Tag: Documentaries - Page 6
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Making a No Impact Movie About No Impact Man
Making a movie about No Impact Man means also going no impact during filming...or at least as low
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Colin Beavan on his Year as No Impact Man
The world has been watching Colin Beavan--better known as No Impact Man--for some time. Now, his year of no-impact living at an end, he is sharing the ups and downs, the laughter and nail-biting, and all the lessons that came from what The New York
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Film Preview: Marina of the Zabbaleen - A Young Girl Garbage Collector
Visit Muqattam -- the garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt -- through the eyes of seven-year-old Marina. Her vision of flying elephants, mystical pigeons, and evil witches "transforms a squalid landfill
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No Impact Man: A Stunt or Not a Stunt? That Is *Not* the Question
Last week, Elizabeth Kolbert, a respected New Yorker journalist who
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Director Joe Berlinger on "Crude" and the Amazonian Chernobyl
The thing they call the "Amazonian Chernobyl" is deep in the Ecuadorian rainforest where decades of oil drilling have left a noxious trail of saturated soil, tainted water, and inky black pits of sludge. Crude, the latest documentary from acclaimed
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Earth Days, The Movie: The Rise & Fall & Rise & ? of the Environmental Movement
Shiny Chevy’s cruising efficient freeways and cheery new homes signaling the American Dream soon turned into a nightmare of smog and suburban sprawl. Through this context we
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Sneak Peek at Exclusive Clip From No Impact Man Movie
In early 2007, writer Colin Beavan started an experiment, which he described as follows: A Guilty Liberal Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nazi, Turns Off His Power,
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Chatting with Fisher Stevens, Producer of Film "The Cove"
On July 31, 2009 , the film The Cove opened in New York and Los Angeles. Fisher Stevens had a major part in whipping the picture into theater-shape. You may remember him from the 1986 hit Short Circuit. With the release of The
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Oceans 11 meets Flipper: Don't Miss "The Cove"
The fate of 23,000 dolphins is in your hands, says Flipper's old trainer Ric O'Barry who's devoted years to ending the monster he
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Short Documentary Shows Toxic Trail of "Recycled" E-Waste Leads Overseas
Ever wonder what happens to all your old PCs, broken keyboards and ink cartridges? If you take your electronics to recyclers, you probably have visions of workers in well-ventilated
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Yann Arthus Bertrand's 'Home' Through Images and Facts (Slideshow)
It's been little more than a month since its worldwide premiere, and Home continues to amaze people around the world. A collection of unique aerial footage from over 50 countries, the
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Genesis is Epic Eco-Photography by Sebastiao Salgado
Image from Salgado Sebastiao Salgado is a Brazilian photographer who has been working on his photo-documentary "Genesis" for more than 4 years. It is a story in photos about the effect of modern development on the environment. He is searching for
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5 Documentaries You Must See to Understand the Water Crisis
There's a lot to know about the world's water crisis--as you can tell from the month of posts we've been doing on just this one topic. But if you're new to the discussion, catch up in one weekend with these five
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Preview: Rhodes Ecofilms Festival Begins This Week
New films about Canada's tar sands, the damage caused by extractive industries in the Amazon rainforest, and Aristotle's philosophy on nature will be among the opening-day fare
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LA Film Festival Abuzz with Green Documentaries
With 200 films from 30 countries, the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 18 to 28) in Westwood near UCLA, seems far from Hollywood. The non-profit that organizes the event "champions the cause of independent films," and though Public Enemies with
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No Impact Man Documentary Film Is Low on Carbon, High on Awareness
TreeHugger attended a pre-release screening No Impact Man, a documentary made about Colin Beavan (aka No Impact Man) and his family's yearlong experiment to live a zero waste lifestyle in New York City. We were happy to see that the movie treated its
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Talks Dirty Coal at Bonnaroo, and More
Image credit: Jeff Kravitz With 80,000 people, America's biggest music fest is a colossus. But Bonnaroo keeps making good on its commitment to get greener each year. TreeHugger Radio chatted at length with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who is calling people to
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Venice Biennale Has Artists' Boat and an Eco Note
It's the Venice Biennale again, the celebrity and champagne studded art fair, where it's not clear whether the parties or the art are what's on show. Each country has a pavilion on the shores of the magical city, and each pavilion
