Feature Films

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Public Trust

USA, 2020, 96 min.

Our public lands are a complicated mix of good intentions and shady deals, which this documentary does its damndest to explain. What we learn is that very little is straightforward in this murky world as various entities, including politicians, ranchers, extractionists, and outdoor enthusiasts, all jockey for some part of what rightly belongs to every American. Narrated by Robert Redford and executive produced by Yvon Chouinard with Patagonia, Public Trust weaves together an assortment of stories, connected by the indefatigable journalist, Hal Herring. Working tirelessly to shine a light on the chicanery involved with public lands, Herring also shows us why they matter - or should matter so much to each of us.

DIR David Byars

PROD Jeremy Rubingh

Racing Extinction

USA, 2015, 94 min., Color

Louie Psihoyos’s The Cove exposed viewers to the brutal practice of dolphin slaughter. The Academy Award-winning director now bears witness to a global problem: mankind’s role in precipitating mass extinction, potentially resulting in the loss of half of the world’s species. Psihoyos joins forces with activists, scientists, nature photographers, and cutting-edge inventors to draw attention to the dangers we face. While covert operations reveal the horrific black-market trade in endangered aquatic species, the film’s broader lens uncovers the even more disastrous consequences of human activity, chiefly the release of ocean-killing methane and carbon from energy consumption. With stakes as high as the survival of life on the planet, Racing Extinction is an urgent, affirming call to action to stem the tide before it’s too late.

DIR Louie Psihoyos

The Great Green Wall

USA, 2019, 91 min.

This documentary pulses with energy and purpose as it follows the Malian singer, Inna Modja, on her ambitious and inspiring journey across Africa. Her mission is to help build a green wall of trees that will start to offset the desertification happening in the Sahel region that is particularly feeling the effects of climate change. It is not an easy journey. There are multiple challenges from skeptics and other oppositions, but Modja is formidable and will not be defeated. Ultimately, this will be an 8000-kilometer edifice, the largest natural structure in the world, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef. It is well on its way, so far, having built fifteen percent, proving determination can conquer the seemingly impossible.

DIR Jared P. Scott

PROD Sarah Macdonald, Nick North, Charly Feldman, Jared P. Scott

The Story Of Plastic

USA, 2019, 89 min.

In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, is told by a family friend, that the future is plastics. How right he was. And how unfortunate that he was so right because single-use plastics have such a pernicious effect on our lives, it is often hard to comprehend. The Story of Plastic works to help us understand the scope and scale of this global scourge. Produced with the same folks who made the widely-seen Story of Stuff, this documentary takes us around the globe to see how plastic has taken over our world, having a deleterious impact that is far beyond anything imagined by screenwriters more than 50 years ago.

DIR Deia Schlosberg

PROD Deia Schlosberg, Stiv Wilson, Megan Ponder, Kyle Cadotte