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EFF2011 The Films International Screening
EFF2011 The Films International Screening
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Of Straw And Earth When Sébastian and Kelly decide to build their house, they do not realize that it is going to represent an architectural innovation in their region. Driven by three architects who refuse conventional mode of building (Collective CArPE), they decide to build a house made from ... Read more Food Matters With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide 'sickness industry' and gives people some ... Read more The West In The East In search of a new relationship with nature, a man tries to construct a house for himself in the woods on his own, doing his best to link up to a distant water source. With few financial resources, he uses timber offcuts as construction material, ... Read more They Come For The Gold, They Come For It All In Esquel, Argentinian Patagonia, a Canadian company was granted with the rights to extract gold and silver from a mountain located 7 km away from the city, using huge amounts of water and cyanide. With 50% of the population living below the limits of poverty, ... Read more It’s A Beautiful Day We need water every day. But, every day we are not aware of the future of reduce water. Based on data from the Indonesian Water Company Association in 2010, 500 hundred water companies in Indonesia has sold 14.5 billion liters of water. Nowadays, there are 1,573 ... Read more Sol A story of realization by Japanese director, designer, animator and musician, Shoji Goto, SOL is a music video about a child who has inherited a negative legacy of humankind realizes a positive power through acting out visions of knowledge, prayers, courage and curiosity. RUNNING TIME: 2 ... Read more Sand,Wind And Water It is the return of wet dune slacks in the Meyendel dunes. Before 1874, the dune areas around the city of the Hague contained many rare plant species. After that, the Hague started drawing too much of the ground water away for human use and ... Read more Butterflies Go! RUNNING TIME: 53 MINSCOUNTRY: NETHERLANDSDIRECTED BY: MONIQUE VAN DEN BROEK Read more In My Prison A prisoner can no longer endure the oppressive atmosphere found inside the prison and so he devises a plan to end his troubles and find tranquillity. RUNNING TIME: 7 MINSCOUNTRY: ITALYDIRECTED BY: ALLESSANDRO GRANDE Read more The Garbage Of Jupiter Beach What weighs 20,000 pounds and takes nearly 4,000 people to move it? The Garbage on Jupiter Beach. 15 years ago a local resident Anita Lankler made a deal with the City of Jupiter. You let our dogs on the beach and we'll pick up the ... Read more Toxic Tears Tom Deiters, who had come to India six years ago to carry out research on farmer suicides in Lehragaga area, as an academic exercise, was moved by the destruction that the pesticides were wreaking that he decided to stay-on for a longer time. His documentary ... Read more Caring For The Lagoon The magnificent lagoon of Mayotte, an island in the Indian Ocean, is at the very heart of local life. The Mahorans are aware of this and try to protect it. From the wooded mountain top to the mangrove and into the sea, we came across ... Read more Smart Machine The short, CGI animation, Smart Machine, captures a little boy's unusual encounter with a vending machine during a family vacation. The child discovers that the machine can talk and it has a very strong opinion on what he should eat! With nutrition as the theme, the piece presents ... Read more Cravings The short, CG animation, Cravings, chronicles the brief journey of a determined little girl to satisfy her rather surprising desire. The child manages to pluck her favorite food from an assortment of delicacies. With nutrition as the theme, the piece presents a healthy food choice to children ... Read more Wishful Thinking In the short, CG animation, Wishful Thinking, an imaginative three year old changes the theme of her birthday party when she makes a wish and blows out the candles on her cake, much to the delight of her seven tiny guests. With nutrition as the ... Read more The Carbon Connection The Carbon Connection follows the story of two groups of people from each community who learned to use video cameras and made their own films about living with the impacts of the carbon market. From mental health issues in Scotland to the loss of medicinal ... Read more Aznavour Square Official representatives of Gyumri always proudly emphasize the beauty and cultural heritage of their hometown. In this film, the members of the SunChild Eco Club of Gyumri try to find out how this attitude goes along with the fact that some citizens are forced to ... Read more Small Protests With nothing but a toothbrush in his back pocket, 19 year old Rabbit decides to change the world one protest at a time. This short film is directed by Zillah Bowes. Bowes has been working as a cinematographer for 6 years and in that time ... Read more Wasting Earth A short animation about the Man on his Earth who has to face the consequences of his excessive consumption and he feels obligated to adopt methods that will change his life style. RUNNING TIME: 5 MINS 44 SECSCOUNTRY: BRAZILDIRECTED BY: CASSIA MARY ITAMOTO & CELINA KURIHARA Read more Silent SnowThe Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature's untouched beauty, an endless nothing in which only few knows how to survive. But dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, poisoning its inhabitants. A young Inuit woman investigates the sources of this pollution. Her journey takes ... Read more Sola, Louisiana Water Stories Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana (SoLa) there’s water – bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three. When filmmaker Jon Bowermaster arrived in Louisiana in July 2008 to make a ... Read more The Secret Life Of Beez The disappearance of bees in the world sparks some to action, but only some. Hidden deep within this genre-ridden comedic short is an important message about the life of Bees. Kate is an activist who goes to great lengths to bring the issues to the rest ... Read more Pitaqagnittuq In the isolated arctic community of Pitaqangittuq (Nunavut), the climate is warming at an alarming rate, but its inhabitants are determined to adapt. RUNNING TIME: 22 MINSCOUNTRY: CANADADIRECTED BY: CARA DI STAULO Read more Soundtracker In this documentary that shadows an Emmy-winning sound recordist at work, writer-director Nick Sherman captures one man's solitary obsession with obtaining "natural" sounds in an aural world that's littered with noise. Recording sounds isn't just Gordon Hempton's occupation, a job he's performed passionately for the ... Read more Taking Root: The Vision Of Wangari Maathai Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. RUNNING ... Read more A New We The Austrian documentary filmmaker Stefan Wolf traveled through Europe in order to explore well established eco-communities and to present a broad spectrum of lifestyle possibilities to many people. The variety of situations and voices in A New We inspires hope for the future of humanity ... Read more Future Of Hope Over the past 20 years we have seen a growing realization that the current model for society and culture is unsustainable. We have been living beyond our means. A character driven documentary following individuals that strive to change the world of consumerism, a system of ... Read more Farming Our Future More and more we tend to neglect our environment. The chemicals applied in agriculture are compositions which have deleterious effects on the human body. The frantic efforts to step up food production to match the fast growth in world population have resulted in very serious consequences. Farming ... Read more Burning The Future: Coal In America In Burning the Future: Coal in America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction. Faced with ... Read more |
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