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Solutions for a Warming Planet
Energy Film Festival
LIGHTS. CAMERA. ENERGY.
All films available through 2008!
The Sierra Club is bringing the excitement of film festivals to cities across the country. Launched in 2006, the Solutions for a Warming Planet festival continues through 2008. You provide your love of film and desire to build a sustainable energy future, we'll provide the films, inspiration and blueprint.
Current festivals are focusing on COAL and Energy. Today coal-fired power plants provide almost half of our nation's power- and almost 40 percent of the United States' annual carbon dioxide emissions, making them a major contributor to global warming. Despite those facts, the coal industry continues to plan more than 100 new coal-fired power plants around the country. Learn more about the impact of coal on land, communities and our environment with these great films below.
Additional new films will be added in the third quarter focusing on global warming, and then to end the year on a positive note we'll have new films all about solutions.
Want to know if a festival is planned in your area? Contact your local chapter to see if they one in the works.
More questions? Want to host a festival?
Contact screening.info@sierraclub.org.
The Appalachians | Fighting Goliath - Texas Coal Wars |
Mountain Top Removal | Rise-Up West Virginia |
Mountain Mourning | Burning the Future: Coal in America | Homeland | Coal Earth Home | Kilowatt Hours | Faith and MTR
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Issues/topic:The section we have selected of this compelling film about the past, present and future of Appalachia for the Sierra Club Energy Film Festival is the powerful segment about MTR (mountain-top removal) in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia. (20 minutes)
Website: sierraclub.org/appalachia
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Issues/topic:Narrated by Robert Redford and produced by Alpheus Media, the film follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air and centers around the unlikely partners- mayors, ranchers, lawyers, cities, citizens, green groups, and CEO's-that came together to oppose the construction of 18 coal-fired power plants that were slated to be built in Eastern and Central Texas and being fast-tracked by the Texas Governor. (34 minutes) 2008 Alpheus Media
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Issues/topic:Starting with Mountain Justice Summer activists and Coal River valley residents Ed Wiley, Maria Gunnoe, and Larry Gibson. The feature documentary film also includes Judy Bonds, Big Coal author Jeff Goodell, West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin and more. Produced and directed by Michael C O'Connell. (74 minutes) 2007, Haw River Films
Website: www.hawriverfilms.com/id2.html
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Issues/topic:Filmmaker B. J. Gudmundsson takes a personal journey from her life-long home in the eastern mountains of West Virginia to the southern coalfields of her beloved state. Once there, she joins the Mountain Keepers who have been fighting a 20-year battle to save their homes from the destructive practice of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. The stories of struggle and visions of hope open a door to the complex issue that is threatening the future of West Virginia. (73 minutes) 2008 PatchWork Films
Website: www.patchworkfilms.com/wvhills.htm
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Issues/topic:In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, a coal-mining process known as Mountaintop Removal is devastating God's creation. Demand for electricity overshadows weak environmental laws. Coal industry profits outweigh quality of life. As our oldest mountaintops vanish, the people are left behind. Having paid the highest price - they are abandoned in what is called "the sacrifice zone." Bonus short films:
"The Mountain Mourning Collection" , "Mountain Mourning" , "Look What They've Done", "Keeper of the Mountains", "A Call to Action" and "Bringing Down the Mountains" excerpts. (78 minutes total) 2006, BJ Gunmundsson
Website: www.patchworkfilms.com/mm_dvd.htm
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Issues/topic:This film examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life. (89 minutes) 2008, David Novak
Website: www.burningthefuture.org/
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Issues/topic: "Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action", is a ninety-minute documentary, that takes a hard look at the stories of five remarkable Native American activists in four communities who are fighting the "new Indian Wars." (88 minutes)
Website: www.katahdin.org
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Issues/topic:Filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers solutions to America's energy related problems. (38 minutes)
Website: www.kilowattours.org
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Issues/topic:Local residents discuss their connection with the land and their faith and their sorrow of the devastation that mountaintop removal has done to their communities. (6 minutes) 2008 Evening Star Productions
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Oil on Ice | Crude Impact | Native Wind | A Land Out of Time |
Out of Balance | The True Cost of Food | Range Wars |
Wind Over Water
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Issues/topic:"Oil on Ice" is an intimate portrayal of the native Gwich'in Indians taking on powerful global energy interests to prevent invasive oil operations in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's fragile caribou calving grounds. (50 minutes)
Website: www.oilonice.org
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Issues/topic:A powerful and timely exploration of the interconnection between human domination of the planet and the discovery and use of oil, the documentary CRUDE IMPACT exposes our deep-rooted dependency on the availability of fossil fuel energy and examines the dire implications of the pending threat of global peak oil. (98 minutes)
Website: www.crudeimpact.com
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Issues/topic:Native American tribes on the northern Great Plains can harness enough wind energy to provide our nation with one-third of all annual electricity consumption. This one-minute PSA introduces the subject of the first utility-scale wind turbine erected on tribal lands. (1 minute)
Website: www.nativewind.org
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Issues/topic: Time is running out for vast swaths of the Rocky Mountain West as millions of acres of public land are exploited for oil & gas drilling. Westerners on the land for generations expose the dramatic changes to the landscape and their heritage and spark a backlash. Just who is in charge of our public lands, the oil & gas industry or the American people? (28 minutes)
Website: www.aLandOutOfTime.com
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Issues/topic:This film shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media and citizens and what can be done about global warming. "Out of Balance" does not just critique ExxonMobil, it also offers challenging, large-scale ideas for the global social changes that must take place if there's any chance of having a livable planet for future generations. (60 minutes)
Website: www.worldoutofbalance.org
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Issues/topic: Food issues are heavy. This animated video takes a light approach to explaining the hidden costs of mass-produced food and about alternatives that are kinder to the planet. (15 minutes)
Website: www.truecostoffood.org
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Issues/topic: In the West, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed increased drilling and drilling practices that are killing ranchers' cattle; this beautifully shot documentary follows a coalition of ranchers including Republicans and Bush supporters in New Mexico who are fighting back. (28 minutes)
Website: www.sierraclub.org/tv/episode-range.asp
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Issues/topic: In November 2001, Cape Wind Associates of Boston announced plans for America's first offshore windfarm-Almost immediately, a battle between environmentalists and residents on the Cape was born. Journalist Ole Tangen, Jr. was on hand to chronicle the fight in this fascinating documentary about land and the future of renewable energy. (15 minutes)
Website: www.windoverwater.org
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