Every Friday the Eco Film Club gathers to watch a movie on ecological topics. Join us! Become a member and organize your own private club meetings once a week, watch the same movie we do and use the comments on the Eco Film Club site to discuss it afterwards.
The Eco-Film on Friday, February 25th at 7 p.m. will be Man Made Sun. Genre: Documentary, Produced by: National Geographic, 2006, 47 Minutes, English Visit a massive solar power facility and explore its cutting-edge technology and design. With the onset of global warming, can this green energy prove its worth? Man Made Sun is a…
7pm Friday February 18th 2011: Our Generation Genre: Documentary. Director: Sinem Saban, Producer: Damien Curtis, Australia,2010, 73 minutes. Our Generation is a groundbreaking new documentary on Aboriginal rights in Australia, which uncovers the hidden struggle of Australia’s First Peoples to their land, culture and freedom. Hidden from the eyes of the world, Our Generation is their…
The Eco-Film on Friday, February 11th at 7 p.m. will be Part 1 of What About Me. Genre: Documentary, Directed by: Duncan Bridgeman & Jamie Catto, 2008, 60 Minutes, English, Grand Jury Prize: Red Rock Film Festival Gathering material from 25 countries and dozens of famous and not-so-famous musicians, authors, celebrities, spiritualists, philosophers, and unique individuals…
The Eco-Film on Friday, February 4th at 7 p.m. will be Great Migrations – Born to Move. Genre: Documentary, Produced by: National Geographic, 2010, 50 Minutes, English, Narrated by: Alec Baldwin Born to Move spans the globe, revealing four of the most remarkable animal movements: Sperm Whales traveling over a million miles in a lifetime;…
Our Eco-Film on Friday, January 28th will be The End of the Line. Genre: Documentary, Director: Rupert Murray, 2009, 85 Minutes, English / Nominated for 3 awards Is it true that by 2048 the oceans may no longer have anything left in them to fish? The End of the Line explores this issue in great…
The Eco-Film on Friday, January 21st at 7 p.m. will be Taking Root – The Vision of Wangari Maathai. Genre: Documentary, Director: Alan Dater & Lisa Merton, 2008, 81 Minutes, English, winner of 15 international awards Taking Root tells the story of Wangari Maathi, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. An…
The Ecofilm on Friday, January 14th will be Dirt. Genre: Documentary, Director: Bill Benenson & Gene Rosow, 2009, 86 Minutes, English Watch an interview with the filmmakers here: 4 billion years ago life started on Earth. Where…in the dirt. We were born from it but tend to overlook it. Dirt: The Movie explores our relationship…
Our Ecofilm on Friday, January 7th, will be The Great African Scandal. Genre: Documentary, Director: Channel 4, 2007, 48 Minutes, English Watch the full movie here: “Robert Beckford visits Ghana to investigate the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold and why, 50 years after independence, a country so rich in natural resources is one…
The Ecofilm on Friday, December 31st will be No Impact Man. Genre: Documentary, Director: Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein, 2009, 92 Minutes, English Life in the city is not easy and does not get much easier when you decide to try and make as little environmental impact as possible. The Beavan family did this for…
The Ecofilm on Friday, December 24th at 7 p.m. will be The Queen of Trees. Genre: Documentary, Director: Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone, 2005, 54 Minutes, English The giant sycamore fig tree in Africa shares a special relationship with a creature millions of time smaller, the fig wasp. Their friendship goes back thousands of years…
