Brooke Runnette, the key person behind Discovery Channel’s famed Shark Week annual event, will show clips while explaining why Shark Week is so successful, what is does for shark conservation, and the challenges she faces in producing the programs.
How storytelling over multiple media platforms might enable Ecuador's Waorani people to defend their biologically rich territory from the incursion of industry. Filmmakers Keith Heyward and Jennifer Berglund of Prehensile Productions will discuss their film and their experience as new environmental filmmakers trying to hang on to their values in a competitive industry.
Stephen Shackelton, a top executive and Chief Ranger with the National Park Service (NPS), shows stunning stills and clips of our iconic national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and describes how NPS uses the media to protect and conserve these national jewels
Mark Breeze, the Producer of the Memorial and Museum episodes of the recent landmark six-part Discovery Channel/ Spielberg documentary on the rebuilding of Ground Zero, discusses the challenges and process of making a documentary over 18 months about the rebuilding of a site that everybody knows, but nobody wants to talk about.
An Evening with Chris Palmer: The Best and Worst of Wildlife Films
When Chris Palmer’s book Shooting in the Wild: An Insider’s Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom was published in 2010, it sparked praise, great interest, and controversy. Exposing the thrilling, yet sometimes tragic, world of wildlife filmmaking, his book revealed a dark side to this world: a pervasive and troubling trend toward sensationalism, extreme risk-taking, falsification and even wildlife abuse in filmmaking. In this special evening, Chris highlights the worst and best examples of the genre, illustrating his talk with numerous, controversial, high impact clips from wildlife films. He evaluates the ethics behind their making, explaining what should be condemned and what should be praised. Chris also screens the winners of this year’s Eco-Comedy Video Competition, sponsored by the Sierra Club.
Student Environmental Short Film Festival
Screenings hosted by Professors Chris Palmer and Sandy Cannon-Brown
Several short student films will be shown, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
“OK, I’ve Watched the Film, Now What?”: Panel discussion moderated by Chris Palmer, featuring Diane MacEachern, Founder & CEO, Big Green Purse; Steve Michelson, Executive Producer of Specialty Studios/Video Project; and Joanna Benn, Senior Officer, International Policy, Pew Environmental Group and Board member, Filmmakers for Conservation
How do we produce films that make a difference? By showing many clips, this panel explores ways we can turn films into action at both the policy and personal levels. Our panelists consider the challenge of producing films that have a tangible and measurable impact on their audiences.
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DC Premieres: Dying Green, plus a discussion with filmmaker Ellen Tripler and the film’s star Dr. Billy Campbell. Also showing: Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean
Dying Green: Living green is something many of us strive for in today's world, but did you know that you can die green as well? Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, Dying Green explores one man's vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town's only physician, has radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell's dream is to conserve one million acres of land. Dying Green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves.
Emmy Award winning filmmaker Kevin Bachar, founder and director of Pangolin Pictures, has made natural history films for all the big networks. In this presentation, he will show a number of fascinating clips to illustrate the major challenges facing wildlife filmmakers in the field. Whether debating the common sense involved when jumping in the water to film orcas feeding, or deciding where is the best spot to place a hidden camera when filming undercover, Kevin will give some insight on what you need to know when shooting natural history documentaries.
Trevor Spradlin, a marine mammal biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, will discuss the important contributions films and documentaries can make to support the conservation of marine mammals, and the unintended consequences when artistic license misleads the public.
Tuesday, February 14
Defending Eden: Indigenous People, Conservation and Film
Tuesday, February 21
Exploring the Potential Power of Film in Protecting America's National Parks
Tuesday, February 28
Documenting the Unseeable: Spielberg, Ground Zero, and Feeling the Rebuilding
Tuesday, March 20
An Evening with Chris Palmer: The Best and Worst of Wildlife Films
Wednesday, March 21
Student Environmental Short Film Festival Screenings hosted by Professors Chris Palmer and Sandy Cannon-Brown
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| Kogod at Lunch | 11:00 am |
| Delta Chi Valentine's Day Flower | 11:00 am |
| Eco-Valentines | 11:00 am |
