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U.N. Forum on Forests Secretariat 2

2011 International Year of Forests 3
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 4
Final Jury 6
Preliminary Judges 7
Film List 8
Award Winners & Finalist Profiles 13
Films 30
International forest film festival
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Forumprofiles
on Forests Secretariat
The United Nations Forum International Year of Forests

on Forests Outreach Advisory Committee
UNFF is an intergovernmental policy forum which Lisa Samford, (Chair) Executive Director,
promotes “the management, conservation and Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
sustainable development of all types of forests and to Yann Arthus-Bertrand, President, GoodPlanet
strengthen long-term political commitment to this end”. Foundation
UNFF was established in 2000 by the Economic and Marc Barasch, Founder/CEO, Green World Campaign
Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). The Sergio Besserman Vianna, Advisor, Fundação
Forum has universal membership, and is composed of Roberto Marinho
all Member States of the United Nations and John Colmey, Director of Information Services,
specialized agencies. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Michael Finley, President, Turner Foundation
John D. Liu, Director, Environmental Education
United Nations Forum on Forests Media Project (EEMP)
Michael Rosenfeld, President, National Geographic
Secretariat Television
Jan McAlpine, Director Adam Wolfensohn, Managing Director, Wolfensohn
& Company
International Year of Forests Communications Team
Mita Sen, Program Officer
Sylvia Chen, Program Officer One UN Plaza, DC1-1245, New York, NY 10017
Nick Corasaniti, Junior Writer 212.963.3401
www.un.org/forests
Email: forests@un.org
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2011 International Year of Forests
International Year of Forests 2011

Celebrating Forests for People
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FORESTS – 2011
2011 has been proclaimed the International Year of
Forests by the UN General Assembly. Activities
during this year will raise awareness to strengthen
sustainable forest management of all types of forests
for the benefit of current and future generations. The
year-long celebration will provide a platform to build
strategic partnerships, showcase success stories and
innovative solutions and galvanize greater public
participation in forest-related activities at all levels.
The theme of Forests 2011 is “Forests for People,”

which explores the dynamic relationship between
forests and the people who depend on them. Forests
2011 presents a unique opportunity to put the key role
that forests play in our lives at center stage, raising
awareness on sustainable forest management and
showcasing success stories and solutions. fairs, conferences, and competitions in areas
ranging from photography and art, to athletic
The Year is a global event, to be celebrated at all levels triathlons in forests.
– regional, national, local and personal. A wide variety
of events have already been planned worldwide, and
more continue to develop each day. Current activities
include tree planting, reforestation efforts, forestry
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jackson
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hole wildlife film festival
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
jackson hole wildlife film festival
Board of Directors
Stephen Reverand, Development & Production Stella Cha, Director, Film and Video
Discovery Channel The Nature Conservancy
Andrew Jackson, Head Laura Orthwein, Vice President

BBC Natural History Unit Feodor Pitcairn Productions
Gerhard Klein Janine Baker, VP, Distribution & Development

ORF-UNIVERSUM, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation nWave Productions Distribtion
Marjorie Kaplan, President and General Manager Staff

Jason Carey, Vice President of Production Executive Director
Animal Planet Lisa Samford
Shin-ichi Murata, Executive Producer Festival Director

(Japanese Broadcasting Company) Carrie Noel Richer
NHK
Marketing & Sponsorships
Joe Facchini, Director, Product Marketing Leslie Goodyear
Panasonic Solutions
Associate Programmer
Robert Willox, Director of Marketing Rebecca Fix
Sony Electronics, Inc.
Graphic Designer
Jason Winkler, Principal Lisa Walker, Caldera Collective
Arete Media Group
240 South Glenwood, Suite 112
Jean-Francois Camilleri, General Manager Jackson, WY 83001
Disney Nature 307.733.7016
www.jhfestival.org
Russell Sparkman, CEO
Fusionspark Media, Inc.

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FINAL JURY
Shane Moore is a freelance filmmaker with over twenty-five years experience

making wildlife and nature films for television. With a background in wildlife
biology, he is passionate about finding new and innovative ways to inspire a greater
understanding of nature. His projects have ranged worldwide and his clients have
included PBS, BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel. Shane’s films
have won numerous awards, including several from the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film
Festival, The Banff Mountain Film Festival and two Emmy awards.
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.
Cristina Mittermeier is the President and Founder of the International League of

Conservation Photographers, whose work with leading scientists, policy makers,
government leaders and conservation groups produces the highest-quality
documentary images of both the beauty and wonder of the natural world and the
challenges facing it. As a photographer and writer, Cristina has co-edited nine
books. From the popular to the scientific, Cristina’s work has appeared in major
magazines around the world. Her evocative images focus on demonstrating the
important relationship between human cultures, especially indigenous people,
and biodiversity.
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judges
Preliminary Judges
More than 60 preliminary judges

volunteered their time to screen and
judge the 165 films from over 30 countries
that entered in the International Forest
Film Festival competition. Each film was
screened in its entirety by up to 5 judges.
We are entirely grateful for their
enormous contribution.
Holly Balogh Kyle James

Benjamin R. Bombard Njeri Kariuki
Laurie Boss Steve Kilpatrick
Katy Carter Heidi Kohler
Patrick Cartwright Natalie Kruse
Sylvia Chen Mikko Kurpa
Tammy Christel Don Kushner
Nick Corasaniti Ethan Lee
Rick Crawford Robin MacLeod
Jamie Dakus Macey Mott
Rachel Daluge Andy Munz
Miriam Danar Susan Patla
Alissa Davies Katherine Pioli
Tyler Duke Clay Preheim
Robin Elledge Heidi Ramseur
Julie Elledge Ben Read
Ryan Elledge Bernard Reitmann
Randy Elledge Cord Reynolds
Gary Elliott Brett Richer
Suzanne Ferond Mita Sen
Susan Garlow Bob Stephenson
Rob Gipson Liz Sunshine
Carlin Girard Diana Sweet
Jodie Goodwin Levi Thorne
Gregg Goodyear Jen Thorne
John Hansen Barbara Travora-Jainchill
Connie Hansen Benjamin Singer
Paul Hansen Peter Ward
Tim Harman Adrienne Ward
John Henningsen Amy Williams
Brian Hines

finalist
film listprofiles
alphabetical Do Elephants Pray? 42

Double Bladed Axe 42
Dwindling Forest: Dwindling Future? Mangroves + 42
48 Hours at Follensby 30 Forest Peoples under Threat in the Sundarbans
52 Weeks (52 Semanas) 30 Equator: Rivers of the Sun 43
5x5: Voices of Change in the Forests of Indonesia 30 Finding David Douglas 43
A Forest Returns: The Success Story of Ohio’s 31 Fire in Cold Land 43
Only National Forest Fire in the Balance 44
A Forestry Enchantment (Bir Ormancilik Buyusu) 31 Fire Memories 44
A Wedged Tale 31 FLEGT VPA Impacts 44
A Working Forest: Its Future with Fire, People 32 FLEGT VPA Political Film 45
& Wildlife Forest (Metsa) 45
A World Forest Adventure 32 Forest of Hope: Kenya 45
Africa’s Green Heart 32 Forests Fight Back 46
Africa’s Lost Eden 33 Forests for People: An Introduction to 46
Africa’s Wild Eden 33 Community Forestry
Agroforestry 33 Forests for People: Natural Heritage and 46
Aigoual: Rebirth of a Forest 34 Economic Factor in Germany
Aliens of the Amazon: Treehoppers 34 Freddie the Leaf (Happa no Freddie) 47
Amazon Alive: Jungle of the Mind 34 Friends of Nature (Les Amis de la Nature) 47
Amazon Alive: Hidden Secrets 35 FROGS: The Thin Green Line 47
Amazon Alive: Forest of the Future 35 Gabon: Eden on the Edge 48
America’s Wild Spaces: Appalachian Trail 35 Getting REDD+ to Work: The Challenge in DR Congo 48
Amyu: The Army of Wasp-Men 36 Ghost Forest 48
Angels of the Forest: Silky Sifaka Lemurs 36 GoodWood 49
of Madagascar Gorilla Murders 49
Animal River Challenge: Day of the Caiman 36 Green 49
Back to the Roots 37 Growth Rings: 100 Proud Years of Canadian Forestry 50
Bark Beetle Blues, by Oatmeal Stumble 37 Gunung Walat University Forest: The Real Model of 50
Burning Bright 37 Small Scale Sustainable Forest Management
Capital for the Canopy 38 Hope 50
Celebrating Forest Health 38 Hope in a Changing Climate 51
Chernobyl: A Natural History? 38 Human Planet: Jungles 51
Children of the Amazon 39 Indian Tiger 51
Climate Change and Forests: What You Need 39 India’s Western Ghats: Forests in a Changing Climate 52
to Know and Do Into the Inferno: The Science of Fire 52
Climbing Redwood Giants 39 Into the Middle of Nowhere 52
Community Trees: A Living Investment 40 Justice in the Forests 53
Conflict Tiger 40 Kalpavriksha: Legacy of the Forests 53
Cotton-Top (Cabeciblancos) 40 Kingdom of the Forest 53
Cultivating Common Ground: The Story of the 41 Kodama: Forest of the Tree Spirits 54
Lakeview Stewardship Group Kurumbas: Children of the Blue Mountain 54
Death of a Forest 41 Lamentation of the Forest 54
Disturbance 41 Law of the Jungle 55
Forest facts
Deforestation accounts for 12 to 20 percent
of the global greenhouse gas emissions that
contribute to global warming.
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Last Stand of the Great Bear 55 Sea To Peak 67

Latin America’s Green Heart 55 Secrets of the Flooded Forest 68
Life Force: New Zealand 56 Seeing Red 68
Life in a Vibrant Satoyama Forest 56 Setting Footprints on the Borders 68
Life in Harmony with Nature: Finland-- 56 Song of the Forest 69
Secrets of the Forest Speed of Life: Central American Killers 69
Lives of the Forest 57 Switch Today 69
Lurking in the Trees 57 Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathi 70
Magic in the Forest 57 Ten Facts about the Wise Man’s Timber 70
Man of the Soil (Nom Tew) 58 The Ancient Forests 70
Masters of Fire 58 The Big UP Deal 71
Monteverde Now: Voices from the Frontlines 58 The Cheslatta Community Forest 71
of Change The Detour 71
Morikiki: Mountains, Students and Sages 59 The Fog Genie 72
My Forestry 59 The Forbidden Forest of the Dayak 72
Mystery Gorillas 59 The Forest: Realm of Shadows 72
Nature’s Greatest Defender 60 The Forests of Yoshino 73
North-Eastern Diaries 60 The Incomappleux 73
Oka Jeni: Cameroon’s Forest Peoples Speak Out 60 The Lost Forest 73
Once I Counted Birds 61 The Man Who Stopped the Desert 74
Once There was a Rainforest (C’etait la Foret 61 The McBride Community Forest 74
desvPluies) The New Frontier 74
Ora E. Anderson: The Soul of the Woods 61 The Philippine Eagle: A Conservation Odyssey 75
Orangutan Island: Cheating Extinction 61 The Queen of Trees 75
Out of the Ashes 62 The Salamander Paradox 75
PEFC: The World’s Largest Environmental 62 Tracking Raindrops 76
Movement (Maailman Suurin Ymparistoliike) Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops 76
Pioneers of Green Gold in the Peruvian Andes 63 Trees in Local Hands 76
(Les Pionniers de l’or Vert des Andes du Perou) Tribal Life: Meet the Namal Jungle School 77
Plant Plague: Sudden Oak Death 63 Unsung Heroes of Mt. Jade 77
Play Again 63 Voices of the Forest: Sulawesi 77
Rainforest Partnership 64 Voices of the Forest: Thailand 78
Rainforest: The Secret of Life 64 Wetland Conservation in China 78
Recreating the Country 64 Wild Places: Banff National Park 78
Redwoods: In the Shadow of Giants 65 Wild Russia: Kamchatka 79
Rhythms in the Clouds: Biodiversity and 65 Yosemite Nature Notes: Big Trees 79
Conservation in Monteverde, Costa Rica
River Dog 65
River to Reef 66
Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon 66
Rwanda: Back to the Garden 66
Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Forest 67
Science on the SPOT: Albino Redwoods, 67
Ghosts of the Forest
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.

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By Category Forest Hero

Kodama: Forest of the Tree Spirits 54
A Forest Returns: The Success Story of Ohio’s Only 31
360 Degrees All Things Forest National Forest
5x5: Voices of Change in the Forests of Indonesia 30 Africa’s Wild Eden 33
A Forestry Enchantment (Bir Ormancilik Buyusu) 31 Aigoual: Rebirth of a Forest 34
A Working Forest: Its Future with Fire, People & Wildlife 32 Angels of the Forest: Silky Sifaka Lemurs of 36
Amazon Alive: Jungle of the Mind 34 Madagascar
America’s Wild Spaces: Appalachian Trail 35 Children of the Amazon 39
Amyu: The Army of Wasp-Men 36 Climbing Redwood Giants 39
Back to the Roots 37 Double Bladed Axe 42
Do Elephants Pray? 42 Finding David Douglas 43
Fire in Cold Land 43 Growth Rings: 100 Proud Years of Canadian Forestry 50
FLEGT VPA Impacts 44 Justice in the Forests 53
Forest (Metsa) 45 Masters of Fire 58
Forest of Hope: Kenya 45 Nature’s Greatest Defender 60
Forests Fight Back 46 The Lost Forest 73
Forests for People: Natural Heritage and 46 The Man Who Stopped the Desert 74
Economic Factor in Germany The New Frontier 74
Freddie the Leaf (Happa no Freddie) 47 The Philippine Eagle: A Wildlife Conservation Odyssey 75
Ghost Forest 48 Unsung Heroes of Mt. Jade 77
Green 49 Voices of the Forest: Sulawesi 77
Human Planet: Jungles 51 Voices of the Forest: Thailand 78
India’s Western Ghats: Forests in a Changing Climate 52
Kalpavriksha: Legacy of the Forests 53
Kodama: Forest of the Tree Spirits 54
Kurumbas: Children of the Blue Mountain 54
Life in Harmony with Nature: Finland - 56
Secrets of the Forest Issues & Solutions
Magic in the Forest 57 A Working Forest: Its Future with Fire, 32
Morikiki: Mountains, Students and Sages 59 People & Wildlife
Out of the Ashes 62 Africa’s Lost Eden 33
Pioneers of Green Gold in the Peruvian Andes 63 Agroforestry 33
(Les Pionniers de l’or Vert des Andes du Perou) Amazon Alive: Forest of the Future 35
Play Again 63 Capital for the Canopy 38
Rainforest: The Secret of Life 64 Cotton-Top (Cabeciblancos) 40
Song of the Forest 69 Cultivating Common Ground: The Story of 41
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathi 70 the Lakeview Stewardship Group
The Detour 71 Disturbance 41
The Forest: Realm of Shadows 72 FLEGT VPA Political Film 45
Tribal Life: Meet the Namal Jungle School 77 Forests for People: An Introduction to Community 46
Wetland Conservation in China 78 Forestry
Voices of the Forest: Sulawesi 77 FROGS: The Thin Green Line 47
Getting REDD+ to Work: The Challenge in DR Congo 48
Forest facts
The area of planted forest is increasing –
it now accounts for 7% of total forest area.
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GoodWood 49 Secrets of the Flooded Forest 68

Gunung Walat University Forest: The Real Model of 50 Speed of Life: Central American Killers 69
Small Scale Sustainable Forest Management The Fog Genie 72
Hope in a Changing Climate 51 The Queen of Trees 75
Indian Tiger 51 Wild Russia: Kamchatka 79
Lamentation of the Forest 54
Lives of the Forest 57
Lurking in the Trees 57
Orangutan Island: Cheating Extinction 61
PEFC: The World’s Largest Environmental 62
Movement (Maailman Suurin Ymparistoliike)
Shorts
A World Forest Adventure 32
Rainforest Partnership 64
Bark Beetle Blues, by Oatmeal Stumble 37
River to Reef 66
Celebrating Forest Health 38
Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon 66
Climate Change and Forests: What You Need 39
Setting Footprints on the Borders 68
to Know and Do
The Salamander Paradox 75
Death of a Forest 41
Trees in Local Hands 76
Dwindling Forest: Dwindling Future? Mangroves + 42
Voices of the Forest: Sulawesi 77
Forest Peoples under Threat in the Sundarbans
Forests for People: Natural Heritage and Economic 46
Factor in Germany
Friends of Nature (Les Amis de la Nature) 47
Getting REDD+ to Work: The Challenge in DR Congo 48
Living Forests Hope 50
48 Hours at Follensby 30 Into the Inferno: The Science of Fire 52
52 Weeks (52 Semanas) 30 Into the Middle of Nowhere 52
A Wedged Tale 31 Life in a Vibrant Satoyama Forest 56
Aliens of the Amazon: Treehoppers 34 Man of the Soil (Nom Tew) 58
Amazon Alive: Jungle of the Mind 34 Once I Counted Birds 61
Amazon Alive: Hidden Secrets 35 Once There was a Rainforest 61
Chernobyl: A Natural History? 38 (C’etait la Foret des Pluies)
Equator: Rivers of the Sun 43 Plant Plague: Sudden Oak Death 63
Fire in the Balance 44 Recreating the Country 64
Gabon: Eden on the Edge 48 Science on the SPOT: Albino Redwoods, 67
Gorilla Murders 49 Ghosts of the Forest
Kingdom of the Forest 53 Sea To Peak 67
Last Stand of the Great Bear 55 Switch Today 69
Life Force: New Zealand 56 Ten Facts about the Wise Man’s Timber 70
Mystery Gorillas 59 The Ancient Forests 70
Redwoods: In the Shadow of Giants 65 The Big UP Deal 71
Rhythms in the Clouds: Biodiversity 65 The Cheslatta Community Forest 71
and Conservation in Monteverde, Costa Rica The Detour 71
Rwanda: Back to the Garden 66 The Forbidden Forest of the Dayak 72
Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Forest 67 The Forests of Yoshino 73
Forest facts
Around 10 million people are employed in forest
management and conservation.

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The Law of the Jungle 55

The McBride Community Forest 74
Tracking Raindrops 76
Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops 76
Voices of the Forest: Thailand 78
Wild Places: Banff National Park 78
Yosemite Nature Notes: Big Trees 79
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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The Queen of Trees

Deeble & Stone Productions, NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corp.), Thirteen/WNET,
BBC, Granada International, and ZDF in association with Kenya Wildlife Service
The beauty of Africa’s wilderness sometimes depends on the most delicate

relationships. A close look at how one creature’s behavior starts off a critical
chain of events, uncovers an incredible tale of drama and intrigue.
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.

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awards
Special jury awards
Recognizing an outstanding integration of the In recognition of the inspiration and impact an

historical, biological and cultural elements of the individual can make on the world.
Amazon rainforest.
This film was a finalist in the 360° All Things Forest category. This film was a finalist in the Forest Hero category.
Amazon Alive: The Man Who Stopped the Desert

Jungle of the Mind 1080 Film & TV, Ltd.
Light & Shadow, GmbH
An African peasant farmer has managed what so many
This is the story of how we have struggled to make others failed to do: transform the lives of thousands
sense of the enormity and complexity of the Amazon of people by making the desert bloom again. Discover
rainforest. Using key animals such as jaguar, the untold story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate
leaf-cutting ant, giant otter and the fresh-water stingray, African farmer who battled for two decades with nature
we show how we have turned past fears of the hostile and man to become a pioneer in the fight against
and impenetrable jungle into an understanding of its desertification. Perfectly pitched cinematography
unrivaled biodiversity. We discover that the forest is not engages beautifully with a story that will leave you
just the result of millions of years of evolution. Its moved and inspired.
richness stems from struggle, upheaval and a
remarkable event, the geologic uplift of the Andes, Yacouba resurrected an ancient planting technique
which changed the course of the Amazon River itself. known as ”zai,” using traditional planting pits. He
hacked into the hard-baked earth and filled the pits with
Using stunning visual content to transport the audience compost. In the region, tens of thousands of hectares
deep into the beating heart of the rainforest, Amazon of land that was completely unproductive have been
Alive is a remarkable journey into a world which seems made fertile again. Yacouba has reversed the process
far away, but which influences every breath we take. of desertification in the deforested and drought-ridden
Marvelling at the spectacular and bizarre wildlife and Sahel, a belt up to 1,000km wide, spanning Africa
sensing the richness and complexity of local cultures, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This story is a
we appreciate how this magnificent forest plays such a reminder that determined individuals can at least slow
central role in the planet’s cooling system. down the steamroller of environmental destruction
across the planet.
special jury awards
Special jury awards
Recognizing unique and effective communication through short form PSAs.
This film was a finalist in the Shorts category. This film was a finalist in the Shorts category.
The Ancient Forests Switch Today

Greenpeace UK Arjun Rihan
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.

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This is My Forest
Awarded to the film that tells the most moving personal expression
or story of the forest.
category winner:
Conflict Tiger Amazon Alive:

Sasha Snow Film Production Forest of the Future
Light & Shadow, GmbH
In the forests of the Russian Far East, an inexperienced
and foolhardy young poacher triggers an infamous Scientists hang from the high canopy to monitor harpy
series of attacks on people. The authorities call on eagle and macaw nests and track jaguars along
the services of Yuri Trush, a specialist in tracking and flooded rivers. Poison dart frogs and tropical plants
eliminating tigers that have lost their fear of man. are analyzed as potential medicines, while brazil nuts,
caiman and pirarucu fish are harvested sustainably to
Conflict Tiger takes Yuri’s most notorious pursuit of provide a more long-term livelihood for local communities.
a ‘man-eating’ tiger as the basis for an environmental All rainforests are special, but the Amazon contains an
documentary thriller, exploring increasingly confrontational unrivalled level of bio-diversity. It is, quite simply, the
relations and shared destiny between tigers and people. greatest and most iconic rainforest on earth. It’s hard
From the aftermath of this epic confrontation, the not to feel despair at the overwhelming images of
film emerges as a parable which challenges the cozy rainforest destruction. But, while documenting the
illusions of the traditional “big cat” natural history by region’s remarkable wildlife for the making of Amazon
setting the animal’s precarious situation against the Alive, filmmaker Christian Baumeister witnessed a
pressing needs of human survival. Nominated for ‘Best changing mood: a growing belief that the Amazon is
International Environmental Film of the Decade’ at The more valuable as a living forest than being stripped
Green Globe Awards in Los Angeles, the film inspired for its wood and minerals. Christian witnessed the
John Vaillant’s new work of non-fiction ‘The Tiger: A miraculous and diverse wildlife, landscapes and people
True Story of Vengeance & Survival.’ of Amazonia, and the threats to their existence, but
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.
finalist profiles - this is my forest
Seeing Red Voices of the Forest: Thailand

Snaz Media, LLC AsiaWorks Television
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.

finalist profiles
Living Forests
Awarded to the film that most effectively showcases the rich diversity (including
forest biodiversity) and complexity of the forest ecosystem.
category winner:
Kingdom of the Forest Chernobyl: A Natural History?

Parthenon Entertainment, Ltd., Nautilusfilm Camera Lucida Productions
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.
finalist profiles - living forests
Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Forest Secrets of the Flooded Forest

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Interspot Film, GmbH
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.

finalist profiles
Issues & Solutions

Awarded to the film that most effectively communicates solutions to environmental
and sustainability issues facing forests and their inhabitants, including people.
category winner:
Hope in a Changing Climate Africa’s Lost Eden

Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) National Geographic Television
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.
finalist profiles - issues & solutions
Amazon Alive: Forest of the Future GoodWood

Light & Shadow, GmbH Ashnan Films / Asterisk Productions
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.

finalist profiles
Forest Hero
Awarded to the film that most effectively celebrates the work of individuals or groups
committed to forest research and sustainability.
category winner:
© NGHT, LLC and National Geographic Society

Photo credit Cameron Williams
Climbing Redwood Giants

National Geographic Television
They are living giants, one of Earth’s largest and oldest

trees. Some tower more than 350 feet high, taller than
the Statue of Liberty; some may have been seedlings
when Jesus was born. Yet, these natural legends still
shroud centuries-old secrets.
Climbing Redwood Giants reveals the little-explored

environment of the redwoods using high-tech aerial
laser surveys and breathtaking imagery. Humboldt
State University’s, Steve Sillett, the first researcher to
explore the redwood canopy, discovered the canopy
contained a hidden world of trees growing within trees,
fern gardens growing on soil mats the size of a bus, and
a mysterious salamander as top predator. Sillett tallied
every speck of biological stuff from ground to crown
in one plot of redwood forest. His patch contains more
biological material by far than any other measured
patch of the planet.
As Sillett investigates redwoods up in their towering

crowns, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence,
Mike Fay, is charting the entire redwood range on the
ground, step by step, on an epic year- long journey to
get a sense of the past , and future, of the world’s most
awe-inspiring living things.
finalist profiles - forest hero
Africa’s Wild Eden Nature’s Greatest Defender

National Geographic Television The Really Interesting Picture Company, Ltd.
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.
Now, Fay and National Geographic photographer,

Michael “Nick” Nichols, are on a mission to safeguard
the future of this modern-day Eden. National Geographic
ventures into the African wilderness to join Fay and
Nichols as they work to ensure that this fragile, newly
formed park will survive the test of time.
Forest facts
Forests are home to 80% of the world’s
terrestrial biodiversity.

finalist profiles
360º All Things Forest

Awarded to the film that best communicates humanity’s social, cultural,
economic or spiritual interconnectivity to forests.
category winner:
Green America’s Wild Spaces:

Tawak Pictures Appalachian Trail
National Geographic Television
Green examines the industries destroying the
Indonesian forest and unravels the hypocrisy behind The Appalachian Mountains are amongst the world’s
seemingly “green” bio-diesel made from palm oil. Green oldest mountains. The Appalachian Trail is the longest
is a female orangutan, and a victim of deforestation in marked trail in the country, at around 2,175 miles and
Indonesia. for more than half of the U.S. population, it is less than
a day’s drive away. Yet despite its proximity to many
As she lies on a hospital bed, Green seems to major cities like Atlanta and Boston, few truly know the
understand all that has happened to her: the splendor of this national treasure. National Geographic
destruction of her habitat and her species and of all Channel takes viewers off the beaten track to discover
the wildlife with which she shared her forest. The film the remote and often unknown corners of the 5-million-
is an emotional journey through the orangutan’s final step journey. America’s Wild Spaces: Appalachian
days, transporting the viewer from the luxuriance of the Trail takes viewers into the beautiful, remote and often
rainforest to the nightmare of its complete annihilation. unknown corners of the five-million step journey that is
The poetic edit of the film without narration contrasts the Appalachian Trail.
with the images of a harsh reality. Green is, ultimately,
a denunciation of consumerism and race for profit, an
invitation to measure our share of responsibility and to
act accordingly. The film is an attempt to plant a seed of
altruism in the hearts of people in the hope that it can
make a difference before it is too late.
finalist profiles - 360º All Things Forest
The Detour Tribal Life: Meet the Namal

Mill Valley Film Group Jungle School
Natural History New Zealand
A story of unsinkable family devotion, unfolding courage
Narrated by Robert Redford, this short film is part of the The lives, loves and everyday dramas of the Namal
Global Focus: The New Environmentalists series. tribe from Vanuatu’s Tanna Island unfold in this intimate
and revealing, funny and touching series that allows
Poland was in danger of losing its most precious audiences to experience life in one of the world’s last
ancient forest when Malgorzata Górska, a young untouched cultures.
environmental activist, led the fight against the Polish
government and the European Union to reroute a major At the end of the rainy season, Namal tribes’ people
highway that would have jeopardized the wildlife, launch a number of ambitious construction projects
waterways and vegetation in the pristine Rospuda which they use to teach their children traditional skills.
Valley. Yakel village rivals Tom and Touata are on competing
teams racing to build ladders to bypass a dangerous
Narrated by Robert Redford, this short film is part of path at a waterfall swimming hole. At Innouloul village,
the Global Focus: The New Environmentalists series. Chief Kuaru commissions a project dear to his heart
– a school for custom learning. Cultural leader Bosen
and his friend Solomon mastermind the construction
of a magnificent schoolhouse in a tree overlooking the
village. As whole communities combine their skills in
bush architecture, the youngsters learn about jungle life
through work as well as fun and games.
Forest facts
Trade in forest products was estimated at
$327 billion in 2004.

finalist profiles
Shorts
Awarded to the best forest film of less than 15 minutes in length.
category winner:
Man of the Soil (Nom Tew)

Deschamps Corporation
This poetic documentary is set on the diminutive

Caribbean island of Dominica. It is the portrait of Jerry
Maka West. He is a simple man, a Nom Tèw, Creole for
a man of the soil. Juxtaposed with the hustle and bustle
of city life on Dominica, Jerry Maka West works his
garden in the island’s lush interior, his Zion, growing and
preparing his food just as his grandparents once taught
him. The complexities of the modern world pass him
by as he skips in and out of it, circling around it, never
really being drawn into it, preferring instead to live
close to nature and to work hard putting just as much in
as he takes out. In harmony with a living earth, a nature
island, Jerry Maka West lives the kind of life most of
his contemporaries have forsaken, yet many would no
doubt envy in a world that has become a confusion of
questionable priorities and trivia.
The film was entirely shot in two days with a crew of

four, in completely natural conditions. “It was a blessing
to be accepted in Jerry Maka West’s difficult and lonely
life,” said director Pierre Deschamps. “ I hope that I
have portrayed it well.”
finalist profiles - shorts
Death of a Forest The Detour

Wild Visions, Inc. Mill Valley Film Group
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.

The Law of the Jungle Into the Inferno: Science of Fire

Mill Valley Film Group KQED-Quest
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.
Eduards and Jabini, are traditional Saramaka leaders

(descendants of African slaves). They successfully
organized their communities against logging by
Chinese multinationals on traditional Saramaka lands
in Suriname’s rain forests. This ultimately lead to a
landmark ruling in the international courts,
allowing indigenous and tribal peoples to control
resource exploitation in their territories throughout the
Americas.
Narrated by Robert Redford, this short film is part of

the Global Focus: The New Environmentalists series.
Forest facts
Forests store more than 1 trillion tons of carbon.
Voices of the Forest: Thailand Wild Places: Banff National Park

AsiaWorks Television Parks Canada
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.

films
48 Hours at Follensby 52 Weeks 5x5: Voices of Change

(52 Semanas) in the Forests of
Indonesia
Living Forests Living Forests 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
18 minutes IFFF-32 28 minutes IFFF-80 30 minutes IFFF-100

English Spanish with English subtitles Indonesian with English subtitles
USA Colombia Indonesia
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
The Wild Center Tropenbos International Colombia Handcrafted Films, Ltd.

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A Forest Returns: A Forestry Enchantment A Wedged Tale

The Success Story of (Bir Ormancilik Buyusu)
Ohio’s Only National
Forest
Forest Hero 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Living Forests

English Turkish English
USA Turkey Australia and New Zealand
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
Ohio Landscape Productions, Inc. General Directorate of Afforestation 19 Newfields Road

7 Robin Hill Lane and Erosion Control Exeter, NH 03833
Athens, OH 45701 Republic of Turkey Ministry of USA
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A Working Forest: A World Forest Africa’s Green Heart

Its Future with Fire, Adventure
People & Wildlife
360 Degrees on All Things Forest, Shorts This is My Forest

Issues & Solutions

English Russian, Chinese and English Spanish, French, Indonesian and English
USA Brazil, China and South Africa Africa
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
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Africa’s Lost Eden Africa’s Wild Eden Agroforestry
Issues & Solutions Forest Hero Issues & Solutions

English English English with Japanese subtitles
Mozambique Gabon Japan
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
National Geographic Television National Geographic Television Nibancho Center Building,5-25,

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films
Aigoual: Aliens of the Amazon: Amazon Alive:

Rebirth of a Forest Treehoppers Jungle of the Mind
Forest Hero Living Forests 360 Degrees on All Things Forest,

Living Forests

French English English, Spanish, German and Portugese
France Ecuador and USA Brazil and Peru
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
ARTIS Mona Lisa Production Light & Shadow GmbH

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films
Amazon Alive: Amazon Alive: America’s Wild

Hidden Secrets Forest of the Future Spaces:
Appalachian Trail
Living Forests Issues & Solutions, 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
This is My Forest

English, Spanish, German and Portugese English, Spanish, German and Portugese English
Brazil and Peru Brazil and Peru USA
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.
EXEC PRODUCER Joern Rover EXEC PRODUCER Joern Rover EXEC PRODUCER John Mernit,
PRODUCER Christian Baumeister, PRODUCER Christian Baumeister, Noah Morowitz
Britta Kiesewetter, Light & Shadow and Britta Kiesewetter, Light & Shadow and PRODUCER Brian Armstrong
NDR Naturfilm Production for NDR, NDR Naturfilm Production for NDR, CAMERA Brian Armstrong
Arte, ORF, Parthenon Entertainment Ltd. / Arte, ORF, Parthenon Entertainment Ltd. / EDITOR John Freeburn
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
COMPOSER Oliver Heuss COMPOSER Oliver Heuss
Light & Shadow GmbH Light & Shadow GmbH National Geographic Television
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films
Amyu: The Army of Angels of the Forest: Animal River

Wasp-Men Silky Sifaka Lemurs of Challenge:
Madagascar Day of the Caiman
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Forest Hero This is My Forest

French and Portuguese with English English English
subtitles
Brazil Madagascar and USA Guyana
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.
PRODUCER Manuel Catteau PRODUCER Sharon Pieczenik PRODUCER Pollmann Marion,

DIRECTOR Jerome Raynaud DIRECTOR Sharon Pieczenik Rainer Bergomaz
EDITOR Bertrand Collard CAMERA Sharon Pieczenik DIRECTOR Rainer Bergomaz,
WRITER Claude Valenta EDITOR Sharon Pieczenik Pollmann Marion
WRITER Sharon Pieczenik
ZED WYCTL Media ZDF Enterprises

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films
Back to the Roots Bark Beetle Blues, by Burning Bright

Oatmeal Stumble
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Shorts This is My Forest

English English English
India USA Ireland
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
COMPOSER Cathy Fitzgerald
The Energy and Resources Institute 1112 Park Avenue Raheen Cross
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films
Capital for the Canopy Celebrating Forest Chernobyl:

Health A Natural History?
Issues & Solutions Shorts Living Forests

Spanish, French, Creole and English English French, Russian and English with French
and English subtitles
El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, USA Ukraine
Honduras and Nicaragua
Capital for the Canopy is an appeal for Forest health and human health are a What is the explanation for the
the implementation of an international relationship. Plants, trees, and forests apparent resurgence of wildlife in
REDD (Reduced Emissions from make life possible for all creatures on Chernobyl? In the exclusion zone that
Deforestation and Degradation) this planet. Health is a circle of ex- is still forbidden to humans, in this
regime to allow developed countries changes with the earth’s forests, water, strange world where radiation shifts
seeking to meet emissions-reduction atmosphere, sun and all things that with the seasons, zoologists and
targets to transfer funds to exist. Especially important are critters radioecologists are making surprising
who meet their needs and benefit their
developing nations to preserve discoveries.
ecosystem. Such creatures, known as
standing forests. Through interviews
keystone species, are relatively few in
with Central American government number and vital players in the circle.
officials, professors, community When keystone species are removed or
leaders, environmental activists and die out, the local food chain simpli-
directors of non-profit organizations, fies and collapses. Wise indigenous
the film relates the story of the history people and farmers know humans
of forest degradation and how the can function as keystone species and
implementation of REDD currently produce a synergy of earth’s healing.
represents the best option for This healing progresses to the degree
reducing deforestation. we wisely protect and exchange with
the forest, and in return, the circle of
life gifts us. Stepping toward health is
a joyful celebration of resonance with
plants, trees, animals, birds, insects and
elements.
EXEC PRODUCER Christopher LaCasse EXEC PRODUCER William Evans PRODUCER Antoine Bamas
PRODUCER Christopher LaCasse PRODUCER William Evans DIRECTOR Luc Riolon
DIRECTOR Christopher LaCasse DIRECTOR William Evans CAMERA Jean-Marie Cornuel
CAMERA Dexter Ballard CAMERA Edgar Boyles, EDITOR Jean-Luc Guidoin
WRITER Christopher LaCasse Jonathan Kloberdanz, Krysia Carter-Giez, WRITER Antoine Bamas, Luc Riolon
William Evans, Greg Poschman
EDITOR Jonathan Kloberdanz
WRITER William Evans
University of Colorado at Boulder 565 Graceland Camera Lucida Productions

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films
Children of the Climate Change and Climbing Redwood

Amazon Forests: What You Giants
Need to Know and Do
Forest Hero Shorts Forest Hero

Portuguese with English subtitles English English
Brazil USA USA
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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films
Community Trees: Conflict Tiger Cotton-Top

A Living Investment (Cabeciblancos)
This is My Forest This is My Forest Issues & Solutions

English Russian with French and English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles
USA Russia Colombia
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.
PRODUCER Sasha Snow CO-PRODUCER Danny Schmidt

DIRECTOR Sasha Snow PRODUCER Federico Pardo
CAMERA Dirk Nel DIRECTOR Federico Pardo
EDITOR Sasha Snow CAMERA Federico Pardo, Danny Schmidt
WRITER Sasha Snow EDITOR Federico Pardo,
COMPOSER Juhana Riskala Miguel Alonso Mira
USDA Forest Service, NA, S&PF, Sasha Snow Film Production Tropico Films
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films
Cultivating Common Death of a Forest Disturbance

Ground: The Story
of the Lakeview
Stewardship Group
Issues & Solutions Shorts Issues & Solutions

USA USA USA
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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films
Do Elephants Pray? Double Bladed Axe Dwindling Forest: Dwin-

dling Future? Mangroves
+ Forest Peoples under
Threat in the Sundarans
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Forest Hero Shorts

French and English Spanish, French, Portuguese and English Bengali and English
subtitles
France Senegal Bangladesh
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
University of Illinois Forest Peoples Programme

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films
Equator: Finding David Douglas Fire in Cold Land

Rivers of the Sun
Living Forests Forest Hero 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

Brazil USA and Canada Portugal
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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films
Fire in the Balance Fire Memories FLEGT VPA Impacts
Living Forests This is My Forest 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

Portugal Portugal Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia and

United Kingdom
For a long time, fire has been used The memories of old Portuguese Examining the global effects of
as a tool by shepherds managing masters who have devoted their deforestation on communites and the
grazing land, but it has only recently lives to the forest are stories marked impacts the illegal timber trade has
become incorporated in forest by a strong spirit of sacrifice and on developing countries.
management in Portugal. The search dedication. With few resources
for balance in fire use for prevention available, they learned to fight fire
and suppression of wildfires is of with fire to defend their forests.
particular importance as prescribed These are the stories they tell.
fire is used as a tool in forest
management.
DIRECTOR Francisco Manso DIRECTOR Frederico Miranda DIRECTOR Paul Redman

EDITOR Francisco Manso CAMERA Pedro Patrocinio CAMERA Paul Redman
WRITER Francisco Castro Rego SOUND EDITOR Som de Lisboa EDITOR Tim Lewis
EDITOR Sergio Pedro
WRITER Frederico Miranda, Liliana Bento
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films
FLEGT VPA Political Forest (Metsa) Forest of Hope:

Film Kenya
Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

English Swahili with English subtitles
Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia and Finland Kenya

United Kingdom
Examing how European timber A look at the versatility and multiple, In Kitui the climate is predominately
companies and government are sustainable use in Finnish forests. dry throughout the year, as it is
implementing trade laws which will throughout most of the African
ban the import of illegal timber into continent. Therefore, life in Kitui
the European Union. has to be secured on many different
levels. The contribution of the women
is most impressive and would be
unthinkable without their strong
bond. 15 years ago, they formed
the ‘Group Under the Acacia Tree’
in order to cultivate tree nurseries
together. Trees and drinking water
are essential in that climate, not
only because of the wood, but also
because they preserve the fertility
of the soil. Wangari Maathai, who in
2004 received the Nobel Peace Prize,
had already addressed this issue in
the early 1980’s. The central topic of
the documentary is what became of
the reforestation in Kitui.
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
Handcrafted Films, Ltd. Finnish Forest Association Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion

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films
Forests Fight Back Forests for People: Forests for People:

An Introduction to Natural Heritage and
Community Forestry Economic Factor
in Germany
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest,
Shorts

English English, Spanish, French, Cambodian, German
Indonesian, Swahili and Nepalese
Uganda Democratic Republic of Congo Germany
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
International Institute for Environment Walter Kaul

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films
Freddie the Leaf Friends of Nature FROGS:

(Happa no Freddie) (Les Amis de la The Thin Green Line
Nature)
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Shorts Issues & Solutions

Japanese with English subtitles French with English subtitles English
Japan Gabon Australia, Panama and USA
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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films
Gabon: Getting REDD+ to Ghost Forest

Eden on the Edge Work: The Challenge
in DR Congo
Living Forests Issues & Solutions, 360 Degrees on All Things Forest
Shorts

English French and English English
Gabon Democratic Republic of Congo United Kingdom
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
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films
GoodWood Gorilla Murders Green
Issues & Solutions Living Forests 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

English No spoken language
Canada, Honduras, Mexico, United Democratic Republic of Congo Indonesia

Kingdom and USA
The question that lies at the heart of National Geographic Explorer Green is about deforestation in
the ongoing debate about the world’s investigates the execution-style Indonesia and the present extinction
forests is whether we can halt murder of six mountain gorillas of the orangutans.
deforestation while still sustaining in Virunga National Park. Their
communities that depend on the search reveals corruption and how
forest for their livelihood. GoodWood Virunga has become one of the most
looks at four forestry-based dangerous places on earth.
places where communities are
discovering - sometimes with help
from surprising quarters - that it can
be done. From a village chair-making
project in Honduras to a design
school in Nelson, B.C., and from
a community-based forestry in
Mexico to more than 3,000 items from
certified wood sold in a British retail
chain, vital links are being made to
keep people employed, while at the
same time preserving the world’s
forests.
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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films
Growth Rings: Gunung Walat University Hope

100 Proud Years of Forest: The Real Model
Canadian Forestry of Small Scale Sustain-
able Forest Management
Forest Hero Issues & Solutions Shorts

English with French subtitles Indonesian and English
Canada Indonesia Canada
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
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films
Hope in a Changing Human Planet: Indian Tiger

Climate Jungles
Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Issues & Solutions

Brazil, Cambodia, Central African
China and Rwanda Republic, India, Indonesia, Papua New India and United Kingdom
Guinea and Venezuela
This documentary demonstrates This dramatic program reveals how Indian Tiger follows the world-famous
that it is possible to rehabilitate humans forge a life within the planet’s Machli and her latest litter of
large-scale damaged ecosystems, most unexplored and untamed cubs, Satra, Athara and Unis, at
to restore ecosystem functions in places. Discover extraordinary Ranthambhore National Park in
areas where they have been lost, survival secrets, the partnerships India. As the cubs mature, the time
to fundamentally improve the lives they forge with plants and animals is drawing close for them to leave
of people who have been trapped and why the future of these people their mother’s side and venture into
in poverty for generations and to depends on the health of the forest. the forest wilderness to forge new
sequester carbon naturally. This See how the Matis use four meter territories of their own. Machli has
approach has been dramatically long blowpipes to hunt in the canopy. lived in her lakeside territory for ten
proven on the Loess Plateau in north Join Tete as he climbs a giant tree years, successfully defending her
central China, the highland area and negotiates swarms of bees to prime domain. The fertile area is a
spanning some 640,000 square km. It collect honey. Three children take tiger paradise, so it is unsuprising
is the birthplace of the Han Chinese, us deep into the jungle underworld when Satra, the eldest cub, begins
headwaters of the Yellow River and hunting for a super-sized, creepy, to follow in her mother’s feisty
home to a new environmental and crawly meal. The Korowai display footsteps, wanting to take over the
economic paradigm. A degraded their engineering skill building a lakeside territory. Shot in stunning
ecosystem of more than 35,000 high-rise home 35 meters in the trees high definition, the world of the Indian
square km of land now teems with and most memorable of all is a rare tigers is uncovered, showing tigers in
life and supports the sustainable and poignant glimpse of one of the all their glory, their secrets and battle
economic, social and agricultural world’s last un-contacted cultures. for survival.
activities of its people.
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
BBC Parthenon Entertainment Ltd.

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films
India’s Western Ghats: Into the Inferno: Into the Middle of

Forests in a Changing The Science of Fire Nowhere
Climate
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Shorts Shorts

English English
India USA United Kingdom
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
KQED-QUEST Bozener Strasse 23

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films
Justice in the Forests Kalpavriksha: Kingdom of the Forest

Legacy of the Forests
Forest Hero 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Living Forests

Vietnamese and English English English
Ghana, Uganda and Vietnam India United Kingdom
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
International Institute for Environment Parthenon Entertainment, Ltd.

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films
Kodama: Forest of the Kurumbas: Children of Lamentation of the

Tree Spirits the Blue Mountain Forest
360 Degrees on All Things Forest, 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Issues & Solutions
Forest Hero

English English English and Malay
Australia India Sarawak
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.
PRODUCER Kumi Kato DIRECTOR Mike Pandey PRODUCER Junichi Mishiba

DIRECTOR Simon Wearne, Kumi Kato WRITER Mike Pandey CAMERA Shinsuke Nakai
CAMERA Kumi Kato
COMPOSER Rom Orlev Lifschiitz
Stripey Dog Productions Friends of the Earth Japan

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films
Last Stand of the Latin America’s Green Law of the Jungle

Great Bear Heart
Living Forests This is My Forest Shorts

English Spanish, French, Indonesian and English English
Canada Brazil and Peru Suriname
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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films
Life Force: Life in a Vibrant Life in Harmony with

New Zealand Satoyama Forest Nature: Finland -
Secrets of the Forest
Living Forests Shorts 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

English Japanese with English subtitles English
New Zealand Japan Finland
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
NHNZ United Nations University NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.)

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films
Lives of the Forest Lurking in the Trees Magic in the Forest
Issues & Solutions Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

Cambodian, Ilocano, Thai and English English English
Philippines USA USA
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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Man of the Soil Masters of Fire Monteverde Now:

(Nom Tew) Voices from the
Frontlines of Change
Shorts Forest Hero This is My Forest

Creole English English with Spanish subtitles
Dominica Portugal Costa Rica
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
www.listenup.org
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films
Morikiki: Mountains, My Forestry Mystery Gorillas

Students and Sages
360 Degrees on All Things Forest This is My Forest Living Forests

Japanese with English subtitles English English
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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films
Nature’s Greatest North-Eastern Diaries Oka Jeni:

Defender Cameroon’s Forest
Peoples Speak Out
Forest Hero This is My Forest This is My Forest

English Hindi and English French and English
Brazil, India, Rwanda, United Kingdon India Cameroon

and USA
Nature’s Greatest Defender tells the Join Sandesh Kadur as he goes on The Congo Basin rainforest is the
story about one man’s passionate a mission to document the natural second largest in the world and
fight to save our world. It’s a film and cultural treasures of the Eastern highly threatened by commercial
about his unwavering dedication Himalaya. For years, this region exploitation. Almost all Congo
to the incredible wildlife that we was considered too volatile and Basin forests also overlap the
must continually struggle to protect. dangerous to allow outsiders. As a traditional territories of extremely
George Schaller returns to the sites result, very little was known of the poor and politically disenfranchised
of some of his iconic studies to see wildlife and people of this region. In local communities, especially
what has happened to some of these this series of short films, Sandesh hunter-gatherer Pygmy communities
extraordinary animals and their Kadur, a wildlife photographer who rely upon forests for their
habitats. Along the way, we will meet and filmmaker with a passion for livelihoods. Traditional conservation
some of the people he influenced and conservation explores these remote methods targeting these biodiverse
see how they have managed to carry regions on a quest to document some areas where indigenous peoples
the torch Schaller lit. of the rare inhabitants from golden typically live are based upon the
langurs to clouded leopards in a concept of ‘fortress conservation,’
hitherto unseen region of India. involving armed forest patrols
charged with keeping the forests
clear of people. In this film,
indigenous forest communities from
Cameroon discuss the impact of this
approach on their human rights, land
tenure and culture.
EXEC PRODUCER Thomas Veltre, PRODUCER Sandesh Kadur Kadur DIRECTOR John Nelson
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
The Really Interesting Picture Felis Creations Pvt., Ltd Forest Peoples Programme
Company, Ltd. #295 39th ‘C’ Cross 10th Main Road 1c Fosseway Business Centre
33-21 163rd Street 5th Block, Jayanagar Moreton in Marsh GL56 9NQ
Flushing, NY 11358 USA Bangalore, Karnataka 560041 United Kingdom
India
(646) 797 3171
tom.veltre@thereallyinterestingpicture +91 94 4805 9209 +44 16 0866 2281
company.com kadur.sandesh@gmail.com annabelle@forestpeoples.org

films
Once I Counted Birds Once There was a Ora E. Anderson:

Rainforest (C’etait la The Soul of the Woods
Foret des Pluies)
Shorts Shorts This is My Forest
1 minute IFFF-149 9 minutes IFFF-111 20 minutes IFFF-3

English French English
Ireland French Guiana USA
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
www.ohiolandscape.org
Raheen Cross Wild-Touch Ohio Landscape Productions, Inc.

Borris, County Carlow 0000 Chemin du Mont 7 Robin Hill Lane
Ireland Turgon, Druillat 1160 Athens, OH 45701
France USA
+353 58 7285 7129 +33 62 010 3646 (740) 593 6968

cathyart@gmail.com schikorr@wanadoo.fr andrewj4@ohio.edu
films
Orangutan Island: Out of the Ashes PEFC: The World’s

Cheating Extinction Largest Environmental
Movement (Maailman
Suurin Ymparistoliike)
Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Issues & Solutions

English Finnish
Borneo Australia Finland
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.
EXEC PRODUCER Judith Curran PRODUCER Tony Wright

DIRECTOR Chris Kugelman DIRECTOR Dione Gilmour
SOUND EDITOR Stacey Hertnon CAMERA David Parer, Cameron Davies
EDITOR Zane Holmes, Karen Jackson EDITOR Cathal Geaney
COMPOSER Dale Cornelius
NHNZ December Films Finnish Forest Association

5 Melville Street Level 1, 462 City Road Salomonkatu 17 A
Dunedin, Otago 9016 South Melbourne, VIC 3205 Helsinki 100
New Zealand Australia Finland
+64 3 479 9799 +61 3969 98911 +358 50 351 2415

nodendaal@nhnz.tv matt@decemberfilms.com.au kai.lintunen@smy.fi

films
Pioneers of Green Gold in Plant Plague: Play Again

the Peruvian Andes Sudden Oak Death
(Les Pionniers de l’or
Vert des Andes du Perou)
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Shorts 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

Spanish with French and Dutch subtitles English English with Catalan subtitles
Peru USA USA
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
www.independentintervention.com
Spalywood KQED Ground Productions

Avenue Docteur Pierre Gaspar 22 2601 Mariposa Street PMB 205
SPA, Liege 4900 San Francisco, CA 94131 4110 S. E. Hawthorne Blvd.
Belgium USA Portland, OR 97214 USA
+32 87 771 627 (415) 553 2835 (971) 570 3696

info@spalywood.be seris@kqed.org tonje@groundproductions.com
films
Rainforest Partnership Rainforest: Recreating the

The Secret of Life Country
Issues & Solutions 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Shorts

Spanish and English English English
Ecuador, Peru and USA Australia Australia
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.
PRODUCER Michel Scott PRODUCER David Warth DIRECTOR Stephen Oakes

DIRECTOR Michel Scott DIRECTOR David Warth CAMERA Stephen Oakes
CAMERA David Warth SOUND EDITOR Stephen Oakes
EDITOR Michael Balson EDITOR Stephen Oakes
P.O. Box 49268 David Warth Productions PO Box 48

Austin, TX 78765 1 Centennial Circuit Meredith, VIC 3333
USA Byron Bay NSW 2481 Australia Australia
(831) 325 6190 +42 980 9130 +41 218 0611

maurine@rainforestpartnership.org davidwarthproductions@yahoo.com stepheno69@bigpond.com

films
Redwoods: In the Rhythms in the Clouds: River Dog

Shadow of Giants Biodiversity and
Conservation in
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Living Forests Living Forests This is My Forest

USA Costa Rica New Zealand
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
Camera One Apartado 1240-2150 145 Verner Street

8523 15th Avenue NE Moravia Geelong, VIC 3220
Seattle, WA 98115 San Jose, SJ 12402 Australia
USA Costa Rica
(206) 523 3456 (506) 2645 5395 +03 52 222 050

cameraone@prodigy.net markwainwright@racsa.co.cr dohunter@gmail.com
films
River to Reef Ross Kemp: Rwanda:

Battle for the Amazon Back to the Garden
Issues & Solutions Issues & Solutions Living Forests

Belize Brazil, Ecuador and Peru Kenya
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
CO-PRODUCER Lee Mcloughlin EXEC PRODUCER Clive Tulloh, Ross Kemp

PRODUCER Suzan Al-Doghaci PRODUCER Tom Watson
DIRECTOR Robert Flanagan DIRECTOR Southan Morris
Ya’axche Conservation Trust Tiger Aspect Productions

#2 Alejandro Vernon Street 5 Soho Square
Punta Gorda, Toledo London W1D 3QA
Belize United Kingdom China
+501 722 0108 +44 20 7544 1915

lee.mcloughlin@yaaxche.org ellywarner@tigeraspect.co.uk augenstein@eemp.org

films
Satoyama: Science on the SPOT: Sea To Peak

Japan’s Secret Forest Albino Redwoods,
Ghosts of the Forest
Living Forests Shorts Shorts

English English No spoken words
Japan USA Canada
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
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) KQED Parks Canada Agency

2-2-1 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku 2601 Mariposa Street 25 Eddy Street
Tokyo 150 8001 San Francisco, CA 94131 Gatineau, QC K1A 0M5
Japan USA Canada
+8 13 5455 4279 (415) 553 2835 (819) 934 0037

s01608-miyake@nhk.or.jp seris@kqed.org louis.lavoie@pc.gc.ca
films
Secrets of the Seeing Red Setting Footprints on

Flooded Forest the Borders
Living Forests This is My Forest Issues & Solutions

English
Austria USA China
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.
PRODUCER Heinrich Mayer PRODUCER David Gonzales

DIRECTOR Franz Hafner DIRECTOR David Gonzales
EDITOR Roland Buzzi
WRITER Franz Hafner
Walter Jurmann Gasse 4 Snaz Media, LLC. State Forestry Administration,

Vienna 1230 654 S. Millward Street of P.R. China
Austria P.O. Box 8998 No.18 Hepingli East Street Beijing
Jackson, WY 83002 Dongcheng District
USA Beijing 100714 China
+43 1 8012 0420 (307) 690 4812 +86 (10) 84238960

mayer@interspot.at david@thesnaz.com yangam@forestry.gov.cn
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films
Song of the Forest Speed of Life: Central Switch Today

American Killers
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Living Forests Shorts
57 minutes IFFF-41 44 minutes IFFF-93 1 minute IFFF-38

English English English Subtitles
No spoken words
Taiwan Costa Rica USA
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
www.gurneyproductions.com
Public Television Service, Taiwan Gurney Productions 118 Echo Avenue, #2

No.100, Lane 75, Sec.3, Kang Ning Rd. 8929 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 510 Oakland, CA 94611
Taipei 114 Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA
Taiwan USA
+886 2 2633 8037 (310) 645-1450 (650) 814 3145

ptsfestival@gmail.com jpuga@gurneyproductions.com arjunrihan@gmail.com
films
Taking Root: Ten Facts about the The Ancient Forests

The Vision of Wise Man’s Timber
Wangari Maathi
360 Degrees All Things Forest Shorts Shorts

English, Kishwahili, Gikuyu and Bukusu English English
with English subtitles
Kenya and United Kingdom China
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.
PRODUCER Lisa Merton, Alan Dater PRODUCER Eski Thomas,

DIRECTOR Lisa Merton, Alan Dater Amanda Temple
CAMERA Alan Dater, Tyler Gibbons, DIRECTOR Julien Temple
Eddah Kiruhi, Gichuru Ngoima,
Roshika Dater-Merton
EDITOR Mary Lampson, Tom Haneke,
Jim Klein, Alan Dater
COMPOSER Samite
www.takingrootfilm.com
Marlboro Productions International Network for Bamboo Greenpeace UK

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films
The Big UP Deal The Cheslatta The Detour

Community Forest
Shorts Shorts 360 Degrees All Things Forest,

Shorts

USA Canada Poland
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.
PRODUCER David McGowan PRODUCER David Springbett PRODUCER John Antonelli

DIRECTOR David McGowan DIRECTOR David Springbett DIRECTOR John Antonelli
EDITOR Mike Brockway SOUND EDITOR -Zo CAMERA Jim Iacona
EDITOR -Zo SOUND EDITOR Piotr Sadinski
EDITOR Todd Miro
COMPOSER David Siegler
www.mvfg.com
Ravenswood Media Ashnan Films/ Asterisk Productions Mill Valley Film Group
410 S. Michigan Avenue 977 Hampshire Road 31 East Pier, Kappas Marina
#934 Victoria, BC V8S 4S3 Sausalito, CA 94965
Chicago, IL 60605 USA Canada USA
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films
The Fog Genie The Forbidden Forest The Forest: Realm of

of the Dayak Shadows
Living Forests Shorts 360 Degrees on All Things Forest

Mandarin with English subtitles Spanish, Russian, Japanese and English
subtitles
Taiwan Borneo Germany
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
Public Television Service, Taiwan United Nations University nautilusfilm GmbH

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films
The Forests of Yoshino The Incomappleux The Lost Forest
Shorts This is My Forest Forest Hero

Japanese and English English English
Japan Canada Philippines
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.
CO-PRODUCER Megumi Nishikura PRODUCER Riel Marquardt PRODUCER Tara Watney

PRODUCER Kaori Brand DIRECTOR Riel Marquardt DIRECTOR Tara Watney
DIRECTOR Kaori Brand, CAMERA Tara Watney
Megumi Nishikura EDITOR Catalin Brylla
EDITOR Megumi Nishikura COMPOSER Alan Gibson
United Nations University 530 Monterey Road 7 Heywood Farm Barns

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onlinelearning@unu.edu riel@bcbackroads.ca tarawatney@me.com
films
The Man Who The McBride The New Frontier

Stopped the Desert Community Forest
Forest Hero Shorts Forest Hero

French and English English English
Burkina Faso Canada USA
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.
PRODUCER Mark Dodd PRODUCER David Springbett CO-PRODUCER Melinda Levin,

DIRECTOR Mark Dodd DIRECTOR David Springbett Irene Klaver
CAMERA Mark Dodd SOUND EDITOR -Zo DIRECTOR Melinda Levin, Irene Klaver
EDITOR Tim Wright EDITOR -Zo
WRITER Mark Dodd
COMPOSER David Poore
1080 Film & TV, Ltd. Ashnan Films/ Asterisk Productions

26 Blackthorn Way 977 Hampshire Road
Poringland NR14 7WD Victoria, BC V8S 4S3
United Kingdom Canada USA
+44 84 5418 1338 (250) 480 5256 (940) 300 9744

markdodd@1080films.co.uk asterisk@islandnet.com melinda@unt.edu

films
The Philippine Eagle: The Queen of Trees The Salamander

A Wildlife Paradox
Conservation Odyssey
Forest Hero Living Forests Issues & Solutions

Philippines Kenya Portugal
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
(805) 969 0191 +44 17 3679 6978 35 121 365 3333

jhcroft@yahoo.com vicky@deeblestone.com lilianaleonorb@gmail.com
films
Tracking Raindrops Trading Bows and Trees in Local Hands

Arrows for Laptops
Shorts Shorts Issues & Solutions

English Portuguese and English English
USA Brazil Ghana and United Kingdom
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?
PRODUCER Amy Miller PRODUCER Denise Zmekhol DIRECTOR Dominic Elliot

DIRECTOR Denise Zmekhol SOUND EDITOR Dominic Elliot
CAMERA Juarez Pavelak
EDITOR Marta Wohl
www.zdfilms.com
KQED ZD Films International Institute for Environment

2601 Mariposa Street 2600 Tenth Street, Suite 614 and Development (IIED)
San Francisco, CA 94131 Berkeley, CA 94710 United Kingdom
USA USA
(415) 553 2835 (415) 378 7436 +44 20 7388 2117

seris@kqed.org denise@zdfilms.com leianne.rolington@iied.org

films
Tribal Life: Meet the Unsung Heroes of Voices of the Forest:

Namal Jungle School Mt. Jade Sulawesi
360 Degrees on All Things Forest Forest Hero Issues & Solutions,
360 Degrees All Things Forest,
Forest Hero
Mandarin with English subtitles Indonesian and English
Vanuatu Taiwan Indonesia
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
+64 3 479 9799 +886 2 2633 8037 +66 2940 5700

nodendaal@nhnz.tv ptsfestival@gmail.com phinyada@recoftc.org
films
Voices of the Forest: Wetland Conservation Wild Places:

Thailand in China Banff National Park
Shorts, 360 Degrees on All Things Forest Shorts

This is My Forest,
Forest Hero
English, Thai with English subtitles English
Thailand China Canada
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?
EXEC PRODUCER Susan Mackay PRODUCER Adam Greenberg

PRODUCER Craig Knowles DIRECTOR Adam Greenberg
CAMERA Marc Laban
SOUND EDITOR Michael Glowacki
EDITOR Michael Glowacki
WRITER Craig Knowles
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
+66 2940 5700 +86 (10) 84238960 (819) 934 0037

phinyada@recoftc.org yangam@forestry.gov.cn louis.lavoie@pc.gc.ca
films
Wild Russia: Yosemite Nature

Kamchatka Notes: Big Trees
Living Forests Shorts
43 minutes IFFF-147 8 minutes IFFF-4

English
Russian Federation USA
Kamchatka, in Russia’s far east, is a Most of Yosemite National Park is

land cloaked in secrecy. The Soviets blanketed with vast forests. With
banned travel to this region for abundant precipitation and warm
military reasons but even today, with temperatures, these mountains
the borders open, it is so remote that are home to the largest trees in the
only the most adventurous venture world. The Mariposa Grove of Giant
to this faraway land. Wild Russia: Sequoias was first protected in 1864
Kamchatka journeys into the heart and this forest of Big Trees is one of
of this extraordinary wilderness, the reasons that we have national
bringing you face to face with the parks, today.
world’s largest brown bears and
the rarest eagle on earth. Here,
volcanic eruptions light up the night,
magnificent geysers spew boiling
water sixty feet into the air and
wildlife remains untouched by the
21st century. This is Kamchatka: land
of fire and ice.
EXEC PRODUCER Amanda Theunissen, PRODUCER Steven Bumgardner

Carl Hall, Trish Mitchell, Lori Gibson, DIRECTOR Steven Bumgardner
Dawn Sinsel CAMERA Steven Bumgardner
PRODUCER Dan Habershon-Butcher EDITOR Steven Bumgardner
EDITOR Katrin Ducker, Klaus Muller,
Omar Teitelbaum
WRITER Trish Mitchell, Stephen Zorn
Animal Planet National Park Service

1 Discovery Place P.O. Box 1073
8th Floor Three Rivers, CA 93271
Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
USA
(240) 662 2946 (559) 565 3949

melissa_berry@discovery.com s_bumgardner@hotmail.com

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film guide

U.N. Forum on Forests Secretariat 2

International forest film festival

The United Nations Forum International Year of Forests

International Year of Forests 2011

The theme of Forests 2011 is “Forests for People,”

2011 fo rest film festi val 3

Andrew Jackson, Head Laura Orthwein, Vice President

Gerhard Klein Janine Baker, VP, Distribution & Development

Marjorie Kaplan, President and General Manager Staff

Shin-ichi Murata, Executive Producer Festival Director

2011 fo rest film festi val 5

Shane Moore is a freelance filmmaker with over twenty-five years experience

Cristina Mittermeier is the President and Founder of the International League of

More than 60 preliminary judges

Holly Balogh Kyle James

2011 fo rest film festi val 7

alphabetical Do Elephants Pray? 42

Last Stand of the Great Bear 55 Sea To Peak 67

2011 fo rest film festi val 9

By Category Forest Hero

GoodWood 49 Secrets of the Flooded Forest 68

2011 fo rest film festi val 11

The Law of the Jungle 55

The Queen of Trees

The beauty of Africa’s wilderness sometimes depends on the most delicate

2011 fo rest film festi val 13

Special jury awards

Recognizing an outstanding integration of the In recognition of the inspiration and impact an

Amazon Alive: The Man Who Stopped the Desert

Special jury awards

Recognizing unique and effective communication through short form PSAs.

The Ancient Forests Switch Today

2011 fo rest film festi val 15

Conflict Tiger Amazon Alive:

Seeing Red Voices of the Forest: Thailand

2011 fo rest film festi val 17

Kingdom of the Forest Chernobyl: A Natural History?

Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Forest Secrets of the Flooded Forest

2011 fo rest film festi val 19

Issues & Solutions

Hope in a Changing Climate Africa’s Lost Eden

Amazon Alive: Forest of the Future GoodWood

2011 fo rest film festi val 21

© NGHT, LLC and National Geographic Society

Climbing Redwood Giants

They are living giants, one of Earth’s largest and oldest

Climbing Redwood Giants reveals the little-explored

As Sillett investigates redwoods up in their towering

Africa’s Wild Eden Nature’s Greatest Defender

Now, Fay and National Geographic photographer,

2011 fo rest film festi val 23

360º All Things Forest

Green America’s Wild Spaces:

The Detour Tribal Life: Meet the Namal

2011 fo rest film festi val 25

Man of the Soil (Nom Tew)

This poetic documentary is set on the diminutive

The film was entirely shot in two days with a crew of

Death of a Forest The Detour

2011 fo rest film festi val 27

The Law of the Jungle Into the Inferno: Science of Fire