From the Age of Stupid to the End of the Line, and next year's Just Do It, independent filmmakers are innovating with radical film subjects and creating whole new funding streams, reports Laura Sevier
… How a new generation of eco-filmmakers are challenging broadcasting … Society Politics & Economics Independent Films Just Do It End Of The Line Age Of Stupid Green The Film Deforestation Dogwoof Creative Commons …
Filmmaker Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc has shocked audiences across the US with its stark portrayal of industrial agriculture. And that's just the bits the lawyers let you see...
… robert-kenner.jpg Photo credit: Dogwoof Filmmaker Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc … Laura Sevier: What inspired you to make the film about the food industry? Robert Kenner : … I went from one company to the other - in the film you only see ten or so but actually there …
Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… Undercurrents: the campaign film pioneers still setting the agenda Eifion … Culture Change Helen Iles Wales Sustainable Film Undercurrents Documentary Television … producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and …
A pioneering Disney nature film has become a powerful tool to protect threatened flamingos on Tanzania's Lake Natron
… A pioneering Disney nature film has become a powerful tool to protect … we have to feel connected to it. Wildlife filmmakers Leander Ward and Matthew Aeberhard's new film may be a testament to Dostoevsky's words. …
Tracy Worcester’s ‘Pig Business’, a groundbreaking expose of US industrial pig farming conglomerate Smithfield Foods, has met with repeated attempts at censorship by the company’s lawyers. Here, she explains how England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world learning more about the environmental realities of intensive livestock rearing
… Pig Business: behind the film they tried to ban Tracy Worcester | 20th … England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world … livestock rearing After a showing of my film, Pig Business, at the Royal Society of …
1minutetosavetheworld.com is an online film competition that encourages people from all over the world to submit a one minute length film about climate change.
… 1 minute to save the world - Film Competition Vi Nguyen | 30th November 2010 Other 1minutetosavetheworld Film Competition Video TV minute 480x360.jpg … 1minutetosavetheworld.com is an online film competition that encourages people from …
The video camera is the weapon of choice for activists and campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a message across and fight back against mainstream media bias. Here's our guide to taking your stand...
… To Make A Difference Campaigning:the Basics Film Media Reporting Camera Police … campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a message across … perhaps as an antidote to it – the means of film production has increasingly fallen into …
'The Cove' is truly shocking, and yet the publicity the film has received is minimal...
… is truly shocking, and yet the publicity the film has received is minimal... Hi! A friend … sent me your review of 'The Cove'. I saw this film in Bath recently. It is one of the most shocking films I have seen in recent years. This film …
Emmanuelle Schick Garcia is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it benefits from the contamination it is causing
… is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it … Levitt: Did you have any problems making this film? Any legal challenges from the chemical … taking our license plate numbers when we were filming facilities, even though we were on …
The End of the Line is the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans
… <i>The End of the Line</I> film The Ecologist | 8th June 2009 Other Marine Fish Line Film Video Ocean Sea Fishing Crisis Campaigns … Line is the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on …
Ecologist Film Unit journalist Jim Wickens has been attacked and later convicted of trespass as he filmed the slaughter of seals on the Namibian coast
… Ecologist Film Unit journalist beaten by seal hunters … World Society sealhuntnamibia.jpg Ecologist Film Unit journalist Jim Wickens has been … and later convicted of trespass as he filmed the slaughter of seals on the Namibian …
Famous for his 'earth from above footage', photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's new film is a feast for the eyes with a strong ecological message says Polly Cook
… photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's new film is a feast for the eyes with a strong … but rarely doing anything different. This film however, that premiered in the world's … famous for his ‘Earth from above' footage, filmed the documentary in 54 different …
A new Ecologist-produced film, to be screened at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan, highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government
… Peoples Mangroves fppimage.jpg The Ecologist Film Unit team documented powerful testimonies … communities A new Ecologist-produced film, to be screened at the forthcoming … it for wood, honey and food. The Ecologist Film Unit - working in association with the …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit soyafields.jpg Cheap meat has become … impoverished countries, according to a new film launched in conjunction with the Ecologist Film Unit . An investigation in Paraguay has …
Students at Ridgeway School in Plymouth show concern for ‘the other CO2 problem’ in an award-winning animated film about ocean acidification
… Herbert | 1st September 2009 Reviews Reviews Film CO2 Carbon Dioxide Ocean Acidification Film Review Carol Turley Plymouth Marine … CO2 problem’ in an award-winning animated film about ocean acidification We are all too …
In 2007 six Greenpeace activists attempted to shut Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent but were served a High Court injunction by a police helicopter.
… <i>A Time Comes</i> - A film by Nick Broomfield The Ecologist | 4th June 2009 Other Nick Broomfield Film Greenpeace Activism Campaigns Climate … of direct action, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield and Bright Green …
A Canadian film about an Inuit boy's views on climate change and cultural transformation wins prestigious Commonwealth film prize
… Awards Greg Hemmings commonwealth-vision-film.jpg A Canadian film about an Inuit boy's views on climate … transformation wins prestigious Commonwealth film prize Greg Hemmings, a young Canadian …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence
… Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit soyafields.jpg Cheap meat has become … impoverished countries, according to a new film launched in conjunction with the Ecologist Film Unit . An investigation in Paraguay has …
Short-film was made as part of UK-wide student environmental awards that saw more than 80 universities showcasing ways to reduce their environmental impact
… Charlie Chaplin eco spoof wins Ecologist film award The Ecologist | 1st April 2010 News … Communications Challenge Award Short-film was made as part of UK-wide student … Challenge Award. The students' short film, which you can watch at the bottom of …
It's the eco-documentary everyone is talking about. Shot in the style of an espionage thriller, The Cove is exposing the secret annual slaughter of 2000 dolphins in Japan. Watch it in UK cinemas from 23rd October
… wild dolphins towards the secret cove of the film's title by banging sticks on the side of … but more often as 'whale' meat. Yet, as the film reveals, dolphin meat can be contaminated … dolphins Richard O'Barry is undoubtedly the film's hero. In the 1960s he was famous for …
Director of 'The Idiot Cycle' claims people are being kept in the dark over the dangers posed by toxins in everyday life - and questions the murky links between UN, WHO and chemical companies
… deprived of data on cancer links to toxins - film maker Tom Levitt | 13th September 2010 … of independent information on cancer risks, film maker Emmanuelle Schick Garcia has … she said. Pollution pays The outspoken film maker also said chemical companies were …
Richard Curtis, the writer of Love Actually, this week hastily withdrew a controversial film produced for the 10:10 climate campaign after its contents - which included scenes of children being blown to bits - prompted a public outcry. The removal of the film from the 10:10 website has attracted even more attention to the 4 minute video however - prompting some to suggest that the entire episode was rigged. Judge for yourself...
… No pressure: the climate film that went too far? The Ecologist | 7th … this week hastily withdrew a controversial film produced for the 10:10 climate campaign … prompted a public outcry. The removal of the film from the 10:10 website has attracted even …
A film runs through the highlights of last weekend's protest at the Coryton oil refinery in Essex, UK
… of an oil refinery (Image @CrudeAwakening) A film runs through the highlights of last … out more... VIDEO No pressure: the climate film that went too far? Richard Curtis, the … this week hastily withdrew a controversial film produced for the 10:10 climate campaign …