest peoples’ dignity and
programs in Senegal. securing their livelihoods and future.
EXEC PRODUCER Kylie Maron-Vallorani, CO-PRODUCER Jesse Ribot PRODUCER Jim Wickens
Yoram Halberstam, Neil Harris DIRECTOR Papa Faye, Jesse Ribot
PRODUCER Jonnie Hurn, Paul Hills CAMERA Pierre Lecompte,
DIRECTOR Paul Hills Abdoulaye Diaw, Emeu Dieng
CAMERA Roger Bonnici SOUND EDITOR Jay Eychaner,
SOUND EDITOR Nicolas Le Messurier Shahzad Ismaily
EDITOR Caroline Richards EDITOR Emeu Dieng
WRITER Jonnie Hurn WRITER Jesse Ribot
COMPOSER Marcel Barsotti
The largest rainforest on Earth, The compelling story and scientific The traditional use of fire by
expanding on the equator in the adventures of the intrepid 19th shepherds managing grazing land
Amazon, is the cradle for the most century Scottish botanist and plant and its importance in Portugal as a
abundant biota in the world that has hunter, David Douglas, is told in this tool in forest management today.
been evolving for eons. This program multi-national production. Tap his
shows how this submerged forest is roots in Scotland and England; trek
a paradise for wildlife and a driving along through Oregon, Washington,
force for evolution. California and British Columbia;
sweep across the Canadian Rockies
to remote York Factory on Hudson
Bay; and ponder his mysterious
final destination on the Big Island of
Hawaii. The film focuses on Douglas’
groundbreaking contributions to
science; the Douglas fir and many
more plant and animal species are
named after him. The film details
his relations within the multicultural
community of the Hudson’s Bay
Company and the Indian tribes
he visited across Western North
America.
EXEC PRODUCER Shinichi Murata, PRODUCER Lois Leonard DIRECTOR Nadine Ribet
Peter Hayden DIRECTOR Lois Leonard EDITOR Nadine Ribet
PRODUCER Satoshi Okabe CAMERA Steven Patapoff WRITER Nadine Ribet
DIRECTOR Satoshi Okabe EDITOR Kate Schoninger
CAMERA Hiroshi Yoshioka, WRITER Susan Hauser
Hironori Enomoto, Hiroyuki Kozako
SOUND EDITOR Errol Samuelson
EDITOR Peter Simkins
WRITER Peter Hayden
COMPOSER Trevor Coleman
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DIRECTOR Paul Redman EXEC PRODUCER Kai Lintunen EXEC PRODUCER Tami Berkovits
CAMERA Paul Redman PRODUCER Werner Schweizer
DIRECTOR Cristina Karrer
CAMERA Otmar Schmid
EDITOR Patrizia Wagner
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The Forest Governance Learning By giving those who live in and Forests for People aims to raise
Group is an informal alliance of around forests the responsibility awareness of sustainably managed
in-country groups and international of managing them and the rights forests and conservation of habitats
partners currently active in to benefit from them, community in Germany. The film features
eight African and three Asian forestry has proven to be an the work of forest rangers, forest
countries. We aim to connect those effective means of reducing poverty researchers and an off-road
marginalised from forest governance while also protecting forests. The stroll through the wilderness of a
to those controlling it and to help both Democratic Republic of Congo remarkable national park. Stunning
do things better. Since 2003, we have (DRC) is home to the second aerials show fascinating landscapes
been carrying out focused studies, largest tract of tropical forest in the across Germany. Commissioned
developing tactics and tools, holding world. To help communicate the by the German Federal Ministry of
learning events and working as a potential of community forestry in Food, Agriculture and Consumer
group to effect change. In December the DRC, Earthsight has produced a Protection, Forests for People is a
2006, the Ugandan government series of three films which explain German contribution to the United
announced plans to de-gazette areas community forestry, demonstrate Nations designated International Year
of the Mabira Forest Reserve and its effectiveness and examine the of Forests of 2011.
sell it to a sugar company. This is the different options and challenges
story of how the people of Uganda involved in implementing it.
fought back. Designed to be easily adapted for
use elsewhere, the films provide a
powerful new tool for helping spread
the word on a more equitable and
effective way of managing forests.
DIRECTOR Dominic Elliot PRODUCER Sam Lawson, Jo Hastie DIRECTOR Walter Kaul
SOUND EDITOR Dominic Elliot DIRECTOR Sam Lawson
EDITOR Adrian Hilliard
Leaves are born in spring, grow Come along with one of Gabon’s Frogs are slipping away: from
in summer, change their colors in most popular musical artists, Annie Australia to Panama, 1/3 of the
autumn and fall in winter. That’s the Flore, as she leads us on a journey of world’s amphibians are threatened
only story. This performed musical discovery to the heart of her country, with extinction. It’s being called
about life through a story of the in Lope, a UNESCO World Heritage the greatest mass extinction since
leaves in a forest, represents the Site. Along the way, she gets to know the dinosaurs; ecosystems are
importance of the environment some inspiring Gabonese people unraveling, medical cures are
that makes every life, live happily. who are dedicating themselves to vanishing, and our forests are falling
The original story was written by the challenge of protecting and silent. The film follows citizens and
Leo Buscaglia, professor for Univ. promoting their natural and cultural scientists across the globe as they
of Southern California, and was treasures, for Gabon and for our race to stop one of the greatest
adapted for a musical in Japan then planet. environmental cirsis of our time.
performed by Japanese child actors.
This is a video of the New York
Premiere in 2010. This simple story
makes you think about life and death
through the relationship between the
forest, creatures and human beings.
EXEC PRODUCER Shigeaki Hinohara DIRECTOR Aimee Sanders EXEC PRODUCER Fred Kaufman
PRODUCER Takashi Inuishi, Yuji Kuroiwa CAMERA Aimee Sanders PRODUCER Allison Argo
DIRECTOR Takashi Inuishi COMPOSER Annie Flore Batchiellilys DIRECTOR Allison Argo
WRITER Takashi Inuishi CAMERA Andrew Young
EDITOR Allison Argo
WRITER Allison Argo
COMPOSER Tom Phillips
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Living Forests Issues & Solutions, 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
Shorts
Gabon: Eden on the Edge tells the REDD+ (Reduced Emissions for I am an artist and Ghost Forest is
amazing story of one visionary Deforestation and forest Degradation a documentary about a series of
African leader and a group of in Developing Countries) is a large ten mighty rainforest tree stumps I
dedicated scientists who defied the scale global initiative run by the brought from a commercially logged
conventional wisdom that insists oil UN and other partners to reward primary rainforest in Western Ghana,
and logging were the only way to developing countries that reduce Africa to Europe to highlight the
bring prosperity to an impoverished greenhouse gas emissions by curbing alarming rate of deforestation on
land. They created thirteen new the loss of forests. The success of the planet. I presented these huge
national parks in one of the planet’s REDD+ activities will depend on the tree stumps as a Ghost Forest, their
last true wildernesses and are now engagement of the indigenous and absent trunks are intended as a
developing an eco-tourism industry to forest-dependent communities whose metaphor for the absence of the
sustain it. livlihoods are derived from forests. world’s ‘lungs.’ Ghost Forest was
This film discusses the challenge shown first in Trafalgar Square
of implementing REDD+ in the in London last November, then in
Democratic Republic of Congo. Copenhagen during the Climate
Change Conference in December.
They are now on the lawn of Oxford
University’s Natural History Museum
and will be there until July 31, 2011.
They are being seen by millions, and
having a profound effect.
EXEC PRODUCER Keenan Smart, EXEC PRODUCER Pal Karlsen EXEC PRODUCER Angela Palmer,
John Bowman PRODUCER Pal Karlsen Lisle Turner
PRODUCER Stella Cha DIRECTOR Marko Kosonen PRODUCER Jane Jackson
CAMERA Bob Poole CAMERA Joachim Foss Ronning DIRECTOR Jane Jackson
EDITOR Christine Jameson Henry EDITOR Dag Mykland CAMERA Jane Jackson
WRITER Paul Spillenger
Issues & Solutions Living Forests 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
PRODUCER David Springbett, EXEC PRODUCER Jonathan Halperin DIRECTOR Patrick Rouxel
Heather MacAndrew PRODUCER Michael Davie, Robert Zakin
DIRECTOR David Springbett DIRECTOR Michael Davie
CAMERA Peter Walker CAMERA Erin Harvey
EDITOR Shelly Hamer EDITOR Christine Jameson-Henry,
Salvetore Vecchio, Max Salomon, Kris Kral
WRITER Jaime Bernanke
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This documentary highlights the Gunung Walat University When life gets hectic, a trip into
Canadian Institute of Forestry’s Forest is a model of small scale Haida Gwaii’s ancient rainforests can
Centennial and the work the Institute forest management.The Forest sooth the savaged soul.
has done over the past 100 years, Entrepreneurship Approach includes:
influencing industry, research and combining of Forest Resource
practice in Canada’s forests. Drawing Management, Tridharma Services
on coast-to-coast interviews and Management, and Business
historical research, Growth Rings Development Management. GWUF
reveals the important role the CIF is beneficial not only for academic
has had in developing a sustainable purposes of civitas academic in
approach to resource management Faculty of Forestry IPB, but also for
and ensuring that the forests remain other educational institutions, local
a renewable resource, satisfying a community and for the public in
multitude of needs for Canadians. general.
PRODUCER Canadian Institute of Forestry PRODUCER Defri Satiya Zuma PRODUCER Berry Wijdeven
DIRECTOR Kristina Durst DIRECTOR Berry Wijdeven
EDITOR Kristina Durst EDITOR Berry Wijdeven
WRITER Miriam Pineau
Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Issues & Solutions
DIRECTOR John D. Liu EXEC PRODUCER Brian Leith EXEC PRODUCER Amanda Theunissen,
PRODUCER Environmental Education PRODUCER Tom Hugh-Jones Carl Hall, Ashley Hoppin
Media Project (EEMP) DIRECTOR Tom Hugh-Jones PRODUCER Uday Sinh Walla,
EDITOR Dave Pearce Melanie Price
COMPOSER Nitin Sawhney DIRECTOR S. Nallamuthu
CAMERA S. Nallamuthu
EDITOR Dan Schwalm, Zilke Lemmer,
Phillip Perry
WRITER Melanie Price
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Forests are our lifeline. Apart from In dry years, fires in California cost The documentary is about the
water and oxygen, they are a crucial billions of dollars and often result uniqueness of childhood and the
carbon sink, helping stabilize the in lost lives. As fire crews rest from exploration of the human mind. In an
earth’s climate. Forests support a rough year and prepare for this outdoor nursery based in the woods,
the largest variety of biodiversity one, KQED’s QUEST looks at how the children create their own individually
on land. Four major Indian rivers history of forest management could constructed worlds and can test out
originate from these forests and be feeding today’s flames. the boundaries of reality.
travel the width of the country,
nurturing and feeding millions of
lifeforms before joining the Bay of
Bengal. Over 200 million people in
Southwestern India also rely on the
forests of Western Ghats. But due
to relentless progress and mindless
deforestation, this biodiversity
hotspot is being threatened. Using
the Earthwatch Climate Centre as a
case study to inspire and inform, this
film showcases the need to empower
people to generate awareness about
the importance of forests, highlighting
the forgotten benefits of forests.
DIRECTOR Mike Pandey PRODUCER Christopher Bauer PRODUCER Anna Frances Ewert
WRITER Mike Pandey DIRECTOR Anna Frances Ewert
CAMERA Anna Frances Ewert
EDITOR Anna Frances Ewert
The Forest Governance Learning This film traces the evolution and Kingdom of the Forest, shot in
Group is an informal alliance of discovery of medicinal plants and stunning high definition, explores
in-country groups and international tribal wisdom in India. Today, the the wildlife of Europe’s primeval
partners currently active in modern world is moving towards forests. The full range of large and
eight African and three Asian these traditional practices, creating charismatic mammals and birds
countries. We aim to connect those a phenomenal demand for medicinal are captured in Kingdom of the
marginalised from forest governance plants. Strangely, the bulk of the Forest with fascinating insights into
to those controlling it and to help plants traded are gathered from wild hunting, reproduction and other
both do things better. Since 2003, forest sources. India is one of the behaviour. Kingdom of the Forest
we have been carrying out focused richest bio-diversity hotspots in the also explores the hidden elements
studies, developing tactics and tools, world, supporting over 45,000 species of the woodlands, using long-term
holding learning events and working of agricultural and medicinal plants. timelapse, super slow motion
as a group to effect change. This film The film explores the interdependent and extreme macro photography.
gives an insight into the issues being way of living of tribal communities Incredible footage of plant life
tackled in three of the country teams: that have since time immemorial through the seasons brings the
Uganda, Ghana and Vietnam. depended on the forest for all their spectacular yearly cycle to life.
needs. It looks into the philosophy of
traditional medicinal practices and
discusses what further steps and
measures are required to conserve
and protect the medicinal heritage.
DIRECTOR Dominic Elliot PRODUCER Mike Pandey EXEC PRODUCER Andrea Florence,
SOUND EDITOR Dominic Elliot DIRECTOR Mike Pandey Ashley Hoppin, Joern Rover
WRITER Nina Subramani PRODUCER Joanne Lunt,
Tom Synnatzchke, Nautilusfilm
DIRECTOR Jan Haft
CAMERA Jan Haft, Kay Ziesenhenne,
Rudolf Diesel, Adrian Langenbach,
Robert Morgenstern, Rolf Steinmann
EDITOR Phillip Perry, Kathrin Schroder,
Robert Morgenstern
WRITER Joanne Lunt
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Forest Hero
Kodama is a spirit that dwells in the One of the last havens of untouched If your bank is destroyed, what do
trees. In Japanese kodama also forested land, the Nilgiri Biosphere you feel and what will you do? We
means an echo, because people Reserve in South India, is home to have got the same feeling, because
believe it is the tree spirits that reply Apis Dorsata, the deadly rock bee. the forest is our bank for our life!
to our call across the valley. Kodama Just before the monsoon, the honey This documentary tells how people
can be written as “tree spirit,” “tree gatherers--Kurumba tribals of the in Sarawak are struggling against
deity” or “tree sound.” The sound Nilgiri--prepare for their yearly the current issues of timber logging
here is the resonance in our mind and harvest of honey, scaling precipitous and expanding oil palm plantations
the voices that reach our heart. cliffs to collect the treasure of the and gives messages to who imports
wild Apis Dorsata. This is the first film and consumes natural resources in
to document the Honey Hunters of the Sarawak.
Blue Mountains. Dramatic sequences
of honey gathering off 300 foot cliffs
leave you spellbound by their agility
and fearlessness.
Last Stand of the Great Bear takes Earth’s Green Heart is a trilogy of The Law of the Jungle is part of the
viewers on a voyage through one of educational documentaries telling Emmy Award Winning series Global
the last vestiges of true wilderness the story of solo journeys across Focus - The New Environmentalists.
left in North America, telling the story the three tropical forest blocks. The film features portraits of two
of the people who have devoted their Steve Taylor is a British independent passionate, grass roots activists
lives to the protection of the Great film-maker with African roots, who in Suriname, a little known South
Bear Rainforest. set out to document deforestation. American country. Wanze Eduards
& Hugo Jabini are traditional
Saramaka leaders (descendants of
African slaves). They successfully
organized their communities
against destructive Chinese logging
operations on traditional Saramaka
lands in Suriname’s rain forests.
This ultimately lead to a landmark
ruling in the Inter-American court,
an international body, allowing
indigenous and tribal peoples to
control resource exploitation in their
territories throughout the Americas.
Narrated by Robert Redford.
EXEC PRODUCER Michael Rosenfeld CO-PRODUCER Ian Redmond PRODUCER Will Parrinello
PRODUCER Stella Cha, PRODUCER Steve Oliver Taylor DIRECTOR Will Parrinello
Anne Marie Hammers DIRECTOR Steve Oliver Taylor CAMERA Vicente Franco
CAMERA Jeff Hogan EDITOR Irina Hoss SOUND EDITOR Steven Leeflang
EDITOR Emmanuel Mairesse EDITOR Quinn Costello
WRITER Eleanor Grant WRITER Tom Dusenbery, Will Parrinello,
John Antonelli
COMPOSER APM Musi, John Keltonic,
JDK Music
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Life Force is a celebration of the Sustainable forest management This program shows how life
power of evolution--an exploration is one of the practices used in in Finland is shaped by the
of the forces that shape life in all maintaining Satoyama landscapes. almost-spiritual relationship with the
its unexpected glory. New Zealand This program introduces two forests and lakes, which cover about
is a fairytale archipelago with a entrepreneurs who employ three quarters of the country.
turbulent geological past. It’s a land both traditional knowledge and
with astonishing creatures: flightless scientific advancement to support
birds, night dwellers and living the biological diversity of their
fossils. Evolution has run wild on this forests and mountains. Chouichiro
land of isolation, producing some of Oono keeps his father’s charcoal
the world’s most unusual animals. factory alive by managing a grove
Life Force is a groundbreaking of Kunugi trees that are needed to
cross-genre fusion of blue-chip produce traditional sumi charcoal
natural history and cutting edge for Japanese tea ceremonies.
science documentary. The episode Toru Hayami, owner of the Hayami
follows a story arc with the main Forests, plants several species of
characters, examining some of their trees side-by-side, helping to sustain
life dramas. But it also weaves in the the overall health of his forest. They
dramas of evolution that have made demonstrate that the practices of
the animals so special, weird and Satoyama are financially viable.
wonderful.
EXEC PRODUCER Andrew Waterworth DIRECTOR Kaori Brand EXEC PRODUCER Shinichi Murata, Hiroyuki
PRODUCER Judith Curran CAMERA Ryo Murakami Wakamatsu
DIRECTOR Brant Backlund DIRECTOR Shohei Shibata
CAMERA Mike Single CAMERA Koichi Nagura,
EDITOR Celia Offwood Masanori Sawahata, Shinichiro Kawaguchi
SOUND EDITOR Yuki Matsuda
EDITOR Tomoki Kitamori
WRITER Jeremy Evans, Satoko Nakahara
COMPOSER Heikki Laitinen, Arja Kastinen,
Yuki Kajiura
Issues & Solutions Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
Lives of the Forest presents the Lurking in the Trees is a documentary The live-action animated film Magic
perspectives and concerns of showing the plight of Worcester, in the Forest tells the story of Caty, a
various indigenous communities Massachusetts in a fight against mall rat on a class trip to the Cradle of
as developing countries around invasive pests. The film walks you Forestry. Unexpectedly, she is swept
the world adopt the UN’s REDD through the discovery of the Asian away into a magical and mystifying
program as a ‘solution’ to the climate longhorned beetle in this New primeval forest. Her only way out?
crisis. The indigenous filmmakers England town and the consequences Defy the dangers created by her
behind this short film believe that it faced. Lurking in the Trees hopes to own lack of caring for her planet.
market-based approaches to climate show the world how to fight invasive She must overcome a desolate and
change (such as REDD) are entirely pests and how to prevent tragedies deformed forest, a rampaging and
at odds with traditional lifestyles and such as the one that occurred in roaring fire and the most evil tree
beliefs of indigenous peoples and Worcester. ever mutated upon this earth. Will
through such programs, governments she make it? Will the forest make it?
around the world will assert Will the planet make it? It all depends
ownership over the forests inhabited on her. Inspired by Richard Louv’s
by indigenous communities causing book, Last Child in the Woods, this
landlessness and increased loss of 30-minute green fable engages the
bio-cultural diversity. It was made minds and hearts of people of all
during a participatory video facilitator ages.
training in Ifugao (Philippines)
by representatives of 15 distinct
indigenous communities from eight
different countries.
EXEC PRODUCER Frank Lowenstein DIRECTOR Jon Menick
PRODUCER Kelly Gibson SOUND EDITOR Mark Hagerling
DIRECTOR Martin Hamburger WRITER Jon Menick
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Juxtaposed to the hustle and The importance of the use of fire Monteverde Now: Voices from the
bustle of city life on the diminutive by professionals dedicated to the Frontlines of Change is a collection
Caribbean island of Dominica, Jerry prevention and suppression of of short reflections from those who
Maka West works his garden in the wildfires in Europe. live and work on the edge of Costa
island’s lush interior, his Zion, growing Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest. It’s
and preparing his food just as his about nature, about people, about
grandparents once taught him. Jerry climate and about change. And, while
is Nom Tew, Man of the Soil. you may be thousands of miles away,
it’s mostly about you. Monteverde
Now was produced by Peabody
Award-winning filmmaker Austin
Haeberle in collaboration with the
Monteverde Institute and the United
Nations Mandated University for
Peace.
EXEC PRODUCER Etta Deschamps DIRECTOR Nadine Ribet EXEC PRODUCER Austin Haeberle
PRODUCER Etta Deschamps EDITOR Nadine Ribet PRODUCER Austin Haeberle
DIRECTOR Pierre Deschamps WRITER Nadine Ribet
CAMERA Pierre Deschamps
SOUND EDITOR Pierre Deschamps
EDITOR Pierre Deschamps
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Japan USA
This film documents time shared by Karin is a proud forest owner. She Primatologist, Mireya Mayor, gets
four high school students and four shows us her favorite spot by the little a rare and intimate look into the
elderly mountain sages. The students stream where the trout is and she family life of gorillas and witnesses
are typical Japanese teenagers shows us the mountain where the big individuals performing feats
who share a deep anxiety about the elk lives. She was born at the forest unexpected in the wild. Spectacularly
future. The sages represent a rural, estate and as a little girl she helped photographed and featuring new
mountain-based life that Japan has her grandfather to plant this. That’s scientific insight, Mystery Gorillas
all but discarded in search of rapid thirty years ago. Hasn’t it grown well presents familiar animals like you’ve
economic development and material and isn’t it beautiful? never seen them before.
prosperity. These eight lives provide
us with a window on the fundamental
contrasts to be found in Japan--urban
vs. rural, modern vs. traditional,
the young and the old --and show
us what can happen when these
radically different worlds meet.
CO-PRODUCER Shukichi Koizumi PRODUCER Johan Heurgren EXEC PRODUCER Keenan Smart
PRODUCER Yoshimi Oganeku DIRECTOR Johan Heurgren PRODUCER James Manfull
DIRECTOR Shohei Shibata CAMERA Joel Pettersson DIRECTOR James Manfull
CAMERA Koichi Nagura SOUND EDITOR Patric Ponci CAMERA Andy Mitchell, Bob Poole
SOUND EDITOR Toshiyuki Suzuki, EDITOR Johan Heurgren, Karin Bergquist EDITOR Sam Morrison
Toru Kadokura WRITER Filippa Wallstrom, WRITER James Manfull
Johan Heurgren
COMPOSER Torbjorn Helander
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Cathe Neukum DIRECTOR Sandesh Kadur Kadur CAMERA Steve Morgan
CO-PRODUCER Cathe Neukum CAMERA Chinmay Rane EDITOR Steve Morgan
PRODUCER Thomas Veltre WRITER John Nelson
DIRECTOR Cathe Neukum
CAMERA Ian Kellett, Adrian Warren
SOUND EDITOR Thomas Veltre
EDITOR Thomas Veltre
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Rising sea levels, birds and forests Once There was a Rainforest is a Ora Andy Anderson, age 93, takes
on the other side of the world --all short movie presenting an ambitious us on a brief tour of his tree farm
our actions are connected. Cathy theatrical documentary project of and nature preserve nestled in the
Fitzgerald once counted birds for a Academy Award-winning French Appalachian Ohio foothills. Along
UN biodiversity study on Suwarrow, filmmaker Luc Jacquet and botanist the way we discover how personal
an unpeopled and low lying atoll in Francis Halle (who pioneered values can lead to action.
the Cook Islands in the South Pacific exploration of the rainforest canopy
that is now threatened by rising using ‘rafts’ suspended from balloons)
sea levels. In her own small 2 acre about the wonders of the last primary
forest in Ireland, she is attempting to rainforests --a patrimonial film for the
learn, create and share ideas about future generations that won’t be able
permanent forestry, which will be one to experience these forests anymore.
of the most important local responses
to counter the threat of climate
change and biodiverstiy loss.
PRODUCER Cathy Fitzgerald DIRECTOR Luc Jacquet EXEC PRODUCER Jean Andrews
DIRECTOR Cathy Fitzgerald CAMERA Francois Royet PRODUCER Jean Andrews, Steven Fetsch
SOUND EDITOR Cathy Fitzgerald EDITOR Stephane Mazalaigue CAMERA Jean Andrews
EDITOR Cathy Fitzgerald EDITOR Steven Fetsch
COMPOSER Bruce Dalzell
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Orangutan Island is a soap opera with On the 7th of February 2009, PEFC is the world’s largest forest
a difference--the main characters are devastating bush fires tore through certification system.
orange, hairy orphans who live in a Victoria, Australia. Swathes of
twilight world on an island in Borneo. prime forest were destroyed and
And with practically no wilderness it’s wildlife incinerated. But, against
left for this nomadic, mostly solitary all odds, there were survivors of
species, time is running out for ‘Black Saturday’. Told in beautiful
them. Lone Droscher-Nielsen and cinematography, this is the story of
her talented team from the Nyaru how Nature rose out of the ashes.
Menteng Rescue and Reintroduction
are in a race against time to save and
protect the orangutans.
This documentary tells the creation Devastating over 1 million oak trees Play Again investigates the
of a 40,000 hectare new forest across Northern California in the past consequences of a childhood
in the Peruvian Andes. Starting 10 years, Sudden Oak Death is a killer removed from nature. At a time
from nothing, this forest now with no cure. But biologists now are when children spend more time in
strongly improves the communities’ looking to the trees’ genetics for a the virtual world than the natural
life conditions after 30 years of solution. world, Play Again unplugs a group of
perserverance. There are great media savvy teens and takes them
possibilities to realize such kind on their first wilderness adventure,
of afforestation everywhere in the documenting the wonder that
world. comes from time spent in nature and
inspiring action for a sustainable
future.
EXEC PRODUCER Gerhard Herren PRODUCER Amy Miller EXEC PRODUCER Lowan Stewart
PRODUCER Gerhard Herren PRODUCER Meg Merrill
DIRECTOR Gerhard Herren DIRECTOR Tonje Schei
WRITER Gerhard Herren CAMERA Jim Klatt
EDITOR David Bee
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This powerful short film documents A stunning journey through one of the Recreating the Country documents
the impact deforestation has on South rarest and most beautiful rainforests the story of the first ‘Biorich’
American rainforest communities on Earth. Rainforest: The Secret of sustainable planting in regional
and how Rainforest Partnership is Life explores the intricate web of Victoria, Australia. This short film
working with the these communities life that has been woven into this features an overview of the concepts
to generate sustainable sources of ancient treasure house of nature. The and actions being undertaken
income that do not adversely affect documentary introduces the latest between The Ballarat Region
the environment. science on how rainforests world Treegrowers and Imerys Minerals
wide are implicated in our planets Australia, who own the site on which
natural ‘air conditioning system’ and the planting is taking place. This is
their importance in the face of global an important project for the viability
climate change. of sustainable forestry in Australia,
which has one the worst rates of
species and habitat loss in the world.
Drenched in rainfall, there is no place Monteverde is a region in the A short documentary about a man,
on earth like an ancient redwood mountains of northwestern Costa his dogs and their mission to save the
forest. Here, life is denser than in any Rica that harbors more biological Pahaoa River. Set in the Wairarapa
tropical rainforest. For any given area, diversity than almost any other place region of New Zealand’s magnificent
there is more biomass in a redwood on the planet. Rhythms in the Clouds North Island it is a story about hope,
forest--more sheer weight of living explores the origins and patterns determination and standing up for
things--than anywhere else on earth. of this diversity, with spectacular what is right.
Immersed in summer fogs, redwood footage and sounds gathered over
forests occupy one of the rarest of all the course of several years by local
climatic regimes. Ancestral redwood naturalists, Alexander Villegas and
trees flourished in the Jurassic Mark Wainwright. The film also
period when dinosaurs ruled the examines the value and the fragility
earth. Though the dinosaurs are long of the region’s ecosystems, making a
gone, the redwoods remain...a living moving call for ongoing conservation
link to this intriguing world of giants. work in Monteverde and worldwide.
And they stand as giants today, the
tallest trees on earth! Relics from a
bygone time, these living fossils tell a
fascinating story of survival and the
triumph of life.
PRODUCER Gray Warriner EXEC PRODUCER Alexander Villegas EXEC PRODUCER Ian McGee
DIRECTOR Gray Warriner DIRECTOR Mark Wainwright DIRECTOR Daniel Oscar Hunter,
CAMERA Gray Warriner CAMERA Alexander Villegas James Muir
EDITOR Gray Warriner EDITOR James Fallas CAMERA Daniel Oscar Hunter,
WRITER Gray Warriner WRITER Mark Wainwright James Muir
EDITOR Daniel Oscar Hunter, James Muir
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Seeking to build the awareness of Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon Rwanda: Back to the Garden reports
Belize’s multi-cultural society of the is a two-part documentary looking from Rwanda where the 1994
connection that we have with our into the socio-economic and genocide had a little-known effect:
forests, rivers and coastal reefs. environmental pressures facing the degrading the land as well as the
The driving factor behind this is the Amazon regions of Brazil, Ecuador human spirit. But amid tragedy there
need to engage communities in the and Peru and exploring the legacy of are rays of hope - and, as Back
fight against the government policy devastation created by a burgeoning to the Garden shows, the story of
of unsustainable hydroelectric global desire for energy, food ecosystem restoration in Rwanada is
development which is threatening and mineral resources. Part one one of them.
forests and rivers even in areas which investigates how oil companies are
are under strict protection. In a world affecting large tracts of the Amazon
where we are taking the essential in a desire to satisfy the planet’s
services our natural resources energy needs and how the turf wars
provide for granted, Ya’axche that arise over cattle ranching and
Conservation Trust has teamed up soy plantations have escalated. Part
with local filmmakers, Ajax Films, to two investigates how the global
create a film for a culturally diverse demand for cocaine is leading to
society. A society which faces the further deforestation and how the rise
same threats from unsustainable in the price of gold has meant that
development, and a society which people are tearing up the rainforest
needs to come together with one as they seek to earn a living.
voice to stand up to corruption and
foreign economic exploitation
Satoyama: a Japanese rural Pale ghosts that hide amid their In 1985, the Haida Nation led a protest
environment where people and gigantic siblings, only a few dozen against continued logging of what is
nature co-exist in harmony. This albino redwood trees are known now Gwaii Hanas. For months they
episode shows how people use to exist. They are genetic mutants stood the ‘Line at Lyell’, based from
traditional wisdom to manage a forest that lack the chlorophyll needed for the cabins in Sedgwich Bay. They
and harness nature for food without photosynthesis. But how and why succeeded in protecting the ‘Island
ravaging the environment. they survive is a scientific mystery. of Beauty’. From sea to peak, Gwaii
PBS San Francisco’s KQED-QUEST Hanas is now cooperatively managed
ventures into the deep canopy of by the Council of the Haida Nation
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and the Government of Canada.
near Felton, California to track down
these elusive phantoms of the forest.
EXEC PRODUCER Shinichi Murata, PRODUCER Christopher Bauer PRODUCER Joseph Crawford
Ryoji Ishida DIRECTOR Joseph Crawford
DIRECTOR Tetsunori Kikuchi
CAMERA Hiroyuki Kozako, Kou Kakizaki
SOUND EDITOR Yoshiyuki Iimura
EDITOR Masayuki Shimoyamada
WRITER Satoko Nakahara, Peter Hayden
COMPOSER Takashi Kako
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Along the Danube between Vienna Seeing Red: TreeFight’s First Year This film is based on a true story
and Bratislava, the force of water is is the story of a new organization, of what happened in the collective
still capable of creating previously TreeFight, that hopes to help preserve forest tenure reform.
non-existent habitats. Floods create the Whitebark pine of the Greater
new bluffs; new gravel banks and Yellowstone Ecosystem, which
islands grow out of the current; have been devastated by mountain
forests are washed away and pine beetle. From TreeFight’s first
created from scratch. This dynamic forays into the forest in the winter of
is a valuable treasure, a living 2009-2010, to its first volunteer field
current no longer found anywhere campaign in the high alpine meadows
else in Central Europe. The Danube of summer, to the autumn, when
floodplains east of Vienna, are home we went in search of the remaining
to the last river wilderness. Secrets healthy Whitebark forests, Seeing
of the Flooded Forest: of Danube Red traces the roots of a community
Auen National Park examines the initiative to study, appreciate, and
new, old floodplain landscape and the hold on to this all important species in
constant process of change which America’s most treasured wilderness.
allows the floodplains to survive. Produced by David A. Gonzales,
“Seeing Red” was partially funded
by prize money from the State of
Wyoming’s inaugural Short Film
Contest in 2008.
From the seashore to the highest The Speed of Life reveals nature in a Did you know that most toilet paper
mountains, from new-sprouted whole new light, utilizing never before comes from trees?
saplings to venerable stands seen technology to reveal details
several thousand years old, trees impossible to see with the naked eye.
are a familiar fixture in Taiwan’s Watch as the team shows the Costa
landscape. They keep watch over Rican rain forest in an unprecedented
innumerable cycles of life and fashion.
pervade the mystic world of nature.
Trees are an enduring, patient
voice for the earth--a melody that
pervades and shapes perceptions
of our earthbound existence.
Discover within the beauty of
Taiwan’s forest ecosystem, the folk
wisdom of Taiwan’s indigenous
peoples, the causes and effects of
change in Taiwan’s highland forest
environments and stories of several
forest conservationists working to
make a difference.
PRODUCER Chin-Yuan Ke, Li-Ping Yu PRODUCER Donald Schultz, PRODUCER Arjun Rihan
DIRECTOR Chin-Yuan Ke Devon Massyn, Myke Clarkson, DIRECTOR Arjun Rihan
CAMERA Chin-Yuan Ke Robert Alleva CAMERA Arjun Rihan
EDITOR Jhih Zong Su DIRECTOR Philip Lott, Donald Schultz SOUND EDITOR Arjun Rihan
CAMERA Daron Keet, Philip Lott EDITOR Arjun Rihan
EDITOR Sally Fuscoe, Casey Roth
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Taking Root tells the story of the Bamboo is strong. Bamboo is flexible. Can you imagine what it would be
Green Belt Movement of Kenya Bamboo is versatile. Bamboo is like to have your home torn down
and its founder Wangari Maathi, sustainable. Bamboo has always been around you and destroyed? It’s a
the first environmentalist and first an important provider of livelihoods horrible thought, but that’s exactly
African woman to win a Nobel for rural communities, but for urban what is happening in forests around
Peace Prize. In response to rural consumers it has had something the world. With an area of forest the
women’s problems stemming from of an image problem. There is a size of a football field being destroyed
a degraded environment, Maathi perception that bamboo is the poor every two seconds, endangered
suggested they plant trees. Starting man’s timber, but modern technology species such as gorillas, orangutans
with this simple act, these women now enables bamboo to be used in and chimpanzees are at risk of
worked successively against literally thousands of products; from extinction within our lifetimes. This
deforestation, poverty and violent luxury homes to gourmet cuisine; Greenpeace film shows all too clearly
political oppression until they high street fashion to surfboards, what this means. With the voices of
became a uniting force that helped skateboards and bicycles. Bamboo Sir David Attenborough and Ewan
to bring down Kenya’s 24-year products can not only provide income McGregor and actor Andy Serkis, it
dictatorship. Taking Root follows for the world’s poorest people, but is a stark reminder of what we stand
Maathi’s courageous and inspiring as the fastest growing plant on to lose if we aren’t able to save our
thirty-year journey to safeguard the earth, bamboo can help reduce ancient forests. But, there is still time.
environment, protect human rights deforestation by providing a more
and defend democracy. renewable alternative to timber.
Bamboo is eco-friendly, pro-poor and
high in quality. Bamboo is the wise
man’s timber.
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The Nature Conservancy brought Over fifty years ago, the This short film, narrated by Robert
together a coalition of federal, state Cheslatta-Carrier First Nation was Redford, is a part of the Global
and private organizations to conserve pushed to the brink of extinction Focus: The New Environmentalists
over a quarter million acres of forest when their traditional lands were series. Poland was in danger of
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. flooded for a hydro-electric project. losing its most precious, ancient
The Big UP Deal had a tremendous They overcame heartbreak, tragedy forest when Malgorzata Gorska, a
impact on both the economy and the and insurmountable odds to achieve young environmental activist, led the
way of life for thousands of Michigan economic and cultural revival fight against the Polish government
residents. through a Community Forest in their and the European Union to reroute
homeland. a major highway that would have
jeopardized the wildlife, waterways
and vegetation in the pristine
Rospuda Valley.
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On Taiwan island, fog envelops Deep in the old forests of Borneo, the The Central European Forest is a
Chilan Mountain all year long. Only Setulang Dayak community guards secret place whose inhabitants
three days of the year are clear of its trees with deep commitment. The live clandestine lives. How do
fog and moisture left on the trees village’s traditional law of Tana Olen innumerable organisms, large
alone can reach 300 millimeters. (forbidden forest) has helped the and small, live together? Are our
This fog stabilizes temperature and village withstand increasing pressure forests truly natural or the result of
humidity in the forest, creating a from the logging industry. Now as man’s intervention? Do they have
perfect environment to nurture the rapid development rolls in, the village anything in common with untouched
precious Asian primal cypress. To is trying to secure sustainable and wilderness?
unlock the mysterious force behind forest friendly livelihoods.
this fog prominent scientist, Dr. Yi-ling
Lai, spends her life in the forest like
a genie, reaching through the fog
to cypress trees to discover the
delicate relationship between fog and
the growth of plants. How incredible
is Mother Nature!
EXEC PRODUCER Chiu-hua Hsu PRODUCER Citt Williams PRODUCER Jan Michael Haft
PRODUCER Song Liu , Yi-wen Li DIRECTOR Citt Williams, Luis Patron DIRECTOR Jan Michael Haft
DIRECTOR Song Liu , Hsin-chih Hsieh CAMERA Luis Patron CAMERA Jan Michael Haft,
CAMERA Kuo-wei Hu, Li-an Hsieh, SOUND EDITOR Tfer Newsome Kay Ziesenhenne
Li-jen Tu, Po-wen Wang EDITOR Luis Patron EDITOR Robert Morgenstern,
SOUND EDITOR Hsin-chih Hsieh Kathrin Schroder
EDITOR Song Liu , Hsin-chih Hsieh WRITER Jan Michael Haft,
WRITER Song Liu Gerwig Lawitzky
COMPOSER Yi Chang COMPOSER Joerg Magnus Pfeil
Much of Japan’s forests were The Incomappleux River Valley This film follows a team of scientists
destroyed during World War II. lies in the heart of the only inland and mountain leaders into one of
Sixty-plus years later, the trees that temperate rainforest in the world. It the last unexplored rain forests
were planted in the war’s aftermath is home to colossal, 1,500+ year old in the world, the interior of the
have reached maturity. Japan must trees, rare plants, glacier fed streams North Negros Natural Park in the
now find a way to manage its forests and lichen species new to sciene. Philippines.
in a sustainable way. As the 17th Narrow trails shared by grizzly and
generation in his family to manage black bears, wolves, elk and deer
the Okahashi forests in Yoshino, wind around man-sized ferns, pass
Okahashi Kiyochika may hold the magical springs and tunnel through
answer to save Japan’s forests. avalanche debris paths. This antique
forest is like no other. The majority of
the valley bottom has been clearcut.
Come share what remains: visit the
Incomappleux.
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Discover the untold story of Yacouba In the face of mill closures, the The mythic American cowboy
Sawadogo, an illiterate African McBride Community Forest in lifestyle has come under intense
farmer who battled with nature and central British Columbia, is using scrutiny as environmentalists have
man to become a pioneer in the fight its resources to help diversify the taken aim at a perceived ‘frontier
against desertification. Perfectly economy by supporting value-added hangover.’ However, some ranchers
pitched cinematography engages enterprises and community successfully buck this trend and
beautifully with a story that will leave infrastructure. improve the land health.
you moved and inspired.
This wildlife documentary that takes Impeccable, creative cinematography The use of prescribed burning in
a different angle than most nature aside, the wondrous thing about the prevention and suppression
films. It documents the efforts of this study of a single sycamore fig, of wildfires and its importance in
wildlife veterinarian, Dr. Roberto Africa’s queen tree, is that it’s a Europe.
Puentespina, to save the critically microcosm of the eco-complexity of
endangered Philippine Eagle. From the earth at large.
campsites deep in the Philippine
rainforest to courthouse drama,
it is an insider’s look at what it is
like to work in the field of wildlife
conservation.The storyline follows
the fate of Kagsabua, the first
Philippine Eagle from the wild to be
fitted with a satellite radio transmitter.
When the eagle is shot and killed, Dr.
Bo tracks the case all the way to the
courts to find out what is being done
to save the Philippine Eagle.
PRODUCER John Croft, EXEC PRODUCER Victoria Stone DIRECTOR Francisco Manso
Roberto Puentespina PRODUCER Deeble & Stone Productions, EDITOR Francisco Manso
DIRECTOR John Croft NHK, Thirteen/WNET, WRITER Francisco Castro Rego
CAMERA John Croft Granada International, BBC, ZDF, in as-
SOUND EDITOR John Croft sociation with Kenya Wildlife Service
EDITOR John Croft DIRECTOR Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble
COMPOSER Joey Ayala, Waway Saway CAMERA Mark Deeble
SOUND EDITOR Wounded Buffalo
EDITOR David Dickie
COMPOSER Guy Michelmore
www.deeblestone.com
2503 Sycamore Canyon Road Flat Dog Productions, Ltd. Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Santa Barbara, CA 93108-1936 Old Coastguards, Gurnards Head ISA-CEABN
USA Zennor Tapada da Ajuda, Lisboa 1349, 17
St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 3DE Portugal
United Kingdom
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We all rely on the water cycle, but In 2008, Denise Zmekhol returned The Forest Governance Learning
how does it actually work? Scientists to the Amazon to film with the Suri Group is an informal alliance of
at UC Berkeley in California are tribe again - this time documenting in-country groups and international
embarking on a new project to its unique collaboration with Google partners currently active in
understand how global warming is Earth Outreach. The partnership, a eight African and three Asian
affecting our fresh water supply. And result of Chief Almir Surui’s request countries. We aim to connect those
they’re doing it by tracking individual that Google help raise visibility for marginalised from forest governance
raindrops in Mendocino and north of his tribe, involves training the Surui to those controlling it and to help
Lake Tahoe. people to use Internet technology to both do things better. Since 2003,
protect their forest, preserve their we have been carrying out focused
culture and empower their people. studies, developing tactics and tools,
holding learning events and working
as a group to effect change. This film
depicts current issues in the forest
sector in Ghana--the loss of forest
cover is having environmental, social
and economic impacts, but are the
unauthorised chainsawers really
the ones to blame, or is there a more
fundamental problem with the current
licensing system?
www.zdfilms.com
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Forest Hero Issues & Solutions,
360 Degrees All Things Forest,
Forest Hero
49 minutes IFFF-131 23 minutes IFFF-46 17 minutes IFFF-95
Mandarin with English subtitles Indonesian and English
The lives, loves and everyday dramas Volunteers ascend 3,000 meters The story of two communities in
of the Namal tribe from Vanuatu’s above sea level to clean an South Sulawesi, Indonesia, both
Tanna Island. This intimate and experimental toilet. If successful, the fighting for the right to manage their
revealing, funny and touching series experiment will substantially benefit forest. The first community, in the
lets audiences experience life in the environmental protection efforts village of Semanki, is fighting against
one of the world’s last untouched and the water sources. the constraints imposed by the
cultures. establishment of a national park. The
second, in Labbo, is making the most
of their ‘extraordinary opportunity’ to
set up one of Indonesia’s first ‘village
forests,’ an exercise that promises
to make not just their livelihoods, but
also the future of their forest much
more secure.
EXEC PRODUCER Andrew Waterworth EXEC PRODUCER Hsiao-ching Ting EXEC PRODUCER Susan Mackay
PRODUCER Greg Quail, John Hyde PRODUCER Chieh Teng PRODUCER Craig Knowles
DIRECTOR Larry Gray DIRECTOR Chia-chun Huang DIRECTOR Craig Knowles
SOUND EDITOR Errol Samuelson CAMERA Li-an Hsieh, Chia-chun Huang CAMERA Lufty Ferdiansyah
EDITOR Cameron Crawford EDITOR Chia-chun Huang WRITER Craig Knowles
WRITER Yi-fang Li
NHNZ Public Television Service, Taiwan RECOFTC - The Center for People and
5 Melville Street No.100, Lane 75, Sec.3, Kang Ning Rd. Forests
Dunedin, Otago 9016 Taipei 114 P.O. Box 1111
New Zealand Taiwan Kasetsart Post Office
Bangkok 10903 Thailand
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The village of Pred Nai is hailed as This film introduces the types and An exploration of the necessity of
a success in fighting for the right distribution of China’s wetlands and wilderness, told through the eyes of
to manage their own forest, in this their related problems and conflicts three Park employees from different
case one of Thailand’s last remaining with the human race. It won China’s backgrounds, each of whom have
mangrove ecosystems. The locals Grand Prize for Excellent Scientific a special connection to the back
took their battle to the highest level Documentary in 2007. country of Banff National Park.
and drove out the developers. Since
then, the community has organized
to conserve its mangroves, with
everyone taking part in making
decisions that also improve their
livelihoods. Now the warriors of 20
years ago are passing the baton to
a new generation. How do they see
their future?
RECOFTC - The Center for People and State Forestry Administration Parks Canada Agency
Forests of P.R. China 25 Eddy Street
P.O. Box 1111 No.18 Hepingli East Street Beijing Gatineau, QC K1A 0M5
Kasetsart Post Office Dongcheng District Canada
Bangkok 10903 Beijing 100714
Thailand China
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