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April 21, 2013
Celebrate Earth Day Bradford!On April 21, 2013 we are teaming up with the University of Pittsburgh Bradford's Environmental Studies Club and Campus Sustainability Committee, Bradford Earth Day, among others to host a Wild and Scenic Film Festival, a family day of hikes, food, raffle, and great films! Free to the public, however donations will be gratefully accepted at the door to cover event costs! Location: Bromeley Family Theater, University of Pittsburgh Bradford. Time: Hikes at 9AM (meet at Bromeley). Doors open for films at 12:30PM. See Full Scehudle of Films Below. See Full Film Schedule Below! Listen to Live Line Interview with Anne Holliday on WESB 1490am Bradford, PA. Feature Films Include
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival, is "considered the largest film festival of its kind. This year’s films combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation. Festival-goers can expect to see Award winning films about nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture, Native American and indigenous cultures...The films instill a deep appreciation and a sense of wonder for the natural world that surrounds and supports us."
Location: Bromeley Family Theater, University of Pittsburgh Bradford. 9:00 – 12:00: Day Hikes and Outdoor Activities 12:30: Doors Open 1:00: Introduction and Welcome 1:10 PM Facing Climate Change: Oyster Farmers Kathleen Nisbet and her father, Dave, farm oysters in Washington’s Willapa Bay. They recently shifted some of their business to Hawaii, after ocean acidification started killing baby oysters in local hatcheries. This short film is part of a series that explores global climate change through people who live and work in the Pacific Northwest. (5min)
Yukon Kings Set in the remote Alaskan Yukon Delta, Yukon Kings follows Yup'ik fisherman Ray Waska as he teaches his grandkids how to fish during the summer salmon run. With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children. (7min) (discussion and questions)
1:25 PM Facing Climate Change: Potato Farmers John O’Conner grew Idaho potatoes where they had never been grown before. Then – with mountain snowpack dwindling – the state bought his water permanently drying up the farmland. This short film is part of a series that explores global climate change through people who live and work in the Pacific Northwest. (5min) Dancing Salmon Home In the Beginning, when the living beings emerged from the Sacred Spring on Mt. Shasta, Salmon gave her voice to Human. The Winnemem Wintu people remember that gift and maintain their ceremonies, despite hardship and loss. In 1945, the 600-foot tall Shasta Dam flooded their homes, drowned their river, and stopped their Chinook salmon runs. Now, tribal members travel to New Zealand to meet their surviving salmon relatives for the first time in generations. (15min) (discussion and questions)
1:50 PM Unicorn Sashimi Throughout winter, relentless cold winds blow across Siberia and pick up moisture from the Sea of Japan. When this wet and frigid air pushes up against the mountains of Hokkaido, mind numbing amounts of snow fall on Japan’s northern most island, providing intrepid skiers and snowboarders an incredible playground to explore. (6min) Of Souls + Water - The Mother The life of a woman – her life, her dreams, her legacy – painted on the canvas of still waters in deep canyons. (6min)
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM Brower Youth Awards: Brittany Stallworth Growing up in Detroit, Brittany Stallworth and members of her family suffered from limited access to healthy food and exposure to toxic emissions from nearby car factories. Driven by her own experience with environmental injustice, Stallworth founded “Green is the New Black” — a food and environmental justice campaign at Howard University. The passion Stallworth brings to this cause has inspired others to take action in improving food accessibility and environmental justice in underprivileged communities. (4 min.)
Brower Youth Awards: Ryland King Inspired by the idea that “when one teaches, many learn,” Ryland King founded Environmental Education for the Next Generation, a program that recruits college students to teach elementary school kids about our environment. The curriculum includes topics like “The Importance of Bees,” “Composting,” and “Water Conservation.” In less than three years, 400 college student volunteers have taught more than 3,000 elementary school students. (4min)
Brower Youth Awards: Martin Figueroa In the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley of California, UC Merced student Martin Figueroa has been the driving force in a campus movement to reduce water use and improve energy efficiency. To track water usage Figueroa utilized real-time water monitoring technology and enlisted engineering students to help track the data. Students reduced their water use by 14 percent, saving 89,000 gallons of water. (4min)
Brower Youth Awards: Jacob Glass Inspired by the “soaring proud pines, migratory moose herds, and pristine air” of the region, Jacob Glass produced En Plein Air, a film that documents the efforts of Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, a grassroots group formed in 2005 to get federal wilderness protection for the region. The surge of public support for the wilderness designation led to endorsements from many area chambers of commerce and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. (4min)
(discussion and questions)
2:40 PM Public Lands, Private Profits: Boom or Bust The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Sierra Club, undertook a series of video mini-documentaries that revealed places held in the public trust threatened by pending proposals to mine and drill in or around them. In “Boom or Bust”, we look at a fight brewing in a small Utah town over the expansion of a nearby coal mine and its effects on majestic Bryce Canyon National Park. (6min)
Public Lands, Private Profits: Too Special To Drill The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Sierra Club, undertook a series of video mini-documentaries that revealed places held in the public trust threatened by pending proposals to mine and drill in or around them. In “Too Special To Drill”, natural gas drilling would bring an ignoble end to Wyoming’s spectacular Noble Basin and its residents’ exceptional way of life. (6min)
The Way Home Although our national parks belong to all Americans, it’s a sad fact that very few people of color ever set foot in some of our country’s most beautiful places. Take a journey to Yosemite National Park with the Amazing Grace 50+ Club, a Los Angeles-based senior church group whose members are looking to reverse that trend. (9min)
(discussion and questions)
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Into the Middle of Nowhere This documentary celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the nonexistence of limits to a child’s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and can test out the boundaries of reality. The environment allows them to explore everything through their own experience and imagination while also bringing to the foreground their personal and collective development. (15min)
Generation Green Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his personal struggle reflects the great dilemma of our generation. Patrick's courageous choices and eventual path forward highlight the actions needed to shape the world of tomorrow. (13min)
The Gimp Monkeys What has four legs, five arms and three heads? The Gimp Monkeys. Craig DeMartino lost his leg after a 100-foot climbing fall. Pete Davis with born without an arm. Bone cancer claimed Jarem Frye’s left leg at the age of 14. It is their shared passion for climbing that pushed them towards an improbable goal – the first all-disabled ascent of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan. (9min) (discussion and questions)
3:55 PM Facing Climate Change: Coastal Tribes The Swinomish Tribe has lived on the coasts of the Salish Sea since time immemorial. Today, rising seas not only threaten cultural traditions, but also the economic vitality of this small island nation in the shadow of a large oil refinery. This film explores climate change through people who live and work in the Pacific Northwest. (4min)
Facing Climate Change: Plateau Tribes The Umatilla Tribe in Northeastern Oregon has promised to take care of the foods that promised to take care of them: water, fish, game, roots and berries. Can they keep that promise in a warming world? This film explores global climate change through people who live and work in the Pacific Northwest. (4min) Yosemite Nature Notes - Sky Islands Throughout California's Sierra Nevadas, flat plateaus are found at high elevations of twelve and fourteen thousand feet. These isolated "sky islands" are home to rock gardens filled with amazing wildflowers found nowhere else in the world. Botanists in Yosemite National Park are working to document these unique plant communities for the first time before a changing climate drives them to extinction. (7min)
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4:15 PM Sanctuary Taos, New Mexico is bordered by a backyard of wildlife and wild land. Both take a beating as outdoor users love the Carson National Forest to death. Some of those users recognized the damage they caused and decided to instigate a movement for resource recovery, and a refuge was restored. (13min)
Eyes in the Forest: The Portraiture of Jim Lawrence Follow experimental filmmaker Miriam Needoba in this rare view of British Columbia’s remote Selkirk Mountains as seen through the eyes of wildlife photographer Jim Lawrence. Eyes in the Forest is both a restrained study of landscape and wildlife, and a conversation between two artists and their art. (13min) (discussion and dialogue)
4:45 PM Break 5:00 PM Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution explores biomimicry, the science of emulating nature's best ideas to solve human problems. Set in South Africa, the film follows Time magazine "Hero of the Environment" Janine Benyus as she illustrates how organisms in nature can teach us to be more sustainable engineers, chemists, architects, and business leaders. After 3.8 billion years, nature has discovered not only how to survive but also how to thrive as a system. Benyus brings deep affection for the natural world as she guides us toward a vision of a planet in balance between human progress and ecosystem survival. (24min)
5:30 PM Intermission with Live Music from Stony and Company
6:00 PM The Water Tower Three decades ago, filmmaker Pete McBride had the opportunity to climb Linana, the false summit of Mt. Kenya. He was 9. He discovered his first glaciers and became enthralled with this African mountain, the second highest in the continent, which produces 70% of Kenya's water supply. Today, it is changing. It's glaciers are retreating. Some have already vanished. McBride partners with Challenge21 climber Jake Norton and a team of local Kenyans and athletes to understand this iconic mountain's vast watershed and see how it's transformation is rippling downstream. The journey is more than a climb, more than an expedition. It is a water wake up call and a physical and symbolic quest to find Ngai, the Samburu people's local water God, who is said to live atop this 17,057 foot "Water Tower". (28min) (discussion and dialogue)
6:40 PM Closing Sequence
Moonwalk Dean Potter is nothing if not creative. In this short piece, he highlines across a desert landscape with a massive full moon as his backdrop. (4min)
Dark Side of the Lens This short film takes you on an eerie, stunning and moving journey amongst the epic oceanic grandeur of Ireland’s west coast. (6min)
Seasons: Winter Brian Ward discovers an unexpected love for water in its frozen and expanded form. (4min)
Seasons: Spring As the snow melts Jesse Murphy becomes reinvigorated by the river. (4min)
Last Light There is an undeniable magic in alpenglow-- the final seconds of a day’s light that give mountains impossible texture and life before falling into shadow. In the endless spring hours of Haines, Alaska, light is as bountiful as snow. But to capture the best of both, that singularly lit moment that turns powder into frozen red fire, you must live all day in the midst of them. (6min) END Read more about the Wild and Scenic Film Festival Please also stay tuned for a second Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Pittsburgh, PA in the Fall of this year (read more here). Sponsored by:
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