An unique festival night. Each film is the best of the best of ENVIRONMENTAL films from around the world in the last year.
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Film: BEEKIND
Best Documentary: FIELD REPORT | FLACK FAMILY FARM
Best Sound & Music: WINGS OF GOLD
Best Story: Jane Brinton | Water Bearers to Indigenous Tribes of Ecuador
Best Music Video: Kazbegi
Best Cinematography: 2124
FIELD REPORT | FLACK FAMILY FARM, 15min., USA
Directed by Travis Limoge
Nestled in the hills of Enosburg Falls, Vermont Flack Family Farm has been contributing to the vibrance of their community through their symbiotic work in the soil for nearly a half a century. their tradition of producing ferments using their bio-dynamically grown vegetables sustains the farm and the families that work it as a value added product that supports their holistic approach to nurturing the soil and those that subside on it.
Wings Of Gold, 6min., India
Directed by Sanjeev Venkataramanan, Navaneeth Krishnan
Presenting Wings of Gold – A Symphonic Thillana in Hamir Kalyani —a groundbreaking musical experience where the grandeur of symphonic orchestration meets the timeless beauty of Carnatic music.
Jane Brinton | Water Bearers to Indigenous Tribes of Ecuador, 10min., USA
Directed by Hernán Salcedo
Jane Brinton is the CEO and co-founder of The Waterbearers, a global non-profit that has funded clean water initiatives in 34 countries. Brinton, who left behind a highly successful career in the music industry, has traveled to some of the most remote places on the planet to distribute and train indigenous communities how to use life-saving Sawyer filter systems to clean their polluted water. In the film, we follow Jane as she treks into a secluded community in the Amazon Basin to provide a tribe, sickened by industrial run-off pollution that has poisoned their water source upstream, the ingenious filtration tool that will provide them with clean water for the next decade.
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Kazbegi, 5min., Slovakia
Directed by Yakiv Antypenko
Set to a traditional folk song recorded live at a Georgian wedding, this short documentary immerses viewers in the natural and cultural rhythm of the Kazbegi region. With no narration, the film focuses on the detailed sound design and visual atmosphere — where every insect and breeze plays like an instrument in a living orchestra.
Beekind, 11min., Canada
Directed by Olivia Bronwyn
Follow Gregg Scott and the keepers of Circling Hawk Honey & Mead, as we’re taken under their wing to get an up-close look at the species so relied upon by our kind. Beekind gives insight on the nature of the honeybee as a member of the colony, their interactions and relationships to each other and to humans, as we look within, and take one big sustainable step back. We’re welcomed into Circling Hawk, the business and home of Gregg and Michelle Scott, our owners and operators, and caretakers of the 25 acres of land. Alongside their two protégé’s Julia and John, they take us on their journey as stewards, artists, and guides to the life they lead at the apiary. A life of peace, love, and earthly balance.
I’m Trying, 33min., Canada
Directed by Raymond Cruzzola
I’m Trying is a powerful portrait of Regan Russell — an animal rights activist killed in 2020 during a peaceful protest outside a slaughterhouse — and the ongoing fight for justice she inspired.
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2124, 4min., Iceland
Directed by Konstantine Vlasis, Marcus Neudigate
Data sonification of glacial change over the next century.
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