Penny Stallings, ecology.com’s Species Curator and noted cultural commentator, offers her views on ten animated movies, whose casts of colorful, cuddly creatures entertain and enlighten audiences about the environment. - Bridget Terry, ecoFilmmaking Curator
Top Ten Animated...
Mar
20
Kilimanjaro, To the Roof of Africa leads Ecology Global Network’s 52-week “Eco-doc” television series for China Green Channel International (CGCI) in China, premiering Sunday, February 19, 2012. The film, shot in large format, follows five intrepid trekkers and their guide, who...
Feb
17
The Tree of Life. Credit Fox Searchlight
The Descendants. Credit Fox Searchlight
Le Quattro Volte. Credit Lorber Films
Contagion. Credit Claudette Barius/ Warner Bros
2011 offered four remarkable narrative films – two still in theaters – thematically rooted in our complex relationship(s) with...
Dec
27
With “Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie,” writer/director Sturla Gunnarsson has managed to weave a brilliant environmental lecture with the fascinating life of the man doing the lecturing, creating a provocative mix of science and emotion in the process.
The film begins with a...
Dec
03
Males 18-34 targeted at Film Festival
Even before it was officially announced the winner, Lord of Recycling, an entry at last week’s Trailer Trashed Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada, had already gone viral, with over 30,000 hits after it was featured on Wired Magazine’s web site.
The second...
Oct
27
Film Review by Lisa Rosen
The title alone conjures up a biblical vision of tranquil harmony. Nature at its most pure and innocent. The first images of The Garden may be more prosaic, but they nonetheless support that idea. A man, weathered by the years and by physical labor, wakes up before dawn...
Aug
18
Film review by Lisa Rosen
Dolphins hold a special place in the hearts of almost anyone who comes across them. I call them the fireworks of the sea, because whenever beachgoers are lucky enough to see one leaping through the water, they actually ooh and ahh as if they were watching the skies light...
Jul
31
