WELCOME TO THE 7TH ANNUAL WILD & SCENIC ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL®

We write this welcoming letter to SYRCL’s 7th annual for me to let myself be pessimistic. I’m hopeful, can’t live without Wild & Scenic Film Festival as citizens across the nation collectively hope. Can you?” exhale from an historic yet grueling campaign season. The themes of Change happens from the bottom, up. As a successful citizen’s “change” and “hope” filled every nook of media space for the past league for the past 25 years, SYRCL has learned this lesson. The several months, resulting in an undeniably transformative presidential campaigns and people featured in our films demonstrate this tru- The Wild & Scenic election. As one of the premier environmental media events in North ism. And our in-coming President, poised at the pinnacle of power, Environmental Film Festival® America, we at Wild & Scenic couldn’t help but be swept up in the is a production of the expects this from us: “So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of resonance of these themes as they’ve played out across the country. South Yuba River Citizens responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder League (SYRCL). And so this year we will gather in Nevada City about a week before and look after not only ourselves but each other.” Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, And so let’s gather strength and inspiration from our broad and Since 1983, SYRCL has been under a banner similar to one that we flew at our 2006 Wild & inclusive community during our Wild & Scenic weekend. We’re hon- protecting and restoring the Scenic Festival: Truth, Hope and Action. In his election night speech ored to host many special filmmakers and guests, including Navajo Yuba River and the greater to the nation, President-elect Obama signaled that the environment activist Enei Begaye featured in Power Paths, and The Dervaes Fam- Yuba Watershed. will be a priority of his administration, acknowledging in stoic terms ily of Homegrown Revolution. As you’ll read in these pages, we’ve the “enormity of the task that lies ahead” and the challenges posed Please consider becoming a been working all year to ensure that the 7th Annual Wild & Scenic by “a planet in peril.” member to help us continue Film Festival is rich in innovation, celebration and inspiration. We’ve this important work. Past participants of our film festival are well versed in the perilous articulated a new vision and a set of principles (see next page) state of our environment. We have shared images and narratives of that will guide the evolution of Wild & Scenic in the years ahead. South Yuba River the severity of the ecological crisis and we have a clearer understand- Our collective task is to knit these individual stories into a broader Citizens League ing of the root causes. Economic injustice, militarism, and devalua- narrative for our times; to unite our various movements into a coher- 216 Main Street tion of our planet’s natural capital are fueling the twin calamities of ent call for change. We who have been working at the grassroots Nevada City, CA 95959 climate destabilization and loss of biodiversity. The federal govern- level were reminded on election night: the “change” is fueled by (530)265-5961 www.yubariver.org ment’s own climate scientists are warning us that the very survival of us, people working together to transition our communities, reclaim www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org civilization is dependent on a significant re-calibration of our culture. democracy, and regenerate our ecological systems. Thank you for We, and past generations, have brought us to this point in human joining with us. history. We, and future generations, are the only ones that can turn the tide. Kim Milligan, Yet, as past participants will affirm—and newcomers will discover—the SYRCL Board President Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival has always focused on hope, profiling one community after another that is coming together Jason Rainey, to solve local environmental problems that, in aggregate, contribute SYRCL Executive Director to global solutions. Kathy Dotson, Our community’s dear friend U. Utah Phillips, who joined us at our Wild & Scenic Film 2008 Festival and whose spirit passed on last year, observed in Festival Director 2004, “there’s too many good people doing too many good things 2 WHAT’S INSIDE GREENING OF THE FESTIVAL Festival Sponsors...... 4 - 5 Wild & Scenic is committed to making the event as Tickets...... 6 - 7 green as possible, and each year we strive to reduce How to Festival...... 8 our carbon footprint. We are pleased to be working Special Events...... 9 with PowerUp of Nevada City and Nevada County Art Shows...... 9 - 10 Recycles to help us achieve this goal. Music...... 10 March Point Please do your part at the festival: Awards...... 11 Workshops...... 12 - 13 Special Guests...... 14 -15 1. Carpool to the festival. Go to http://wildandscenic. Films by Issue...... 16 erideshare.com. Log in and then use the group 2009 Official Selection...... 17-31 password “filmfest.” More Stuff...... 32 2. Bring your own water bottle and fill it up at Wild & Scenic On Tour...... 33 any of the venues. Become a SYRCL Member...... 34 Weekend Schedule...... 35 - 38 3. Bring your own coffee mug. Map of Festival Venues...... 39 4. Please be aware of the green stations and put your waste in the correct bin: OUR MISSION Power Paths compostables, recyclables, and landfill The Cost of Oil garbage. There will be signs to help you! SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival inspires people and unites communities to heal the earth. 5. Recycle this program and your fest passes at OUR VISION the end of the weekend.

SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a call to action. At Wild & Scenic, filmgoers are transformed into a congregation of committed activists, dedicated to saving our increasingly threatened planet. We show environmental and adventure films that illustrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. Through these films, Wild & Scenic both informs people about the state of the world and inspires them to take action.

Wild & Scenic raises resources and awareness for SYRCL’s initiatives to recover California’s wild salmon and to protect and restore the This program is printed on Yuba River. And SYRCL’s Film Festival On Tour serves as a national platform for local environmental advocacy. 100% recycled paper. 3 NATIONAL SPONSORS BEST FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL 2009 FESTIVAL SPONSORS Michael & Alicia Funk

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

PRESENTING SPONSOR Coulter Adams & Rebecca Coffman The Lotus Foundation Charlie Aron & Al De Vico Kim Milligan Kathie Bain and Andy Norrell Alison & Alan Pomatto Susie & David Bavo Lowell & Diane Robertson Robert Berman & Jane Ginsburg Gabriel Ross Mike & Margaret Bloebaum Don & Madeleine Simborg Richard & Marcie Ellers Susan Snider & Michael Percy Judi Funk Mark & Jennifer Switzer Shawn Garvey John & Kerri Timmer WILD & SCENIC SPONSOR YUBA RIVER SPONSORS Sue Ghilotti Peter VanZant & Mary DeWitt Ralph & Dorothy Hitchcock Melanie Wellner & Rod Byers Jeff Kane & Ronnie Paul

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4 BEST FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL ROCK CREEK SPONSORS RIVER LOVER SPONSORS FEATURED RESTAURANT Green Planet Films MarketPro Direct Mail Service, Inc. NEW MOON CAFE Melas Engineering 203 YORK STREET Phil Williams & Associates (530)265-6399

VENUE SPONSORS FEATURED ACCOMODATIONS

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PRODUCT SPONSORS FEATURED VENDOR HOLLYWOOD SWEETS 12041 Sutton Way, Grass Valley (530)272-4470

Charlie Brock of HOLLYWOOD SWEETS will be selling sandwiches, salads, and baked goods at the Miners Foundry, and limited food at the Vets Hall, Oddfellows, Nevada Theatre, and NC Elementary.

Amazing Grass, Dagoba Chocolate, Dropps Laundry Detergent, EcoTeas, Ecologic, Frey Organic Wine, Green Mountain Coffee, Indigenous Designs, Newman’s Own Organics, Wolaver’s Organic Ales, Zola Acai

Please be sure to patronize these businesses and thank them for being Wild & Scenic Film Festival Sponsors. 5 TICKETS

ADVANCE TICKET SALES DURING FESTIVAL WEEKEND

OPEN: Monday, December 1 Ticket sales & will call ticket pickup: CLOSE: Thursday, January 8 Friday, January 9 - Sunday, January 11

ONLINE: www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org Please plan on picking up your will call tickets beginning PHONE: (530)265-5961 at 10:00am on Friday, January 9 at Festival HQ. SYRCL OFFICE: 216 Main Street, Nevada City PLEASE NOTE NEW 2009 HQ LOCATION BELOW. Tickets on sale by phone & at the office Monday-Friday A limited number of tickets will be available for the 1PM - 5PM only. weekend, and they can be purchased there.

Advance ticket sales online, by phone, and at the office FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS CLOSE Thursday, January 8, at 5:00pm. 412 Commercial Street, Nevada City (at Public Parking lot) Friday, January, 9: 10:00am - 9:00pm We recommend buying your festival tickets IN ADVANCE! Saturday, January 10: 8:30am - 9:00pm Sunday, January 11: 9:00am - 4:00pm the fine print - please read! PLEASE NOTE: Your festival ticket guarantees you a seat at one of the film venues during any session, BUT WE CANNOT GUARANTEE a seat in the theatre of your choice. We highly recommend that if you would like to see a particular film, please plan on arriving at that theatre early and before the start of that session of films. For more on “How to Festival”, please turn to page 8. ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL - NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES. 6 Become a member of SYRCL and save! If you join or renew when you purchase your tickets you’ll receive: $15 coupon for Film Rentals, $10 member discount on the Weekend Pass, $10 member discount on Dance Party Tickets and $5 in Raffle Tickets. TICKETS

BEST DEALS SESSION PASSES SPECIAL EVENTS

friday evening $24 child $12 dance party $20 members & students $10 Friend of the Yuba Pass Includes entry into all film venues Friday evening Groove to the sounds of Bay Area’s Garaj Mahal $325 plus opening music at each venue. and DJ Dragonfly - in both halls at the Miners Includes entry into all film and workshop sessions, Foundry, Friday, 10pm - 1am. and all special events: Dance Party, Wine Tasting, saturday morning cartoons adult or child $5 and the Gala Event. This pass includes a special Includes entry into the Nevada Theatre on Saturday wine tasting 21 & over only $14 donation to SYRCL and entitles you to an annual morning for a special program for kids of all ages. Includes a signature wine glass and wine tasting in a membership and (for locals only) free festival 9am - noon only. These tickets will also be sold at variety of stores downtown on Saturday, 4-6pm. library rentals until December 31, 2009. And don’t the box office at the Theatre Saturday morning (if forget ... you get to wear a special pass letting available). gala event $75 everyone know that you are a Friend of the Yuba! Includes wine, gourmet hors d’oeuvres, and visiting saturday morning & afternoon $35 child $15 with the festival’s special guests on Saturday, 10pm Includes entry into all film venues & workshops - midnight at the Nevada City Winery. Don’t miss Saturday, 9am - 5pm. Also includes entry into the this special event! Wild & Scenic Weekend Pass Awards Ceremony, on a first-come, first-serve basis. $90 CHILD $50 raffle tickets 6/$5 30/$20 saturday evening $24 child $12 A festival favorite! Try your luck for some awesome CURRENT & NEW SYRCL MEMBERS $80* Includes entry into all film venues Saturday evening. prizes! Tickets will be for sale at Fest HQ and the Includes entry into all film and workshop sessions. Foundry. This pass does not include any special events. child *New & renewing members must join SYRCL for sunday morning & afternoon $32 $15 Includes entry into all film venues Sunday, 10am - $40 or more to receive the discount. Child price is for children 17 & 5pm. Please note: NCE is not open on Sunday. younger. All credit card purchases will be subject to a processing fee.

7 want, check the SYRCL office’s Festival Film Library And finally, the festival is called “Wild & at the end of January to rent 2009 films (and Scenic”, yet most of the films are not really films from years past, too). Sorry, the library is for nature or wildlife films ... why? HOW TO FESTIVAL locals only. What is a film session? The film festival was named in honor of SYRCL’s I want to meet and talk with some of the successful campaign to achieve state Wild & Sce- This is a grouping of films and venues during the guest filmmakers and speakers - how? nic status on 39 miles of the South Yuba River. That weekend. Wild & Scenic has five sessions: Friday victory took many years, thousands of volunteer One of the coolest things about Wild & Scenic is evening, Saturday Morning cartoons, Saturday hours and dollars, and pure direct democracy on meeting the great people behind the films. You’ll Morning & Afternoon, Saturday Evening, and the river and at the Capitol. The film festival was probably bump into them in one of the venues or Sunday Morning & Afternoon. When you buy born out of that spirit, and it continues to be an around town (look for their special badges), or you a session pass you have access to all the venues event that celebrates and inspires activism. open during that session. can meet some of them at Chat with the Filmmakers sessions and at our fabulous Gala Event. I really want to see a certain film. How can What are the workshops all about? I make sure I get a seat? Other Helpful Hints On Saturday, 9am - 5pm, in two venues, you Experienced film festival goers know that if there • Traveling to Nevada City? Check out can learn more about the issues presented is a film you really want to see, get to that theatre in the films and what you can do; and if you www.nevadacitychamber.com & EARLY! Even if that film is playing in the middle are a budding filmmaker, learn the secrets of www.grassvalleychamber for lodging. or the end of a session, get there before the industry professionals! And did we mention, that beginning of the session and stay there to make the workshops are FREE to the public? Plus, at • Please carpool! Check out http://wildandscenic. sure you get to see it. Activist Center I at City Hall, there will be booths erideshare.com to find or share a ride. representing local and national organizations. Why can’t the festival guarantee me a seat • Bring a chair pad. at the film I want to see? What if I fall in love with a film, and want • Bring your own water bottle and coffee cup We can guarantee you a seat at one of the to share it with all my friends at home? (the festival does not sell bottled water). venues, but not at the one you may want. If you First of all, be sure to vote for it for the People’s arrive at a venue that is full, please check with • Bring extra cash to buy films, festival t-shirts, and Choice Award! And then, check out the Film Sales the volunteers at the door for available seating at Desk - many of the films will be available to buy. food and drinks. other venues. And don’t forget about SYRCL’s Film Fest Library • While in Nevada City, be sure to try the many mentioned above. There are films I want to see playing at the fabulous restaurants and visit the great shops! same time. What should I do? Is there anything else to do? • Be sure to say thanks to the hundreds of This year, over 45 films are screening more than GOSH YES! We have awards, wine, and even volunteers working this weekend - they work long one time. The majority of Sunday’s films are yoga! Check out the plethora of special events on hours to make this event successful! repeats. And if you still don’t see everything you the next page ... there’s something for everyone. 8 OPENING RECEPTIONS - FREE TO THE PUBLIC CHAT WITH THE FILMMAKERS - FREE TO THE PUBLIC Welcome to the festival, mingle and sip wines before Grab a bite to eat and meet some of the filmmak- Friday’s films, 4-7pm at: ers and speakers, Saturday, 11am-1pm. Filmmaker schedule available in all venues. Chats will be at: Mowen Solinsky Gallery (pouring Nevada City SPECIAL EVENTS Winery wines), 225 Broad St. with music by Lefty’s Grill, 221 Broad St., Cafe Mekka, Catherine Scholz and Michael Logue; and 237 Commercial St., Java Johns, 306 Broad St., BOOK SIGNINGS Bring home a beautiful book about the Yuba River! Bella Vita Salon & Gallery, 317 Spring St. Broad Street Bistro, 426 Broad St.; Booksignings will take place during the Wine Stroll, Dos Banditos, 101 Broad St. DANCE PARTY Saturday, 4-6pm: Let’s groove tonight! Jam to the tunes of Garaj Mahal AWARDS CEREMONY The River - Hiking Trails & the History of the South and DJ Dragonfly in two halls at the Miners Foundry, Be the first to learn of the award-winning films, Satur- Fork Yuba River by naturalist Hank Meals at the Friday, 10pm - 1am. Separate ticket. See page 10. day, 4:15pm, in the Stone Hall of the Foundry. Sat. Earth Store, 310 Broad St. Morn/Aft Ticket or Weekend Pass required. Limited Reflections on the Yuba by photographer YOGA seating. First come, first served. David Preston at Harmony Books, 231 Broad St. Energize your body and spirit with yoga at Shuniaa, Yuba Seasons - Images From the Wild & Scenic Saturday and Sunday, 8am, at 212 Church Street, WINE STROLL South Yuba River by David McKay at JJ Jacksons, just off Commercial Street & across from the court- Take a break and sample locals wines Saturday, 244 Commercial St. house. $11 fee. For info: (530)478-0528 4-6pm. Separate ticket required. Locations at: NY Hotel (pouring by KVMR), 408 Broad St. WORKSHOPS - FREE TO THE PUBLIC WILD & SCENIC GALA EVENT Mountain Song, 104 N. Pine St. This is THE celebration of the weekend you won’t Learn more about the issues and what you can do, Earth Store with Szabo Vineyards, 310 Broad St. want to miss. Gourmet organic hors d’oeuvres by get filmmaking tips from pros, and much more - in two Nevada City Winery, 321 Spring St. BriarPatch, and wines by Nevada City Winery. Satur- venues on Saturday, 9am - 5pm. See pages 12-13. Lotus Mountain with Lucchesi Vineyards, 130 Main day, 10pm-midnight at the Winery, 321 Spring Street. My Favorite Things, 425 Broad St. Separate ticket required. ART SHOWS Bella Vita Salon & Gallery, 317 Spring St. Cafe Mekka, 237 Commercial St. Harmony Books, Nikila Badua, Donna Brown, Phillip D. Brown, The Nevada County Plein Air Painters Featuring: 231 Broad St. Darlene Carter, David Christie, Jeanine Christman, Odette Brush, Daly Merrill, Gwen Moore, Penelope David Preston, Bob Libutti, Kitty Meekins, James Rodney, Margaret Partch, Susan Moreno, Beth Donnelly photography Wilicoxon, Ursula Young, Grace Kelly Rivera (various mediums) Citronee Bistro & Wine Bar, 320 Broad St. An Inner Sanctum, Gary Frost, photography 308 Broad St. Photo by Eli Rush Broad Street Bistro, 426 Broad St. Carl Mautz, historical Eileen Blodgett, Yvon Dockter, Christine Elder, Stuart Dragonfly Salon & Gallery of Arts, photography Gold, Karel Hendee, Sharon Lane, Betsy Lombard, 315 C Spring St. Carmen Hodges, photography Tiffany Malakian, Shawndel Story, Helen Strang Java Johns, 306 Broad St. Eric Martin, (various mediums) photography continued on next page 9 NC Elementary - Silver Wings will be making their ART SHOWS, continued third consecutive appearance at the Film Fest. Featur- ing Jan Jablecki, Reid Luhman, Jeff Kane, Andy Nor- Lilly Vigil Gallery, 214 Broad St. Lu Mellado, FRIDAY EVE MUSIC rell, Niel Bledsoe & Charlie Brock. ceramic jewelry; Mark Simpkins, oil Complimentary music before the is an award- films with your Friday eve ticket. Odd Fellows Hall - Catherine Scholz Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St. winning songwriter who works in the folk genre, but John Olmsted, photography Miners Foundry Great Hall - likes to draw from pop, jazz, classical and even coun- Lorraine Gervais is soulful, try. www.catherinesmusic.com Mowen Solinsky Gallery, 225 Broad St. sultry, and eclectic ... singing jazz on the edges of Richard Hotchkiss, ceramics; Eli Rush, photography; pop, soul, folk, rock. Also featuring Bob Vilwock & NC Vets Hall - Dakota Sid “comes on with a voice Gary Upton, mixed media, woodworking Rob Holland. www.lorrainegervais.com that was rode hard and put away wet. His voice, his material and his ethics all seem as genuine as Woody Nevada City Winery, 321 Spring St. Masons Hall - Kelly Fleming writes and plays Irish, Guthrie sounding off at a labor rally, ” says Charlie Denise Wey, paintings blues, bluegrass, rock, & folk. Kelly plays guitar, bass, Creekmore of Chico News and Review.www.dako- banjo, mandolin, and lap steel. tasid.com New Moon Cafe, 203 York St. LeeAnn Brook, contemporary landscapes; Jill Mahanna, oils Nevada Theater - Miners Foundry Stone Hall - Christine & Rob Bonner Ivan Najera is inspired by styles South Pine Cafe, 110 South Pine St. In Christine Bonner’s harp, that include traditional Spanish and David McKay, photography our collective memory of Flamenco, Brazilian, Tropicalia, jazz, early California is awakened and contemporary. His music has Taylor - Drake, 300 Spring St. Jeannine by a warm Pacific breeze. been described as exhilarating, ex- Christman, Jane Welles, plein air paintings www.unclerob.com plosive, emotional and sensual. www.ivannajera.com

at the Miners Foundry, 10pm DANCE PARTY separate ticket required. SPONSORED BY FRIDAY’S DANCE PARTY YABOBO/ASYLUM DOWN

When you hear your firstGARAJ MAHAL note, leading DJ DRAGONFLY is amongst Northern into an innovative fusion of funky jazz with a tasty world music California’s most sought after purveyors of cutting edge flare, all other thoughts leave your mind world music. His sound is a trans-tempo fusion of idioms, as the music takes you on an unforgettable rhythms, indigenous voices and melodies ... all this voyage. Garaj Mahal’s sound – a bumped up by live electronic percussion, downtempo, convergence of jazz-style improvisation, drum and base, and house. In the wake of his mix is a mystical Middle-Eastern atmospheres, and global shakedown that leaves no continent unturned danceable American funk - attracts music in search of the highest groove. As a DJ he is most lovers from all parts of the spectrum and often found in the underground dance scene, and is a regular at creates a profoundly unique experience. events and festivals lke Earthdance and Burning Man. GROOVE TIME GROOVE 10 THE PROCESS SPECIAL AWARDS Over 300 films were submitted, requested and The Festival Director decides on awards prior to the previewed to decide on the 128 for our 2009 Official start of the festival. Congratulations to the following Selection. The program committee begins screening filmmakers: FESTIVAL AWARDS films in the summer and then recommends their Student Filmmaker Award favorites for the final selection. The Festival Director Best Children’s Film Wynn Padua, Lynx On Saturday morning, in the Nevada Theatre, creates the final program. This committee also helps Annabella Funk, Journey of the Yuba to create the “Jury Short List”. Almost all of these the Kids ‘ Jury will decide on the best Children’s Both Wynn and Annabella will be at the festival Film. Thank you to our 2009 Kids Jury: Abby films (and more favorites) are repeated on Sunday. to present their films and accept the awards. The Awards Jury will decide on the following awards: Limov, Alexandra and Page Whittle, Adam John De Graaf Environmental Verhasselt, Dylan Brownstein, Skyler & Emma Best of Festival Filmmaker Award Garvey, Yara Pasner, and Danny Haddon. Spirit of Activism This prestigious award is given to a filmmaker Most Inspirational Adventure Film who has excelled in environmental filmmaking, VOTE! PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD and a variety of Jury Awards & and who shows dedication to inspiring activism Be sure to vote for your favorite film. You’ll receive Honorable Mentions through film. The 2009 award goes to Free a ballot with your ticket; ballot boxes at each venue. Range Studios. Wild & Scenic has been honored Winner announced Sunday afternoon. to screen a variety of their creative animations Thank you to the 2009 Program Committee, who including The Meatrix, DaVersity Code, Story logged hundreds of hours of film watching (of both of Stuff, and more. Members of the Free Range AWARDS CEREMONY the good & bad!): Bryant Bergot, Brent Lickiss, The team will be presenting a short compilation Be the first to learn of the award-winning films, Satur- Lewis Family, Terra Nyssa, Janice Rosner, Tony Loro, of their work when they accept the award on day, 4:15pm, in the Stone Hall of the Foundry. Sat. Jacquie Weills, Patricia Montijo, Susie Sutphin. Saturday evening. Morn/Aft ticket or Weekend Pass required. Limited seating, first come, first served. THE PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS JURY Mike Bloebaum, Jury Chairman Carolyn Voss director. Lew made his first documentary at USC back in Mike has won five Emmy Awards for his television work. He Producing documentaries since 1990, Carolyn’s projects have 1968, and has been a film junkie ever since. headed the Communication Division of Pasadena City Col- taken her to 45 countries. She has won an Emmy, Telly, Cine Nick Messer lege as Dean for over 20 years. He continues to make suc- Golden Eagle, Aurora, Videographers Awards of Excellence, For 15 years Nick worked as a social studies educator, and cessful films in his retirement. Pro and Omni Awards. he is now a curriculum developer for schools across the coun- Spence Palermo Jason Graham try. Nick is an avid film watcher and his stepmother used to Spence’s film career includes writing, shooting, producing, For the last 8 years, Jason has been the manager and pro- date the film critic Roger Ebert. editing, as well as extensive work in production sound. He gram director for the Magic Theatre. He help start the Nevada Chuck Jaffee worked on Mr. Holland’s Opus, Natural Born Killers, Griz- City Film Festival in 2001 and continues to be its director. For 25 years, Chuck has been a technical writer, but his real zly Man, and documentary work with Sean Penn and Jon Jason has written and directed five short films. love is film. He writes film reviews forThe Union and has Krakauer. Spence has shown films at Wild & Scenic in the Lew Sitzer been writing an Oscar prediction newsletter for 30 years. past, and this year he presents, Crossroads at the Columbia, Lew taught photography and video in the local high schools on Saturday evening. for many years, and he recently retired as NCTV’s executive

11 Politically Charged Activism Homegrown Revolution 11am-12pm 2pm-3pm Using politics to propel environmental campaigns The path to sustainable living in the city WORKSHOPS - ACTIVIST CENTER 1 Hear from Steve Wilensky, Calaveras County Supervisor; Urban homesteader, Jules Dervaes, speaks about his journey Tina Andolina, Legislative Director for the Planning and toward a sustainable, self-sufficient life in the city. At Path ACTIVIST CENTER 1 Conservation League; and Reinette Senum, Nevada City Vice to Freedom, the Dervaes family is living a protest against CITY HALL Mayor. They will share their experience in using the political corporate control of the food supply by growing 6,000 317 BROAD STREET system to build effective coalitions that bridge rural economic pounds of produce a year on 1/5 of an acre. Jules and his 9:00AM - 5:00PM development and environmental protection. Learn how to family will explain how we can take steps where we are, with be more effective in your participation with state and local what we have—right now!—to become more independent and FREE TO THE PUBLIC government. See how rural leaders are creating a blueprint secure in difficult times and to be responsible stewards of the for sustainability. earth. Special Bonus: FREE screening of their 12min film, Homegrown Revolution! You can also watch their film on Source to Sea: Freedom To Roam Friday evening in the Great Hall. Connecting People with Their Headwaters 12pm-1pm 9am-10am Presented by Patagonia’s VP of Environment, Sisters on the Planet Wake-up with SYRCL! Complimentary coffee, Rick Ridgeway 3pm-4pm juice and muffins Our presenting sponsor, Patagonia, established “Freedom FREE film presented by Oxfam The Source to Sea Collective is an organic network of activ- to Roam” as a long-term initiative dedicated to establishing See how four inspirational women are fighting back against ists, artists, performers and ecologists from San Francisco migration wildways for animals between protected areas. climate change and learn how you can help. As obvious who are working to reunite the upper Yuba River to its right- Environmentalists, businesses, outdoor recreationalists, ranch- as it sounds, climate change affects everybody. But climate ful place in “Salmon Nation.” In alliance with SYRCL, Source ers, hunters and anglers, urban and rural folk have all joined change is already having a disproportionate impact on to Sea Collectivistas are drawing inspiration from the Yuba together to create these continental corridors so that wildlife people in poor communities, and it’s hitting women hardest. to summon a new spirit of headwaters awareness in the Bay can survive and adapt to a warming planet. Learn more Sisters on the Planet is a project of Oxfam America, an Area, demonstrating that the cross-pollination of art/culture/ about this important campaign and see what you can do to international relief and development organization that cre- activism is a rich, enjoyable, and truly unstoppable way to get involved! ates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. After organize. Hear how you can get involved! the film join a lively discussion with an Oxfam rep regarding Mobilizing Your Community Sisters on the Planet and Oxfam’s work around the world. Climate Change and Biodiversity: 1pm-2pm Building Resilience in Ecological Former Dallas Mayor, Laura Miller, shares her 50% by 2050 and Human Communities passion for activism 4pm-5pm 10am-11am Laura served as Dallas mayor from 2002-2007. During her Renewable energy panel lead by Alex Smith of The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation has produced service, she led the opposition against 18 old-technology Treehugger.com some of California’s preeminent environmental leaders. coal plants proposed for Texas. Her accomplishments are Can we reduce our carbon emissions by 50% in the next Four Switzer Leadership Fellows will present on cutting edge documented in the film,Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars forty-one years? Let’s ask the experts in the fields of wind, climate change work from Amazonia to the Yuba. From which screens Friday evening in the Stone Hall, and Sunday solar, geothermal, as well as nuclear power. What is the Google to the grassroots, learn how science and citizen morning in Oddfellows. Hear first-hand how Laura organized potential role of each in a diversified, energy portfolio? activism can promote ecological and community resilience in a campaign and mobilized rural communities to fight the pro- Treehugger journalist, Alex Smith, leads a focused discussion these changing times. Presenters include Dr. Healy Hamilton posed plants and go up against one of the most formidable on creating energy security through investment in renewable (California Academy of Sciences), Dr. Amy Luers (Google. industries, Big Coal! Learn the tactics that any community alternatives. Panel: Jon Hill, Sierra Solar; David Weisman, com), Katrina Schneider (SYRCL), and Dr. Elizabeth Soder- can implement to protect their environment now and for Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility; Josiah Raisen Cain, strom (American Rivers). generations to come. Design Ecology; Brian Woody, Truckee Wind Project. 12 Wake Up to Solar The Power of Story. Reach a Wider 9am - 10am Audience and Make a Difference. Complimentary coffee, juice and muffins 12pm-1pm Ever wanted to convert your house to solar, but been intimi- Workshop led by Michael Brown of Serac Films WORKSHOPS - ACTIVIST CENTER 2 dated by the technology? Learn about the basic components Develop your storytelling skills and increase the distribution of a solar system from SMA’s experts. Find out how solar and sellability of your film. Green channels are losing ratings. ACTIVIST CENTER 2 works, what the basic components are, what’s entailed in a Better films with powerful narratives is the only solution. VETS HALL (DOWNSTAIRS) retrofit and how everything operates with the power grid. Get Michael has spent years producing or trying to produce 415 N. PINE STREET to grips with the basics so you know what you’re looking for green and socially conscious films. He knows the score and 9:00AM - 5:00PM when you go solar! Led by Brett Dotson, SMA Solar Ambas- has tactics to combat the problem. This will be an interactive sador. www.solar-is-future.com presentation, and we encourage filmmakers and the audience FREE TO THE PUBLIC to join in and get riled up. Let’s pump those ratings and make Online Tools for Future Filmmaking green programming interesting and compelling! Clean Coal?? 10am-11am 3pm-4pm Workshop led by Joey Shepp, social media expert and Sell 1,000s of Your DVDs What coal & utilities companies don’t want you to know internet entrepreneur to Finance Other Projects Coal is responsible for half of the U.S. electric energy The world of video is moving online fast and the implications 1pm-2pm supply, and the 550 coal fired plants in the U.S. create one-third of our nation’ carbon emissions. Attached to the to filmmakers and audiences are paramount. It has become with Tim Sweeney, entertainment consultant award-winning filmBurning the Future is the Coal Impact the norm for filmmakers to have an online presence and to While every filmmaker is happy to have their film finally Guide, a comprehensive guide on coal, energy, health and lead marketing using online video. In this workshop learn finished and showing, the reality of the money you spent pollution impacts. In this session, producer David Novack how to leverage the latest online tools to promote, distribute, making it and ideas for new projects are already attacking and Executive Producer Steve Michelson will demonstrate and enhance your filmmaking; gain a global audience, make you. How can you make a profit with this film so you can how the Guide stimulates discussion, activism, education, and money with advertising, and be prepared for the future of finance the next? In this special workshop, entertainment engagement around this heated issue. See their filmBurning online video. www.joeyshepp.com industry expert Tim Sweeney will teach you some new the Future on Friday eve in the Great Hall, and on Sunday strategies you can use to attract local businesses, as well as afternoon in the Stone Hall. Young Filmmakers Panel political, social and environmental groups to help market 11am-12pm your film and even how you can work with music artists to sell thousands of copies of your current film. If interested in FREE Environmental Justice Panel Meet the future of environmental filmmaking 4pm-5pm moderated by local filmmaker, Gregg Schiffner MENTORING throughout the festival, contact Tim directly: Many young environmentalists are finding film is an effective 951-303-9506! Weaving the threads of social & environmental medium to communicate their message. The festival wants to movements foster more young filmmakers to utilize this powerful media Greening Television Once again, many of the films at Wild & Scenic demonstrate to effect change. Come meet the festival’s young filmmakers. 2pm-3pm a consistent theme: campaigns that knit together alliances They’ll share how they got their start, their inspiration and between social and economic justice groups with environ- with James Ehrlich of the TV Show, “Hippie Gourmet” mental groups are more authentic and more successful. For plans for the future. Whether you’re young or old, you’ll Filmmakers and aspiring content producers will learn the best leave inspired and motivated to follow in their footsteps. the indigenous people of North America, and for other ways to get their environmental messages onto television. communities that have dealt with many decades of economic Panel: Wynn Padula, Lynx; Tracy Rector, March Point; James Ehrlich is Executive Producer and Director of “Organic and environmental injustice, this interwoven tapestry of issues Champ Williams, Attack of the Sea Slugs and Philip Ebiner, Living TV with the Hippy Gourmet”, www.HippyGourmet.com, is obvious. Panel: Moderator, Michael Ben of Channel G; Seed. a national PBS and syndicated television series that highlights Enei Begaye, Power Paths; Whit Sheard, Cost of Oil; Martin all things sustainable. In its tenth season, the show reaches O’Brein, Justicia Now; Linda Helm Krapf, Woven Ways; Beth over 34 million homes. Gage and Carrie Dann, American Outrage. 13 Carrie Dann is considered a living legend in the struggles of Native Americans. As a West- SPECIAL GUESTS ern Shoshone grandmother and activist, Carrie has been at the , of the Diné (Navajo) & Tohono O’odham Enei Begaye forefront of the Western Shosho- Nations, grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. She ne Nation’s struggle for cultural, is currently the Executive Director of the Black Mesa Water spiritual and land rights. With Coalition, a grassroots organization made up of young Na- her sister, who passed in 2005, vajo and Hopi people. Enei is also a co-founder of the Native she has squared off against Movement Collective, a non-profit organization working to international gold mining cor- build community between all people. Married to Evon Peter porations, the nuclear industry (a speaker at the 2006 festival) and a mother to two daugh- and the U.S. government. Their disputes reached the U.S. Supreme Court ters, Enei is a recognized advocate of Indigenous Peoples and eventually to the United Nations. Carries’s story is featured in the rights, youth, and the environment. Among other awards, filmAmerican Outrage, being shown on Saturday morning at Nevada Enei has recently been presented with Arizona’s Native City Elementary, and on Sunday afternoon in the Stone Hall. Carrie will American “Woman of Our Community” award as well as the speak on Saturday morning with the film, and at the Environmental Jus- Southwest’s “Water Guardian” award. Enei will be speaking tice workshop on Saturday at 4:00pm at Activist Center 2. on Saturday Evening at the Nevada Theatre with the film, Power Paths, as well as in the Environmental Justice workshop on Saturday, 4:00pm, at Activist Center 2. Laura Miller served as the Mayor of Jules Dervaes is the founder of Path Dallas, Texas, from 2002 to 2007. Her list of to Freedom, a family-operated urban home- environmental accomplishments as mayor is long stead project established in 2001 to pro- and includes: one of the state’s first restaurant mote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle. smoking bans and a greatly expanded curbside Since the mid-1980s, Mr. Dervaes and his recycling program. She also created the Texas three adult children, Anaïs, Justin, and Jor- Clean Air Cities Coalition, made up of 36 cities, danne, have steadily worked to transform counties and school districts in Texas which op- their ordinary city lot in Pasadena, Cali- posed the simultaneous construction of 11 pulver- fornia, into a thriving organic garden that ized coal plants. Miller is currently working with supplies them and their “citified” backyard Colorado-based Summit Power to develop the farm animals with food year round. These world’s first clean-coal IGCC power plant with eco-pioneers also run a successful business selling fresh produce to local restaurants. The carbon capture. Laura’s fight against the coal companies is featured in the income helps fund their purchases of solar panels, energy-efficient appliances, and a biod- filmFighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, screening on Friday evening in the iesel processor to further decrease the homestead’s reliance on Earth’s non-renewable Stone Hall and in on Sunday morning in Oddfellows. Laura will speak on resources. The Dervaes family will present their film,Homegrown Revolution on Friday Friday with the film, as well as in a workshop on Saturday called, “Mobi- evening in the Great Hall. They will also present a workshop about living sustainably on lizing Your Community” at Activist Center 1 at 1:00pm. Saturday, 2:00pm, at Activist Center 1. 14 Rick Ridgeway Lauren Van Ham has made a career received her ordination as combining his dual an interfaith minister in 1999 passions for business and served as a hospital SPECIAL GUESTS and adventure. Along chaplain for eight years. Jon Warnow and with three companions, As part of the hospital’s Ridgeway became the Environmental Action Com- Rachel Barge are both first American to sum- mittee, she advocated for winners of the prestigious Brower mit K2 and the first to more sustainable practices Youth Awards. Jon was the ge- do it without bottled ox- throughout the healthcare system. Lauren also nius behind Step It Up 2007—the ygen. He has produced worked as Executive Director for the non-profit or- highly coordinated National Day and directed over 30 ganization, Green Sangha, a community committed of Climate Action. He developed adventure shows for television and is the author of six to spiritually-based environmental activism. In 2007, and deployed the Internet strat- books and many magazine articles. Since 2004, Rick Lauren renewed her ordination vows and professed egy and tools that involved 1400 has been the Vice President of Environmental Initia- herself an “Eco-chaplain.” She currently works for communities in all 50 states– in tives and Special Media Projects at Patagonia. Friday Saatchi & Saatchi S (formerly Act Now), a sustain- just three months. Just one month evening at the Nevada Theatre presents an extraordi- ability agency providing facilitation and employee after Step It Up, all the major nary program on Patagonia’s current environmental engagement retreats for Fortune 100 companies democratic presidential candidates initiative, Freedom to Roam. He will also present a committed to having more sustainable business came out in support of the Step It workshop about the campaign on Saturday at Activist practices. Lauren will be speaking with the film,Re - Up goal and Barack Obama and Center 1 at 12:00pm. newal on Saturday morning in the Stone Hall. Hilary Clinton co-sponsored a bill with 80% reduction targets. Michael Brown grew up among a family of adventure filmmakers and has always loved telling stories. As a freshman at UC Berkeley, A pioneer in adventure filmmaking, Michael founded Serac Adventure Films in 1992 both to make original Rachel co-created the Green Initia- Drew Altizer Photography documentaries and to lend his production and adventuring skills to filmmakers like MacGillivray Freeman tive Fund, which successfully secured $2 million for sus- Films, for whom he was Director of Mountain Photography on the award-winning IMAX film,Alps: Giants of tainability projects on campus, including clean energy, Nature. He is the recipient of three national Emmy Awards from five nominations and sustainable transportation, improved energy efficiency has filmed on all seven continents during fifty expeditions. Michael has been to the and improved composting and recycling programs. She top of Mount Everest four times and was the first to bring an HD camera to the sum- also founded the Sustainability Team, a student intern- mit. Michael also has a passion for science and has used that skill during productions ship program dedicated to establishing sustainable for National Geographic Television, NOVA, NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, the BBC, Rush practices on campus. See Jon and Rachel speak after HD, and the Discovery Channel. But making films is about more than winning awards the Brower Youth Awards films on Saturday afternoon in and exploring uncharted territories. Serac is committed to “giving back” to their the Great Hall. subjects in some profound way while capturing the intense emotion that make their films so powerful. Michael is the recipient of the 2008 Wild & Scenic Most Inspiring Our special guests listed above are just a sample of the talented Adventure Film. He’ll present his new film, 3 Peaks 3 Weeks on Saturday evening in filmmakers, activists, and other incredible folks at this year’s the Vets Hall, and it will show again on Sunday. Michael’s workshop, The Power of festival! Check the Official Selection for additional guests Story, takes place Saturday, 12pm at Activist Center 2. with each film. 15 FILMS BY ISSUE & GENRE Red Gold Adventure Activism Global Perspective Native Americans A River’s Last Breath 3 Peaks, 3 Weeks Brower Youth Awards The Linguists American Outrage Run, Rogue, Run AK The Hard Way Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars The Price of Sugar March Point Upstream Battle Cascade de Lumiere Fury for the Sound: The Women of The Refugees of the Blue Planet Power Paths Water Loving Doggies II Climber Clayoquot Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives Sacred Place Darius Goes West Global Focus Schooling the World Woven Ways The Great Vacation Squeeze Justicia Now! Wildlife Attack of the Sea Slugs HandCut Renewal Chickens of the Sea Islenka Seed Free to Roam Presentation Lift This Brave Nation Gimme a Hug Nine Winters Old The Jurassic Journey Patagonia Winter Energy/Climate Karearea: The Pine Falcon The Sharp End Change/Resources Losing the Elephants Surfwise Addicted to Plastic The Mongolian Marmot The Wagbag Movement Along for the Ride Orangutan Foundation International The Western Lands: Hoy Burning the Future: Coal in America Orphans of Tsavo Climate Matters Papa Tortuga Agriculture/Food The Cost of Oil: Voices from the Arctic The Path of the Horse Eating Alaska Crossroads at the Columbia Saving Luna Homegrow Revolution Crude Substitute Stop Aerial Hunting of Wolves Meat the Truth Flow Tyger P is for Papaya Garbage Warrior Waterlands The Plight of the Honeybee Ghosts of Appalachia White Shark Cafe Strong Coffee Hardrock Mining: Rethink, Reform Wolves in Paradise World According to Monsanto I Love Trash Wild Ocean National Sacrifice Zone Short films we just Animation The Nuclear Comeback Don’t Release a Pest, Freezing is Best Quicksilver Legacy Shikashika Oceans couldn’t do wthout ... Free Range Studios Compilation So Right, So Smart Yele Haiti Keepers of the Deep Goldfish The Good Life Parable The Water Front Once Upon a Tide Hose Gorilla in the Greenhouse Who’s Got the Power? Health Paradise Found: The Phoenix Islands Historia de un Letrero Papiroflexia EDump Wild Ocen I Met the Walrus Placenta Forestry/Land Invisible maybe Wonder Water Web Preservation Under Our Skin Rivers Sand Dancer Zoologic Brave New West Drowning River Please note: These are general cat- Children of the Amazon Narrative Heather & Goliath egories. Many films fall under more Children’s Films Division Street A Sense of Wonder Journey of the Yuba than one category and genre. Hey! Something’s Fishy at the River Roadless Lynx The Last Descent The Riddle in a Bottle When Clouds Clear Punuy Wambra Last Frontier 16 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION ALL TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE & ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 3 Peaks, 3 Weeks Squaw Valley to the glacial peaks of southern Attack of the Sea Slugs Michael Brown, David D’Angelo, Greg S. Alaska. The skiers skip the helicopters for Champ Williams Moyer, Mark DeAngelis, Rob Faris, Andrew the “earn your turn” experience. (US, 2008, NC ELEM, FRI, 8:49PM Kaplan, Matthew Kennedy 45min, A) IN PERSON: Duane Kubischta Although the sand flats of Puget Sound ap- CA PREMIERE pear desolate, hiding in wait is a creature VETS HALL SAT, 7:28PM; Along for the Ride with an acquired taste for sea pens. As the VETS HALL, SUN, 3:37PM Colin Davis, Avo Murdock sun sets off the coast, this predator emerges A team of 10 women from Australia and VETS HALL, SAT 2:57PM to attack. (US, 2008, 5:40min, E) www. the USA come together to attempt to climb Join these guys in their often amusing bike nereusentertainment.com. IN PERSON: three of Africa’s highest peaks in less than adventure across America to discover energy Champ Williams three weeks. They hope to raise money and sustainability in the US. Providing vital in- awareness for three key issues affecting East sights into the threat of global warming, the Brave New West Africa today: environment, education, and film also presents achievable steps towards Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Carr HIV/AIDS. People’s Choice Award, Flagstaff solutions through interviews with many of NORCAL PREMIERE Mountain FF (US, 2007, 52min, A) www. the country’s leading experts. (US, 2008, MF STONE HALL, SAT, 8:22PM; seracfilms.com, www.3peaks3weeks.org. 70min, EA) IN PERSON: Colin Davis, Avo ODDFELLOWS, SUN, 3:10PM IN PERSON: Michael Brown Murdock A small cult of Ed Abbey followers descended on the American Southwest, many with Addicted to Plastic American Outrage dreams of preserving it’s natural beauty Ian Connacher Beth & George Gage via any means. Jim Stiles was one of them. NC ELEM, SAT, 2:40PM NC ELEM, SAT, 11:09AM; Three decades later, Stiles remains, a one- From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, MF STONE HALL, SUN, 2:20PM man show of sorts who has devoted his life plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty elderly to carrying on Abbey’s legacy, no matter how versatile material ever invented. But such Western Shoshone sisters who have always many people he pisses off in the process. progress has had a cost. Take this global jour- grazed their livestock outside their ranch in Runner-Up Best Feature, Aotearoa FF(US, ney to investigate what we really know about north central Nevada. That range is part of 2008, 87min, D) www.highplainsfilms.org. the material of a thousand uses and why the Shoshone land from the 1863 Treaty of IN PERSON: Dru Carr, Doug Hawes-Davis there’s so darn much of it. (CANADA, 2008, Ruby Valley. In 1974, the US sued the sisters 85min, E) www.crypticmoth.com. for trespassing on US Public Land. Why Brower Youth Awards would the US spend millions prosecuting two Rikshaw Films, Earth Island Institute AK The Hard Way elderly women grazing a few hundred horses MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 3:36PM Duane Kubischta and cows in a desolate desert? Audience Earth Island Institute established the Brower VETS HALL, FRI, 7:47PM Award, Ashland Independent FF (US, 2008, Youth Awards in 2000 to honor founder and Made by local Tahoe filmmaker, the film 60min, E) www.wsdp.org. IN PERSON: legendary environmental activist, David follows Miles Clark, Jackie Paaso, and Jeff Beth & George Gage, Carrie Dann Brower and to call forth a new generation of Seifred on their 3,000-mile road trip from leaders. The awards honor six young people 17 FINAL ART

A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun annually for their outstanding activism in Chickens of the Sea across the country and spur on Washington to the fields of environmental and social justice Steve Furman pass meaningful climate legislation. The top advocacy. (US, 2008, 28min) www.rikshaw- WORLD PREMIERE ten videos were broadcast to over 50 million films.com, www.broweryouthawards.org. NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 10:37AM; homes and shown to the media, members of IN PERSON: Sharon Smith, Jon Warnow, NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 9:45AM Congress, and both presidential campaigns at May Boeve, Rachel Barge ...a sea of grass, that is. Most of the native an October 2008, event in Washington. (US, prairie in North America is gone, and prairie 2008, 6:06min, E) www.brighterplanet.com Burning the Future: Coal in America chickens are rare, but if you’re lucky enough David Novack, Alexis Zoullas to find them, they’re fun to watch! (US, Climber MF GREAT HALL, FRI, 7:34PM; 2009, 7min, E) IN PERSON: Steve Furman, Carlos Villarreal-Kwasek MF STONE HALL, SUN, 3:31PM Susan Staats VETS HALL, FRI, 8:47PM; Activists in West Virginia watch the nation VETS HALL, SUN, 2:32PM praise coal without regard to the devastation Children of the Amazon For anyone who has ever been scared on rock caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic Denise Zmekhol or ice, fear can play a lead role … this time it ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million ODDFELLOWS, FRI, 8:33PM; takes shape. Best Short Film, Southwest FF acres of mountains, and a government that MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 2:05PM (Canada, 2006, 2:07min, AN) appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate For countless generations, the Amazon rain- a strength of purpose and character in their forest provided a home to the people who Conscious Alliance fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting lived in what they called “forest time”—be- Channel G their mountains and preserving their way yond the realm of contemporary human life. MASONS, FRI, 7:15PM; of life. Montana CINE Best of Fest (US, But their footpaths gave way to a road and MF STONE HALL, SUN, 1:10PM 2007, 89min, E) www.appvoices.org, www. then a highway cutting through 2000 miles of Many Native American communities and burningthefuture.com. IN PERSON: David forest. Lush forest was clear-cut and burned, people living on reservations are living far Novack, Steve Michelson deadly diseases killed off thousands of Indi- ans, and “forest time” suffered an Cascade de’ Lumiere irreversible transformation. (US/ Marten Berkman Brazil, 2008, 72min, E) US PREMIERE www.childrenoftheamazon.com MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 11:15AM IN PERSON: Denise Zmekhol, Marten is invited by his wilderness guide Jennifer Chinlund friend in the Yukon to leave the city and join him in an adventure down a remote river. Climate Matters: Videos As they journey through the wilderness, the from the Brighter Planet men ponder the meaning of life and place. Community (Canada, 2008, 25min, A) www.martenberk- MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 1:10PM man.com. IN PERSON: Marten Burkman, In 2007, Brighter Planet held an Ron Hansen online video contest to galvanize the creative energy of individuals Cascade de’ Lumiere 18 KVMR ad WSFF:tp 11/14/08 9:55 AM Page 1

Crossroads at the Columbia: awards, including Audience Choice Award, Oregon Confronts America’s Santa Barbara Intl’ FF (US, 2007, 94min, A) Energy Future www.dariusgoeswest.org Spence Palermo, Donna Quinn THE CA PREMIERE Division Street MF STONE HALL, SAT, 7:10PM Eric Bendick Liquified natural gas receiving ter- WORLD PREMIERE NEW minals are proposed for the lower MF STONE HALL, SAT, 9:10AM Columbia River near the historic Roads and cars have fragmented wild land- town of Astoria, Oregon. The passion scapes, ushered in urban sprawl, and chal- lenged some of the bedrock values we once NEWS and power of grassroots activism set against the backdrop of the took for granted. But as the transportation Have you heard? beauty, heritage and history of the crisis appears to be spiraling out of control, Children of the Amazon Columbia Pacific Region make this a new generation of ecologists, engineers, KVMR has revamped below the poverty line. The Conscious Al- a compelling story of America at the city-planners, and everyday citizens are the news hour. liance collects and distributes almost one crossroads. (US, 2008, 16min, E) www.in- transforming the future of the American road. million pounds of food a year and delivers terculturalimages.com, www.columbiariver- (US/Canada, 2008, 63min, EA) www.divi- For a refreshing it to America’s hungry both in cities and on keeper.org. IN PERSON: Spence Palermo, sionstreetmovie.com, www.transalt.org regional impoverished American Indian Reservations. Donna Quinn IN PERSON: Eric Bendick www.consciousalliance.org, www.channelg.tv news alternative, (US, 2007, 2005min,E) Crude Substitute: The Folly of Don’t Release a Pest, tune in weeknights 6pm IN PERSON: Michael Schoenfeld, Toddy Liquid Coal Freezing is Best Merrill Molly O’Brien, Daniel Hinerfeld, Erin Kiley George Tennant, George Zaleski, Michael MASONS, SAT, 2:41PM Bateman, Susan Zaleski The Cost of Oil: As the world’s most oil dependent nation, SAT, NEVADA THEATRE, 9:46AM America is facing critical choices about its Fish tanks, toilets, and the ocean? Learn how Voices From the Arctic to be a responsible aquarium hobbyist! (US, Joshua Dukes, Coulter Mitchell energy future. Now, the coal industry is ag- 2006, 3:17, K) ODDFELLOWS, FRI, 7:30PM gressively pushing a plan to turn coal into a The pressure to drill in the Arctic has intensi- liquid transportation fuel. (US,12:20min, E) fied with the increasing prices of crude oil. www.nrdc.org Drowning River But the potential for lower oil prices is at ML Lincoln what cost? The Alaskan Inupiat show how Darius Goes West MASONS, FRI, 7:23PM 1 0 5 .1 F M TRUCKEE When rising folk singer and starlet Katie Lee drilling in their nearby seas will forever alter Logan Smalley Full Spectrum Radio left Hollywood in 1954 and arrived in the their subsistence-living lifestyle and multiply VETS HALL, SAT, 10:33AM Music of all Varieties to untamed canyon lands of Arizona, her life the struggles of preserving their rich cultural Fifteen-year-old Darius and friends set off News & Public Affairs history. (US, 2008, 45min, E) www.stone- across America with the goal of getting his changed forever. This film captures the spirit soupfilms.us, www.alaskawild.org. wheelchair customized on MTV’s Pimp My of Katie Lee and Glen Canyon as it tells the Business Office 530-265-9073 story of a drowned paradise and features in- IN PERSON:Joshua Dukes, Coulter Mitchell Ride. Darius bravely faces his own fate with 24 hr. DJ line Muscular Dystrophy, and he sparks a revolu- terviews with Katie Lee and Chuck Bowden, 530-265-9555 / 800-355-KVMR Cascade de’ Lumiere tion in the lives of those he meets.Many as well as David Brower’s last footage of 19 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun Glen Canyon and Edward Abbey’s famous enterprise, TXU, authority to produce 11 new Freedom to Roam speech at Glen Canyon Dam. SUGGESTIVE coal plants, all using antiquated technology Rick Ridgeway LANGUAGE. (US, 2007, 20min, E) that would effect air quality. But a coalition FRI, NEVADA THEATRE, 7:24PM of mayors statewide started the battle for Patagonia’s long-term initiative, Freedom to Eating Alaska clean air. The movement was bipartisan, and Roam, is dedicated to establishing migration Ellen Frankenstein included Republican representatives, ranch- wildways for animals between protected ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 2:46PM ers, farmers, and ordinary people. (US, 2007, areas. Rick will present the fascinating story What happens to a vegetarian who moves 32min, E) www.fightinggoliathfilm.com. behind the campaign. (50min) IN PERSON: to the last frontier? She may have gone into IN PERSON: Former Dallas Mayor Laura Rick Ridgeway the wild, but she finds farmed salmon, toxics Miller getting into wild foods and the colonization Fury for the Sound: of the indigenous diet. The film is the quest of Flow The Women at Clayoquot an ex-urban vegetarian who moves to Alaska, Irena Salina, Steven Starr, Stephen Nem- Shelley Wine marries a fisherman and hunter and begins to eth, Yvette Tomlinson, Matt Parker NC ELEM, SAT, 10:17AM wonder what the ‘right’ thing to eat is. (US, MF STONE HALL, SAT, 2:14PM On a remote logging road, a small group of 2008, 56min, E) IN PERSON: Ellen Fran- This award-winning film investigates what activists gathered for 15 long years to protest kenstein, Spencer Severson experts label the most important political and the clear cutting of the local rainforest, and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The found themselves at the center of the largest eDump World Water Crisis. Interviews with scientists civil disobedience action in Canadian history. Michael Zhao and activists reveal the building crisis, at More than 850 average, law-abiding individu- MASONS, SAT, 2:10PM both the global and human scale, and the film als put their bodies on the line and were As the U.S. government is turning a blind introduces many of the culprits behind the arrested and jailed. The movement spawned eye on regulating electronic waste, and the water grab, while begging the question, “Can a model for international environmental electronics industry continues a slow pace anyone really own water?” Best Film, United activism followed to this day. People’s Choice in phasing out toxic materials, the e-waste Nations Association FF (US, 2007, 84min, trade has been polluting the environment and E) www.freeflo.org harming public health in developing coun- tries. (US, 2007, 21min, E) www.edump. Free Range Animation michaelzhao.net Compilation Free Range Studios Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 7:18PM Mat Hames, Cara Carney Wild & Scenic is honored to award Free WEST COAST PREMIERE Range Studios with the 2009 Environ- MF STONE HALL, FRI, 6:40PM; mental Filmmaker Award. With the award ODDFELLOWS, SUN, 9:40AM presentation, they will be screening a se- In 2006, Governor Rick Perry of Texas lection of their animations. (15min) fast-tracked an initiative giving a private In person: Louis Fox, Erica Priggen Garbage Warrior 20 ing human impact of the world’s growing Using traditional music, grassroots out- energy consumption. Banff Mountain reach and innovative technology to bring Culture Grant Award (US, 2008, 15min, sanitation to the most remote corners of E) www.ghostsofappalachia.org, www. Mozambique, Santos empowers villagers ilovemountains.org to participate in sustainable development IN PERSON: Sally Rubin, Jen Gilomen and rise up from poverty. VETS HALL, SAT, 7:10PM Gimme a Hug Russia - Marina Rikhvanova: As Russia Geert Droppers expands its petroleum and nuclear inter- NC ELEM, FRI, 7:10PM ests, Rikhvanova campaigned to protect Gimme a Hug At the top of the food chain, sharks Siberia’s Lake Baikal, one of the world’s most important bodies of fresh water, Award, Vermont FF (Canada, 2008, 52min, have been feared and dramatized in the from environmental devastation. ODD- E) www.furyforthesound.org, www.foresteth- media for years. Yet this amazing animal can FELLOWS, SAT, 8:20PM ics.org display one of the most mysterious phenom- ena in the animal world ... showing a totally Puerto Rico - Rosa Hilda Ramos: In the shadow of polluting factories in Cataño, Garbage Warrior different behavior then most people would expect. www.protect-the-sharks.org (Nether- Ramos led the movement to permanently Oliver Hodge, Rachel Wexler lands, 2008, 14min, E) protect the Las Cucharillas Marsh, one of ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 8:26PM the last open spaces in the area and one NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 10:30AM Global Focus - The New of the largest wetlands ecosystems in the What do beer cans, car tires and water region. MASONS, FRI, 7:10PM bottles have in common? Not much unless Environmentalists (US, 2008, 5min each, E) you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, Will Parrinello, Tom Dusenbery, John www. goldmanprize.org in which case they are tools of choice for pro- Antonelli IN PERSON: Quinn Costello ducing energy-independent housing. For 30 NORCAL PREMIERE years New Mexico-based Reynolds has been In 1990, San Francisco civic leaders and advancing the art of “Earthship Biotecture” philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman Goldfish by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid com- created the Goldman Environmental Prize. Joe Wein munities where design and function converge Through recognizing grassroots leaders, the MASONS, SAT, 7:14PM; in eco-harmony. Audience Award, vancouver Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people MF STONE HALL, SUN, 9:40AM Intl FF (UK, 2007, 84min, E) www.garbage to take extraordinary actions to protect the 2 girls. 1 Mission. A lot of fish. Many awards, warrior.com, www.earthship.org natural world. This year Wild & Scenic is including Audience Award, Austin FF (US, screening the following prizewinners’ stories: 2007, 12min, JF) www.goldfish-movie.com Ghosts of Appalachia Ecuador - Pablo Fajardo Mendoza and Sally Rubin, Jen Gilomen Luis Yanza:In the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Good Life Parable: WORLD PREMIERE Fajardo and Yanza led one of the largest An MBA Meets a Fisherman ODDFELLOWS, FRI, 6:48PM environmental legal battles in history Mark Albion and Free Range Studios Against the explosive backdrop of Appala- against oil giant Chevron, demanding jus- WEST COAST PREMIERE chia’s centuries-old struggle over the black tice for the massive petroleum pollution in NEVADA THEATRE, FRI, 7:15; rock that fuels our nation, the story of Bever- the region. ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 7:10PM SUN 1:10PM Mozambique - Feliciano dos Santos: Garbage Warrior ly May and Terry Ratliff reveals the devastat- A businessman and a fisherman meet on a 21 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun small island. He tries to teach the fisherman orado. Enjoy the original deep-country blues Historia de un Letrero for your event, concert,about business, but instead the man learns of John-Alex Mason. (US, 2008, 27min, A) Alonso Alvarez Barreda, or business meeting about life. (US, 2008, 3:06, AN) www.mak- ODDFELLOWS, FRI, 6:40PM; ingalife.com, www.freerangestudios.com Hardrock Mining – Rethink, Reform MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 7:10PM; IN PERSON: Mark Albion Adam Cramer, Nat Lopes MASONS, SUN, 1:12PM NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 7:22PM With a stroke of the pen, a stranger trans- it’s perfect hereGorilla in the Greenhouse (2 episodes) As human-powered outdoor recreation en- forms the afternoon for another man. Short Jay Golden, Eli Noyes, Ralph Guggenheim thusiasts, we all need metal, from climbing Film Online Competition, Cannes FF. (Mexi- co/US, 2007, 5:45min, JF) www.wamafilms. working foundry in 1860 with theWORLD PREMIERE carabiners and bike frames to trekking poles A Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ski edges. However, there remains a com. IN PERSON: Alonso Alvarez Barreda, original stone walls, massive fireplace,NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 10:27AM problem: 19th century values and policy are Anna Villareal and artifacts from daysFollow four kids and a green gorilla as they guiding 21st century high-tech mining tech- gone by…now, a overcome a demented plot by Dr. Morlon nology. www.outdooralliance.net (US, 2008, Homegrown Revolution cultural center with Hufflebot to create an island of plastic bags 6:25min, EA) Jules Dervaes emphasis on the arts.in the Pacific Ocean. (US, 2008, 8min, AN) IN PERSON: Adam Cramer, Bryan Dean, WORLD PREMIERE Turn It Up Day Jennifer McCadney MF GREAT HALL, FRI, 7:00PM Entertainment stages,MF GREAT HALL, FRI, 7:26PM In the midst of a densely urban setting in sound system, cateringWhen the crew finds out that the city is pow- Heather & Goliath downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking kitchen, conference room,ered by a massive coal-seeking mechanical Thea Mercouffer root. For over twenty years, the Dervaes fam- wireless throughout, worm,and it’s time for action. (US, 2008, 8min, AN) VETS HALL, SUN, 11:48AM ily have transformed their home into an urban ahelpful, knowledgeableIN PERSON: Jay Golden A whistleblower, a group of intrepid kayak- homestead. They harvest nearly 3 tons of or- staff. ers turned unwitting activists, and several ganic food from their 1/5 acre garden while The Great Vacation Squeeze environmental organizations defend the incorporating many back-to-basics practices, Please visit our web siteJohn de Graaf embattled L.A. River and change the course as well as solar energy and biodiesel. (US, for more information.VETS HALL, SUN, 11:34AM of history. (US, 2008, 8:24, EA) www.ameri- 2007, 12min, E) www.freedomgardens.org Vacations in America are an endangered canrivers.org IN PERSON: Jules, Justin, Jordanne, and species, with alarming implications for our IN PERSON: Thea Mercouffer Anais Dervaes health and productivity. It explores the prob- lem in Yosemite National Park, Seattle, and Hey! Something’s Fishy at the River Hose Europe. (US, 2008, 10min, D) Bruce Forman, Jason Kuykendahl Kevin Watkins, Natasha Lunn IN PERSON: John de Graaf WORLD PREMIERE MF STONE HALL, SUN, 9:53AM; NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 10:05AM VETS HALL, SUN, 1:10PM Handcut Salmon becomes a teacher for a boy and girl, In search of adventure, the Hose discovers Nick Waggoner with the help of other river animals in this children on TV and sets out to find them. A VETS HALL, SAT, 1:10PM puppet show on film for kids of all ages. (US, series of misadventures ensues and through 325 Spring St. Nevada City, CA 95959This classic-style ski film blends old-timer 2008, 19min, K) adversity, the little Hose learns to appreci- 530. 265. 5040 www.minersfoundryorgwisdom with self-propelled, big mountain IN PERSON: Bruce Forman ate what it has. Multiple awards (US, 2008, lines from Alaska, British Columbia, and Col- 12:30min, JF) www.hosefilm.com 22 Invisible Roz Mortimer The Jurassic Journey CA PREMIERE John Dutton Playing NC ELEM, SAT, 6:55PM MF STONE HALL, SAT, 1:10PM MF STONE HALL, SUN, 1:16PM Giant leatherback turtles have managed to Against the wintry backdrop of remain a mystery. To preserve these elusive the Arctic, this environmental art prehistoric creatures, determined scientists Where? film follows research into the far- have embarked on an ambitious mission ... reaching effects of chemicals on the to track its 7,000-mile journey across the environment in the women from the Pacific to its natal beaches in Indonesia. Starring Inuit community. (UK, 2006, 63min, Ocean Conservation Award, Santa Barbara E) www.wonder-dog.co.uk/invisible, Ocean FF (US, 2007, 9min, E) www.johndut- Islenka www.ourstolenfuture.com tonmedia.com. IN PERSON: John Dutton, Who? Manjula Tiwari Islenka: On the Road to Unearth Serving I Love Trash Justicia Now! What? David Brown Iceland’s Secrets Martin O’Brien, Robbie Proctor NC ELEM, SAT, 2:32PM Cecile Cusin, Jordan Campbell MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 3:00PM Wonder CA PREMIERE VETS HALL, FRI, 6:57PM A courageous group of people called Los Two rules: purchase nothing for 3 months; Lured by timeless volcanoes, sweeping Afectados (The Affected Ones) battle Chev- and live off of only the things and food found glaciers, and medieval landscapes, three ron Texaco and seek justice in the largest Why? in the trash. This dumpster diving experiment journalists descend on Iceland, an island of environmental class action lawsuit in history. reveals much about our society. (US, 2008, mystery and intrigue. The trio aims to ski the Audience Award, EcoFocus FF (US, 2007, 7:30min, E) IN PERSON: David Brown, country’s impressive volcanoes and glaciers, Entertainment magazine www.theunion.com but they are also committed to go beyond 31min, E) www.mofilms.org, www.chevron- Week of Gregg Mann Thursday, September 18, 2008 and unearth Iceland’s untold stories. Spirit toxico.com. IN PERSON: Martin O’Brien, Award, Moondance FF(US/France/Iceland, Robbie Proctor I Met the Walrus 2007,26min, EA) Josh Raskin, Jerry Levitan Karearea: The Pine Falcon NORCAL PREMIERE Journey of the Yuba Sandy Crichton SYRCL’sbig bash MF GREAT HALL, FRI, 6:55PM THE SOUTH YUBA CITIZENS LEAGUE IS Annabella and Alicia Funk CA PREMIERE CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF PROTECTING NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 9:40AM AND RESTORING OUR MAGNIFICENT YUBA MASONS, SAT, 10:05AM RIVER AND GREATER YUBA WATERSHED In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic, armed WORLD PREMIERE Page 4 There is a remarkable wild population of with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John STUDENT FILMMAKER AWARD NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 11:02AM; New Zealand falcons that have adapted to Lennon’s hotel room and convinced John to FIND OUT IN MF STONE HALL, SUN, 10:13AM live in commercial pine plantations. Set Welcome the do an interview. Using the original interview gentle giants against the constant threat of logging, the THE PROSPECTORA new musical This family-oriented history of the Yuba, Local garden season begins Page 12 recording as the soundtrack, director Josh WEEKLYmakes it to TVONwith T JazzHURSDAY written and directed by a local third-grade film threads in the photography and life of Page 3 Raskin has woven a visual narrative romanc- Page 5 wildlife photographer George Chance, who INSIDE THE UNION ing Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood girl, tells the story of both the challenges and followed and studied the birds for ten years. of multi-pronged animation. (Canada, 2007, beauty of the river. www.yubariver.org (US, Best Newcomer, Montana CINE (NZ, 2008, CALENDAR | ARTS | MUSIC 5:15min, JF) www.imetthewalrus.com 2008, 7min, K) IN PERSON: Annabella Funk 49min, E) www.karearea.com THEATER | DINING | MORE 23 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun Keepers of the Deep river on the brink of change. (Papua New lation of Asian Elephants left. The Elephant John Dutton, Mary Yoklavic Guinea, 2007, 19min, EA) www.riversinde- Nature Park is doing what they can. DIS- WORLD PREMIERE mand.com IN PERSON: Trip Jennings TURBING FOOTAGE. (US, 2008, 25min, E) NC ELEM, FRI, 8:41PM www.swellpicturesinc.com. The extent of marine debris and its potential Lift IN PERSON: Peck Euwer impacts to organisms living in deep water Timothy and Anthony Green habitats on the sea floor was unknown until US PREMIERE Lynx now. (US, 2008, 6min, E) marinedebris.noaa. VETS HALL, SAT, 10:11AM Wynn Padua, Ben Harris, Eric Binns gov, www.johnduttonmedia.com These brothers throw themselves off the STUDENT FILMMAKER AWARD IN PERSON: Mary Yaklovich, Milton Love world’s highest mountains, glaciers, bridges, ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 10:46AM; towers and construction cranes and then de- MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 9:44AM The Last Descent ploy glider parachutes and perform jaw drop- In Montana, an influential Native American Kathryn Scott, Charlie Center, Scott Ligare ping acrobatics on their way down. Publics rancher hires a biologist to try to find an WORLD PREMIERE Choice Award, International FF, Spain. www. endangered species in a forest that is slated VETS HALL, SAT, 1:57PM; acrotwins.com (US, 2008, 20min, A) to be logged. When the scientist discovers VETS HALL, SUN, 1:42PM IN PERSON: Timothy and Anthony Green planted lynx hairs in one of his traps, an Join a group of whitewater kayakers to armed conflict begins between the Native some of the world’s most amazing rivers ... The Linguists American ranchers and a logging company. descending them possibly for the last time. Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Panavision New Filmmaker Award (US, All are threatened or are in the process of Jeremy Newberger 2008, 17min, N) www.pixelcolors.com being destroyed by large scale hydroelectric MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 8:41PM; IN PERSON: Wynn Padua, Owen Bissell projects. The film closes with the movement ODDFELLOWS, SUN, 1:15PM to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley. (US, 2009, David and Greg are scientists racing to docu- March Point 50min, EA) www.thelastdescent.com, www. ment languages on the verge of extinction. Annie Silverstein, Tracy Rector, Nick Clark, internationalrivers.org. These linguists confront head-on the very Cody Cayou and Travis Tom IN PERSON: Kathryn Scott, Charlie Cen- forces silencing languages: institutionalized MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 7:41PM; ter, Scott Ligare racism and violent economic unrest. (US, MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 10:02AM 2007, 65min, D) www.ironboundfilms.com, Cody, Nick, and Travis, three teens from the Last Frontier: Conservation & www.livingtongues.org. Swinomish Tribe, wanted to make a gangster Exploration in Papua New Guinea IN PERSON: Greg Anderson movie, but they ended up filming one about Trip Jennings the impact of two oil refineries on their rez. VETS HALL, FRI, 7:23PM; Losing the Elephants This film is a coming of age story, following VETS HALL, SUN, 1:23PM Singer Rankin, Peck Euwer the boys as they begin to understand them- New Britain Papua New Guinea is one of MF STONE HALL, SAT 1:19PM selves, the environment and the threat their the last frontiers between the industrialized They are big, beautiful, smart, social, and people face. (US, 2008, 54min, E) world and tribal village life. This film weaves throughout Asia they are facing their own IN PERSON: Tracy Rector the story of an epic kayaking expedition mortality. It is estimated that by the early around the story of a culture, ecosystem and 2050s, there will no longer be a viable popu- 24 maybe The Mongolian Marmot of a ski-jumping nine-year old boy, three Sam Chou, Chuck Gammage Thomas Winston, Jo Young, Kent Madin hilarious 82-year old ski hikers, and a former WEST COAST PREMIERE CA PREMIERE military helicopter pilot who now soars over NEVADA THEATRE, FRI, 7:10PM; NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 9:55AM glacial peaks. What emerges is not only a the MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 9:42AM; The Mongolian Marmot holds a unique place story about these people, but one that truly MASONS, SUN, 1:10PM in past and present Mongolian culture. But captures the raw beauty of the winter season. A young perspective in a changing world asks today they are threatened by over-hunting Features music of Michael Franti. Awards, river the question: Why are we so scared? (Cana- and habitat destruction. Hear from the young Banff FF, Telluride MountainFilm (US, 2007, da, 2007, 2min, AN) www.style5.tv/maybe and old, herders and biologists, who share the 64min, A) www.ninewintersold.com importance of this little creature. (US, 2007, 23min, E) http://web.mac. The Nuclear Comeback heals. com/thomaswinston/. Justin Pemberton IN PERSON: Thomas MASONS, SAT, 1:10PM Winston In a world living in fear of climate change, the nuclear industry is now proposing itself National Sacrifice as a solution. It claims that nuclear power ©2004

Zone: Colorado & generation produces zero carbon emissions Bob Lickter the Cost of Energy ... and people are listening. Is it time we Independence learned to love the split atom? Or is there Urgent Joe Brown a risk that we might be jumping out of the CA PREMIERE carbon frying pan and into the plutonium medical care ODDFELLOWS, FRI, fire? Best NZ Feature. SOME DISTURBING 7:08PM FOOTAGE. (NZ, 2007, 53min, E) for our Colorado has been the setting www.icarusfilms.com community. One Water for many energy experiments and explorations, including Once Upon a Tide Weekdays: 8am-6pm the long and tumultuous study of America’s Kathleen Frith, Mark Shelley, Drew Takahashi Weekends: 9am-4pm Meat the Truth secret oil resource, oil shale. The film looks at NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 9:56AM; Karen Soeters, Monique van Dijk both past and future attempts to “unlock” this NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 1:15PM NORCAL PREMIERE 3 trillion barrel potential resource while pos- We embark on a journey where orcas swim ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 1:33PM ing a question, is the development of domes- through corn fields, scientists talk in rhyme, Although some films have succeeded in draw- tic fossil fuels a step backwards? (US, 2007, and the power of dreams helps her, and the ing public attention to the issue of global 19min, E) www.nationalsacrificezone.com audience, discover how the ocean touches all warming, they have repeatedly ignored one IN PERSON: Joe Brown, Marisa Duran parts of our Earth and nurtures our existence. of the most important causes of climate Best of Fest, Santa Barbara Ocean FF. (US, change: livestock production. Livestock farm- 2007, 9:15min, K) www.healthyocean.org ing generates more greenhouse gas emissions Nine Winters Old worldwide than all cars, trains, boats and Rich Corbett, Bill Heath 2090 Nevada City Hwy VETS HALL, SUN, 10:30AM planes added together. (Netherlands, 2008, Grass Valley 73min, E) www.meatthetruth.com From the perspective of a ski photographer, the film weaves together the winter stories 530-274-5020 25 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun One Water peace. (Kenya, 2008, 6min, E) www.shel- Paradise Found: Ali Habashi, Sajeev Chatterjee drickwildlifetrust.org, www.channelg.tv. The Phoenix Islands NC ELEM, FRI, 8:58PM; IN PERSON: Michael Schoenfeld Kate Raisz MF STONE HALL, SUN 10:33AM WORLD PREMIERE Filmed in 15 countries, One Water brings P is for Papaya NC ELEM, FRI, 7:28PM together stunning visual sequences and com- Aube Giroux In a remote corner of the Pacific, the nation pelling commentary to highlight our changing ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 1:10PM of Kiribati has created the world’s largest and challenging relationship to water. (US, Told as a romance gone bad, this short docu- marine reserve, the Phoenix Islands Pro- 2008, 68min, E) www.onewaterthemovie.org mentary reveals some of the sour secrets tected Area. The reserve is home to thriving IN PERSON: Sanjeev Chatterjee, beneath the skin of this popular tropical fruit. coral reefs and abundant sea life. The film Ali Habashi (Canada, 2007, 8min, E) www.sayotogmos.org follows scientific expeditions to these islands and the efforts to create the reserve. (US, Orangutan Foundation Papa Tortuga 20min, 2005, E) www.neaq.org, www.phoe- International Rob and Elise Wilson nixislands.org. Channel G NC ELEM, SAT, 9:51AM; IN PERSON: Kate Raisz MASONS, SAT, 9:45AM MASONS, SAT, 7:27PM Orangutans are a species under threat of Fernando shows that one person CAN make a Patagonian Winter extinction in the wild due to habitat loss as difference. His efforts in Tecolutla, Veracruz, Alastair Lee tropical rainforests are logged and converted Mexico, have helped to save the endangered VETS HALL, SAT, 9:40AM to palm oil plantations. OFI has an orang- Lora Sea Turtles from extinction. Best of Andy Kirkpatrick is a pioneer of winter utan care center and orphanage for over 200 Show, SF Ocean FF. (Mexico, 2006, 20min, climbing in Patagonia, with many hair-raising orangutans needing to be cared for in prepa- E) www.papatortuga.org. ascents to his name. This hilarious film docu- ration for reintroduction to the wild. (Borneo, IN PERSON: Rob and Elise Wilson 2007, 6min, E) www.orangutan.org, www. channelg.tv. Papiroflexia IN PERSON: Michael Schoenfeld Joaquin Baldwin NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 10:57AM; Orphans Of Tsavo NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 1:10PM Channel G Spanish for “origami”, Papiroflexia, MASONS, SAT, 9:51AM; is the animated tale of Fred, a skill- MF STONE HALL, SUN, 10:06AM ful paper folder who could shape the The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is the world with his hands. Multiple awards. leader in wildlife conservation for all Africa (US, 2007, 2:30min, K) www.pixel- focusing on anti-poaching operations, com- nitrate.com. IN PERSON: Joaquin munity outreach, and successful rehabilita- Baldwin, Gustavo Morales tion back into wild, for rhino and elephant orphans. Tsavo National Park is one place Papa Tortuga 26 where elephant can raise their families in ments his latest Patagonian horror The Price of Sugar show; an attempt at the first winter Bill Haney, Erin Grunebaum ascent of Torre Egger with fel- MF GREAT HALL, SAT, low alpinist Ian Parnell. Multiple 1:23PM; awards, People’s Choice, Kendal MASONS, SUN, 10:34AM Mountainfilm. (UK, 2007 31min, In the Dominican Republic, tour- A) www.posingproductions.com ists flock to beaches unaware that a few miles away dispossessed, The Path of the Horse enslaved Haitians are harvesting Stormy May sugarcane, much of which ends US PREMIERE up in our kitchens. Narrated ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 9:40AM by the late Paul Newman, the There are individuals from around film follows Father Hartley, a the world who are considered charismatic Spanish priest, as he ‘pathfinders’. Through the develop- organizes people to fight for their ment of respect, humility, and an Red Gold basic human rights. You’ll never inner stillness, these people have look at your box of sugar in the ance of bees. Often their opinions on the learned to relate to horses in ways that bring same way again. Audience Award, SXSW FF cause of the disease differ, but they all agree to life the myths of the equine species. The (US, 2007, 90min, E) www.priceofsugar.com on one thing–a world without honeybees is a teachers each have a different vision; yet the dire prospect. (US, 2008, 15min, E) www. lessons shared are universal - for animals and honeybeequiet.com. IN PERSON: Jenny Punuy Wambra humans. (US, 2008, 60min, E) www.stormy- Townsend, Kelly Adams Renzo Zanelli may.com. IN PERSON: Stormy May US PREMIERE Power Paths VETS HALL, SAT, 9:49AM Placenta A porter in the Andes is hired by a company Bo Boudart, Chris Phillipp, Norman Brown Joaquin Baldwin to explore a glacier so that it can figure out NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 8:43PM; WEST COAST PREMIERE how to extract the gold underneath. The film MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 11AM MASONS, SAT, 7:10PM is based on real circumstances that occurred The Navajo, Hopi and Lakota Sioux tribes MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 9:40AM in Chile. (Peru, 2008, 15:15min, N) www. are finding ways to introduce renewable en- A celebration of life & beauty, this autobio- magicflutefilm.com, www.nodirtygold.org ergy projects into their communities through graphical film uses photography, motion graph- a grassroots movement. They are resolved ics and rotoscoped video. (US, 2007, 2min, to protect their lands for future generations, Quicksilver Legacy AN) IN PERSON: Joaquin Baldwin, whether on the great plains or in the deserts Keith Kerns Gustavo Morales of the southwest. We witness their struggle WORLD PREMIERE to reclaim the destiny of their tribes and how MASONS, SAT, 2:43PM The Plight of the Honeybee they defend the air, water, and land from fur- Mercury in our water- How did it get there? Jenny Townsend, Kelly Adams ther degradation by the impacts of extractive How does it affect our environment ... and us? WORLD PREMIERE mining and burning hydrocarbons on their (US, 2008, 2:44min, E) www.sierrafund.org. MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 10:04AM lands. (US, 2008, 55:41min, E) www.power- IN PERSON: Alan Stahler, Keith Kerns Colorado beekeepers and bee experts share Papa Tortuga paths.tv. IN PERSON: Enei Begaye their theories on the mysterious disappear- 27 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun Red Gold The Refugees of the Blue Planet To solve this riddle, they meet underwater Rivers Act, and remains a world-class white- Lauren Oakes, Travis Rummel, Hélène Choquette, Jean-Philippe Duval creatures and a one-legged pirate, who sings water destination. Yet logging in the canyon Ben Knight MASONS, FRI, 8:40PM; a song that helps pave the way to the riddle’s threatens to destroy the river and its tributar- NORCAL PREMIERE MASONS, SUN, 9:40AM answer. (US, 2008, 30min, K) www.sisbro. ies.(US, 2008, 7:30min, E) IN PERSON: NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 7:32PM; In 2003, the United Nations indicated that com. IN PERSON: Laura and Robert Sams Kyle Dickman MF GREAT HALL, SUN, 1:10PM for the first time in history, environmental The headwaters of the Kvichak and Nush- refugees (25 million) outnumbered those A River’s Last Breath Sacred Place agak Rivers in Alaska are home to the two fleeing from war or political persecution (23 Trip Jennings Terra Nyssa largest sockeye salmon runs on the planet. million). And their numbers keep on increas- WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE And at that same spot, mining companies ing. (Canada, 2007, 53min, E) VETS HALL, SAT, 1:42PM MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 11:45AM have proposed to extract what may prove to MF STONE HALL, SUN, 10:23AM Local filmmaker Terra Nyssa spent time be the richest deposit of gold and copper in Renewal China currently has more dams than any with the Gwich’in people of Alaska in 2008. the world. Native fishermen who oppose the Marty Ostrow, Terry Kay Rockefeller other country in the world and has plans to These people, struggling to hold on to dam are up against mine officials who say MF STONE HALL, SAT, 10:17AM add 1200 in the near future. Travis Winn their sacred way of life are working to keep they will build a ‘clean’ mine that will leave Driven by their spiritual and religious convic- and a group of international and Chinese gas and oil development out of the Arctic the salmon’s habitat untouched. Audience tions, people are re-examining what it means participants travel down the Great Bend of National Wildlife Refuge. The story is told Choice Award, Director’s Choice Award, Tel- to be human and how we live on this planet. the Yangtze for the last time before 3 dams by Gwich’in elder Sarah James. (US, 2008, luride MountainFilm (US, 2008, 55min, E) The film presents eight individual stories of inundate China’s premier stretch of white 8min, E) www.redgoldfilm.com, www.savebristolbay. Americans in different faith traditions, who water. (China, 2008, 10min, EA) www.rivers- IN PERSON: Terra Nyssa org. IN PERSON: Lydia Olympic are working to become indemand.com. IN PERSON: Trip Jennings better stewards of the Sand Dancer environment. Best of Fest, Roadless is More: Taking Care of Valerie Reid Hazel Wolf FF (US, 2007, Our National Forests VETS HALL, SAT, 2:52PM; 90min, E) www.renewal- Adam Cramer, Tom O’Keefe, Nat Lopes ODDFELLOWS, SUN, 1:10PM project.net. VETS HALL, FRI, 6:55PM Hundreds of people are drawn from all over IN PERSON: Marty Backcountry areas that remain road-free the world to watch him create vast arts Ostrow, Lauren Van Ham provide clean drinking water and a refuge for works. Beautiful as his art is, it cannot last many species. These wild areas need the help ... like a Buddhist mandala, his masterpieces The Riddle of those who enjoy them most–outdoor recre- vanish as soon as the tide starts to wash in a Bottle ation enthusiasts. (US, 2008, 2:22min, EA) them away. Best Doc, Foursite FF(NZ, 2006, Laura Sams, Robert Sams www.outdooralliance.net, www.hilride.com 10:56min, JF) www.forcefivefilms.co.uk CA PREMIERE IN PERSON: Nat and Rachel Lopes NEVADA THEATRE, Saving Luna SAT, 11:44AM Run, Rogue, Run NEVADA THEATRE, FRI, 8:24PM; The Riddle Solvers are Andy Maser, Kyle Dickman NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 2:37PM; two siblings who run a NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 7:10PM MASONS, SAT, 8:12PM riddle-solving stand, solv- The Rogue River was one of the original riv- Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit Sand Dancer ing riddles for 5¢ a piece. ers designated under the 1968 Wild & Scenic What happens when a wild orca tries to 28 Schooling the The Sharp End Stop Aerial Hunting of Wolves World: Peter Mortimer Cindy Hoffman The White Man’s VETS HALL, FRI, 8:54PM; MASONS, SAT, 7:57PM; VETS HALL, SUN, 2:34PM Last Burden VETS HALL, SUN, 10:04AM Enter the danger zone with legendary climb- Alaska is truly our nation’s last frontier. It is Carol Black, ers Tommy Caldwell, Lisa Rands, Steph Davis, Neal Marlens, also the last place in the U.S. where a few Chris McNamara and others. Run-out routes, hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill Mark Grossan, scary high-bail boulder problems, ice-covered Jim Hurst wolves and other animals. Although Congress alpine walls, and all-or-nothing free solo as- put an end to it, Alaska is exploiting a loop- NEVADA THEATRE, cents will keeps your palms perspiring. Best SAT, 1:20PM; hole in federal law to resume the practice. Climbing Film, Boulder Adventure FF (US, DISTURBING FOOTAGE. (US, 2007, ODDFELLOWS, 2008, 63min, A) www.senderfilms.com SUN, 2:20PM 11:37min, E) IN PERSON: Pamela Flick of The question of Defenders of Wildlife globalization goes Shikashika into the classroom. Stephen Hyde Strong Coffee: Saving Luna Schooling the World VETS HALL, SAT, 7:18PM; The Story of Cafe Femenino make friends with people? In 2001, when takes a troubling, yet VETS HALL, SUN, 10:20AM Sharron Bates, Carmer Klotz Luna was just a baby, he found himself alone important, look at the often-harmful effects It’s not just any snow that makes a shikashika MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 10:27AM in Nootka Sound, more than 200 miles away of Western education on indigenous cultures. (‘snow cone’ in Peruvian). How about sweet Café Femenino beans are the first and only from his family. The same social instincts (US, 2008, 50min, D) www.isec.org.uk. glacial ice from a volcanic mountain? Best coffee beans grown entirely by women farm- that drove Luna to seek companionship also IN PERSON: Carol Black Cultural Short, Telluride MountainFilm (Peru, ers. To better understand the resulting cul- brought people to him, in spite of the law. 2008, 10:20min, JF) www.shikashika.com tural shift, coffee roasters travel to Northern Luna became a symbol of the world’s wildest Seed Peru to meet some of the women farmers beauty: easy to love, hard to save. Multiple So Right, So Smart who grow this high quality, certified organic, Phil Ebiner Leanne Robinson-Maine, Justin Maine, Awards. (Canada, 2008, 92min, E) www. WORLD PREMIERE fair trade coffee. Most Ambitious Film, savingluna.com Guy Noerr, Justin Swantek Washougal International FF (Canada, 2007, NC ELEM, SAT, 9:40AM WORLD PREMIERE A seed, a boy, and the passage of time. (US, 47min, E) www.strongcoffeefilm.com Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 2:15PM; 2008, 7:19min, E) seedmovie.webs.com MASONS, SUN, 1:17PM The Environmental Impact of War IN PERSON: Phil Ebiner Some corporations are realizing that fitting Super Recycle Girl Steve Michelson, Alice & Lincoln Day into natural systems is smarter than trying Marya Hicks MASONS, SAT, 2:48PM A Sense of Wonder to control them. Under the inspiring leader- WORLD PREMIERE In all its stages, from the production of Christopher Monger, Karen Montgomery ship of Ray Anderson, Interface is a green NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 10:21AM weapons through combat to cleanup and res- CA PREMIERE leader, alongside Patagonia, Green Mountain Part 1: Not Just a Day in the Park - Our toration, war entails actions that pollute land, MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 9:10AM Coffee, and New Belgium. What is most heroine is determined to clean up the world, air, and water, destroy biodiversity, and drain Using Rachel Carson’s writing as the basis for remarkable is not the change of mind, but the one can at a time (US, 2007, 2:14mn); Part natural resources. The environment remains the monologue, this narrative is an intimate change of heart these companies experience as 2: Reduces Carbon Footprint - Super Recycle war’s silent casualty. SOME DISTURBING reflection of Carson, in the final year of her they recognize that environmental stewardship Girl answers the call for some critical carbon FOOTAGE. CINE Golden Eagle Award. (US, life, as she battles the critics of Silent Spring. is ethical and imperative. (US, 2008, 97min, reduction. (US, 2007, 3:25min, E) 2008, 67min, E) www.scarredlands.org. (US, 2007, 54min, N) www.asenseofwonder- E) IN PERSON: Leanne Robinson-Maine, IN PERSON: Marya Hicks IN PERSON: Steve Michelson film.com. IN PERSON: Kaiulani Lee Justin Maine 29 A=Adventure N=Narrative E=Environmental EA=Environmental Adventure 2009 OFFICIAL SELECTION AN= Animation K = Kids D= Documentary JF = Just for Fun Surfwise of the Sierra Club for 30 years, running to cope with a growing terror under our skin. Water Loving Doggies II Doug Pray, Todd Wagner, Dana Merwin, the organization since 1992. Van Jones has FREDDIE Award (US, 2008, 103min, E) Philip Hassan, Guillaume Habekoss Graydon Carter founded several organizations within the last IN PERSON: Andy Abrahams Wilson, WORLD PREMIERE VETS HALL, SAT, 8:30PM decade, including The Ella Baker Center for Jordan Fisher Smith SAT, NEVADA THEATRE, 9:40AM The first family in surfing became famous for Human Rights and Green For All. Together When will those dog days of summer at the its large size, for earning countless trophies, they discuss the many possible solutions for Upstream Battle Yuba return? (US, 2008, 5min, JF) and for its eccentric leader, Dorian “Doc” our times. (US, 2007, 25:15min, E) www. Joachim Schroeder, Ben Kempas IN PERSON: Philip Hassan, Guillaume Paskowitz. Born in quick succession and bravenation.com, www.greenforall.com, MF STONE HALL, FRI, 7:22PM; Habekoss never placed in school, the kids were raised www.sierraclub.org MF GREAT HALL, SUN 3:17PM away from the conventional world, in the Native Americans in Northern California fight Waterlands ocean, and in an ever-moving camper. It is a Tyger for their fish and the survival of their culture. Mark Percival turbulent yet entertaining ride to find that Guilherme Marcondes An energy corporation is destroying the river MASONS, FRI, 7:43PM next great wave. (US, 2007, 93min, A) MASONS, SAT, 9:40AM with a series of hydropower dams, contribut- The UK’s wildlife comes alive in this lyrical www.surfwisefilm.com A tiger invades the city in this beautiful pup- ing to one of the worst fish die-offs in U.S. film capturing the majesty of some of Britain’s petry film. (Brazil, 2006, 5min, E) history. Yet, the tribes at the Klamath River rarest wetland birds and the heroics of their This Brave Nation: may trigger the largest dam removal project protection. (UK, 2007, 48min, E) www.rspb. Carl Pope and Van Jones Under Our Skin in history. (Germany, 2008, 98min, E) org.uk Christopher Sprinkle, Erikka Yancy Andy Abrahams Wilson NORCAL PREMIERE NC ELEM, SAT, 8:03PM; The WagBag Movement The Western Lands: Hoy MF STONE HALL, SAT, 7:54PM MASONS, SUN, 2:56PM Jason Keith Grant Gee Carl Pope has worked loyally in the name This groundbreaking documentary investi- VETS HALL, FRI, 8:49PM VETS HALL, SUN, 9:40AM gates the human, Climber Timmy O’Neil shows you how to go Writer Jim Perrin’s attempts to climb Old medical, and politi- in the wilderness. (US, 2005, 4min, EA) www. Man of Hoy on his 60th birthday. The result is cal dimensions of accessfund.org a poetic adventure of love, loss and landscape Lyme disease, an as the light fades. Best Short Film, Banff FF. emerging epidemic The Water Front SUGGESTIVE LANGUAGE. (UK, 2007, destroying count- Liz Miller, Curtis Smith 9min, A) less numbers of MF STONE HALL, SAT, 7:31PM lives. Following the What if you lived by the largest body of fresh When Clouds Clear stories of patients water in the world but could no longer af- Anne Slick, Danielle Bernstein and physicians ford to use it? Residents of Highland Park, NC ELEM, SAT, 1:10PM as they battle for Michigan, have received water bills as high as The mining project proposed in Junin, Ec- their lives and $10,000; they have had their water turned off, uador, by Ascendant Copper would prove livelihoods, the film and are struggling to keep water from becom- extremely harmful to the town, causing mas- brings into focus a ing privatized. Multiple awards, including Best sive deforestation, climate change, threatening haunting picture of of Fest, Hazel Wolf Environmental FF (US, endangered species and forcing hundreds of our healthcare sys- 2008, 22min, E) www.waterfrontmovie.com, families to relocate. But what can be done Wild Ocean tem and its ability www.foodandwaterwatch.org when even communities and families have 30 been torn apart over the conflict? (US/Ecuador, ing the reality of global warming head on, this mans and the seas while playfully inspir- 2008, 77min, E) IN PERSON: Danielle Bern- film presents genuine and workable solutions. ing an appreciation for the interconnect- stein, Annie Slick Best Documentary, Independent FF (US, edness of all life. (US, 2005, 7min, AN) 2007, 57min, E) www.globalpossibilities.org www.wonderwaterweb.com. White Shark Café IN PERSON: Roger Blonder Sean Aronson Wild Ocean MF STONE HALL, SAT 1:47PM Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas The World According Great white sharks have captured people’s NC ELEM, FRI, 7:54PM to Monsanto attention for thousands of years. But the NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 1:22PM Marie-Monique Robin scientific study of these giant predators is less Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa, ODDFELLOWS, SUN, 10:12AM than 50 years old. Once thought to be coastal the film celebrates the life in our oceans, the Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE animals, biologists have discovered that they animals that now depend on us to survive, and seeds used by the US market. The cor- in fact travel thousands of miles. One area the efforts by the local people to protect this poration’s long arm stretched so far that, they visit has been dubbed the ‘white shark invaluable ecological resource. Best Sound in the early nineties, the U.S. Food and cafe’. (US, 2008, 24min, E) www.topp.org. Design & Score Awards, Giant Screen Cinema Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of IN PERSON: Sean Aronson Assoc. (South Africa, 2008, 40min, E) www. their own scientists, who were caution- wildoceanfilm.com ing that GE crops could cause negative health effects. This powerful company’s Who’s Got the Power? Zoologic Thomas Jewett, Casey Coates Danson & Wolves in Paradise lies, bribery, and misleading advertising Hidden Door Documedia William Campbell is all exposed in this explosive French Haiti’s projects that are conceived to renew ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 7:18PM MASONS, SAT, 10:54AM documentary. (France, 2008, 109min, E) hope for Haitians to rebuild their nation. From the vantage points of scientists, environ- Ranchers in southwest Montana face the www.monsantofilm.com, www.responsi- (Haiti, 2007, 5min,E) www.yele.org, www. mental activists, physicians, financial advisers, challenge of living with wolves after the top bletechnology.org channelg.tv designers, builders, coal miners and others, predator was reintroduced to Yellowstone IN PERSON: Michael Schoenfeld the global warming debate unfolds. Address- National Park. They cope with the frustra- Woven Ways tion of running livestock in Linda Helm Krapf Young Filmmakers Project wolf country, while fending off ODDFELLOWS, SAT, 11:05AM NEVADA THEATRE, SUN, 2:07PM another threat to his way of Much of the uranium for nuclear power plants WORLD PREMIERE life: encroaching development. and valuable deposits of coal, oil and gas lay A special presentation (created during the CINE Golden Eagle Award beneath the Navajo Reservation. The film is a festival weekend!) of Wild & Scenic and Find- (US, 2007, 57min, E) lyrical testimony to Navajo beauty and hope in ing the Good. See page 32 for details. the face of grave environmental injustice. Best of Fest, Colorado Environmental FF (US, Wonder Water Web Zoologic Roger Blonder 2007, 50:12min, E) www.wovenways.org IN PERSON: Linda Helm Krapf Nicole Mitchell SAT, NEVADA THEATRE, MASONS, SAT, 10:01AM; 9:49AM NEVADA THEATRE, SAT, 1:15PM This animated tribute to the Yele Haiti A fussy zookeeper goes about his daily oceans raises awareness about Channel G routine, but he must contend with a very un- the relationship between hu- MF GREAT HALL, SAT, 1:16PM cooperative little penguin. Student Academy Wonder Water Web Musician Wyclef Jean brings to life Yéle Award (US, 2007, 4:27min, AN) 31 Film Sales BUY RAFFLE TICKETS Be sure to check out the Film Sales area in the Miners Once again, we have some amazing prizes for the Foundry. Many of the films from this year’s festival Wild & Scenic Raffle! MORE GREAT STUFF will be on sale. Film Sales will close early on Sunday • 2 Nights in a suite at Stanford Inn by the Sea in afternoon, so buy early. Mendocino Special FREE Friday Workshop for Musicians • Tickets to the 2009 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Friday, January 9 Saturday Morning Cartoons • Free Film Festival Library rentals for 1 year How Musicians & Filmmakers Can Work Together Kids of all ages are • Products from Amazing Grass, Juniper Ridge, 1:30-2:30pm, Stone Hall of the Foundry invited to attend the Green Mountain Coffee, Tom’s of Maine, EcoTeas, with Tim Sweeney, entertainment consultant Saturday Morning Ecologic, Dagoba Chocolate, Clif Bar & more Interested in getting your music into film and Cartoons session on • Sweaters from Indigenous Designs television? Your future success is not through a Saturday, 9am-noon, • Shoes from Chaco screening company but working directly with in the Nevada Theatre. Tickets will be available at HQ, the SYRCL booth filmmakers. Join us as entertainment industry Tickets are only $5 at the Foundry, and from roaming raffle kids. The expert, Tim Sweeney shows you how you can for adults or children, winners will be drawn and notified in the week after develop personal relationships with filmmakers, and will be sold (if the festival. what you can offer them besides your songs and available) at the box Don’t Release a Pest how their films can help pay for your next CD! If office at the theatre interested in FREE MENTORING throughout the (cash only, please!) You can also use your Weekend THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS! festival, contact Tim directly: 951-303-9506! Pass or Saturday Morn/Aft ticket. Space is always limited at this session, so priority is given to children Nearly 500 volunteers work to make this Young Filmmakers Project and their accompanying adults. event a reality & a success. Thank you All weekend a group of especially to our Key Volunteers high school students will Festival T-Shirts be capturing footage You won’t want to go home without purchasing an who go the extra mile: and conducting official festival t-shirt. Check them out at Fest HQ and Gabriel Ross, Lu Mellado, Marya Hicks, interviews as part of the at the SYRCL booth at the Miners Foundry. Abby Limov, Rick Hartmann, Gary Moon, Young Environmental Megan & Don Timpany, Leslie & Merrill Warren, Filmmaker’s Workshop SYRCL’s Film Festival Library Penelope Curtis, Michael McGahan, and Film Project. This is Many of the films from the festival will be available for a special opportunity, rent at the SYRCL office, 216 Main St. Nevada City. Wendy Thompson, Leslie Kerns,Gregory Shaffer, organized by Wild Our Film Festival Library boasts titles from the last few Ceii Chilcott, Halley Miglietta, Melinda Day, & Scenic and Debra years of festivals. Erin Minett, Janice Rosner, Emily Rivenes, and Tom Weistar of Finding the Kelly Casterson, The Lewis Family, Good, for students to learn about environmental Student Screenings Richard Thomas, Julie Dennis, Theresa Thomas, filmmaking. The group will present their short For the last few years, Wild & Scenic has shown film from the festival on Sunday afternoon in the environmental films to student groups on the Friday Sue Roberts, Shari Wilson, Cat Cook, Nevada Theatre. A special thank you to Gabriel morning of the festival. A big thank you to Susie Marilyn Mociun, Jessie Raeder, Ross for sponsoring this special project. For more and David Bavo and participating filmmakers for Sandy Simmonds, Vange Elston, information or to sign up, go to www.synergia.org. making this program a success. Melissa & Mike Murray 32 Our National Partners For more information, please contact Tour Manager, Susie Sutphin at Our alliance of National Partners enables SYRCL’s [email protected] or (530)582-5334. Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival to WILD & SCENIC ON TOUR share inspiring films with communities nationwide If you have been to the festival before you know that its energy is infectious, through the ON TOUR program. Their support fuels an engine to create new activists. With each tour and the messages of the films motivating. We created the traveling tour because the films fea- venue, we are building an activist base that shares tured at SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival are too powerful not to share. We’ve our goal for a healthier planet. bundled the home festival into a turn-key kit that we provide to communities across the country. The festival has proven to be an educational as well as entertaining way to introduce people to PATAGONIA is the home festival and tour’s pre- environmental issues effecting us all. senting sponsor. Their generous support helps us reach thousands of people with the event. Patago- When we asked one of our tour venues coordinators about the tour, Lesley Adams of the Klamath- nia continues to serve as a model for how all cor- Siskiyou Wildlands Center, had this to say, “Film is a wonderful medium that can brings diverse porations should conduct business. The company’s environmental grants program helps activists who audiences together around a universal issue. By hosting the Wild & Scenic On Tour in Medford, take radical and strategic steps to protect habitat, Oregon, we’ve been given the opportunity to reach out to the Medford community in a new and wilderness and biodiversity. They have given more creative way.” than $31 million to more than 1,000 organizations since the grants program began. In 2008, the Wild & Scenic On Tour reached 80 venues. In those 80 venues, the tour reached close to 12,000 people. Seventy of those venues were hosted by environmental groups. Wild & CLIF BAR & COMPANY is a leading maker of Scenic has a built-in action component organic and all-natural energy and nutrition foods which helps these grassroots orga- and drinks. Committed to sustainability, Clif Bar & nizations increase membership on Company works continuously to reduce its footprint average by 10 percent. Even more on the planet from the field to the final product. exciting, 40 percent of those who attended were not members of these creates effective personal TOM’S OF MAINE organizations, demonstrating that the care products using simple, natural ingredients. Their products do not contain artificial sweeteners, tour is successfully reaching out into preservatives, colors, flavors, or animal ingredi- the communities to bring together a ents; and are packaged in earth-friendly ways. diverse audience. We are planning Through the Rivers Awareness PartnershipTM, Tom’s to reach 100 venues in 2009, as well of Maine has partnered with grassroots groups as pilot our ON CAMPUS festival to to raise public awareness about the health of our colleges and high schools. rivers. 33 The Festival Staff BECOME A SYRCL MEMBER Kathy Dotson, Film Festival Director 2008 was a remarkable year for SYRCL. altered lower Yuba River, one of the last wild salmon rivers Janet Cohen, Film Festival Coordinator We celebrated our 25th anniversary with in the San Francisco Bay watershed. about 1500 of our good friends at a free Miriam Limov, Volunteer Coordinator And finally, SYRCL continued to play a key role in further- concert in the park. “SYRCL Soleil” was a Lyndly Martin, Tickets Manager ing the work of community healing by supporting the party, but also a reflection on our history of Tsi-Akim Maidu in the Calling Back the Salmon ceremony. Craig Rohrsen, Technical Director achievements, and an opportunity to glimpse Several hundred community members joined together to Laura Rohrsen, Tech Volunteer Coor. the future of our work. The event came honor the first people of the Yuba, while participating in together because of a dedicated staff, gener- Rich Mead, Sound & Lights Director the “first salmon” ceremony on the banks of the South ous community supporters and a legion of Yuba. Mikail Graham, Music Director hardworking volunteers, including our Board Shawndel Story, Downtown Events of Directors. During the Wild & Scenic weekend, SYRCL will be sharing more details of our successes in building a broad base of Sarah Regan, Filmmaker Liaison This was also a year of unique collaborations. support for restoring the Yuba River—from the headwaters Linda Hempel, Food Manager SYRCL received funding to play a leading on Donner Summit through the Golden Gate. Stop by our role in watershed coordination for the Yuba Terra Nyssa, Film Coordinator displays at the Miners Foundry and at the Activist Center over the next 3 years. We finalized a multi- Susie Sutphin, Workshop & Tour Manager party fisheries agreement that governs water to learn how you can get involved. And if you haven’t Rosalie Adduci, Student Prog. Manager flows for the wild salmon and steelhead of yet, become a member of SYRCL! the lower Yuba River, resolving 15 years of SYRCL Support Staff conflict. Our River Science staff collabora- Jason Rainey, SYRCL Executive Director tively developed study plans that will guide Krista Thomas, Development Director the negotiations for hydropower licenses that impact the Middle and South Yuba Rivers, Jennifer Seim, Derek Hitchcock, key tributaries, and ultimately the salmon ___new ___renewing Gary Reedy, Katrina Schneider, Jen Hemmert habitat on the lower Yuba River. __Annual Membership $40 __RiverBenefactor $600 or $50/month Our citizen-based river monitoring program __River Lover $60 or $5/month __River Guardian $1,000 or $84/month SYRCL Board has evolved to include monitoring and assess- __RiverKeeper $120 or $10/month __Low Income/Student $10 Kim Milligan, John Regan, Roger Hicks, ment of meadow health—this year working Richard Ellers, Coulter Adams, with the Tsi-Akim Maidu tribe, American __RiverSaver $240 or $20/month __Other $___ Elizabeth Soderstrom, Ralph Cutter, Rivers and the Yuba Watershed Institute on a cultural and ecological assessment in Bear Name:______Heidi Hall, Aeron Miller, Michael Ben Ortiz Valley. Street Address:______City:______State:______Zip:______SYRCL announced an agreement with the Phone: ( )______Email:______gravel company Western Aggregates to The Wild & Scenic ___Yes! I would like to receive SYRCL’s e-newsletter & action alerts. convert three miles of riverside lands on the ___Check enclosed. Film Fest Committee: lower Yuba into a conservation easement, ___Please charge my credit card for the full amount. Kathy Dotson, Susie Sutphin, Kim Milligan, with a plan and initial funding to restore ripar- Please send completed form Coulter Adams, Janet Cohen, Krista Thomas, ian habitat that supports juvenile salmon. We ___Please debit my card monthly with the amount checked above. to SYRCL: 216 Main St., view this as the beginning of a longterm effort ___MC ___VISA Card#______Nevada City, CA 95959 Jason Rainey, Roger Hicks, Aeron Miller ?’s 530-265-5961 for the ambitious restoration of the highly Exp:______3-digit code on back______34 All times are subject to change. FRIDAY EVE MINERS FOUNDRY NEVADA THEATRE GREAT HALL STONE HALL ODDFELLOWS 227 BROAD VETS HALL NC ELEMENTARY SPECIAL EVENTS 4PM Opening --- PLEASE NOTE START TIMES BELOW. Receptions --- ON FRIDAY EVE, DOORS AT EACH VENUE OPEN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LIVE MUSIC BEGINS. --- FREE to the 5PM PUBLIC --- 4-7pm at --- 5:30pm Music 5:30pm Music Mowen Solinsky 5:45pm Music Ivan Najera Catherine 5:45pm Music Gallery & Bella --- 6pm Music Lorraine Gervais Scholz 6pm Music Dakota Sid 6pm Music Vita Gallery 6PM Silverwings --- Christine & Rob 6:45-9:15pm 6:30-9:15pm Kelly Fleming See page 9 for 6:45-10pm details. --- Bonner SESSION SESSION 6:30-10pm 7-10pm SESSION --- SESSION 7-10pm SESSION Sponsored by 7-10pm I Met the Walrus SESSION Roadless 6:55 Kim Milligan 7PM SESSION 6:55 Fighting Goliath Historia de un Gimme a Hug --- Islenka 6:57 Artist Reception 6:40 Letrero 6:40 Global Focus - 7:10 --- Homegrown at Nevada City maybe 7:10 Puerto Rico 7:10 Last Frontier Upstream Battle Ghost of Paradise Found Winery 4-6pm --- Revolution 7pm 7:23 8PM The Good Life 7:22 Appalachia 6:45 Conscious 7:28 7:12pm Gorilla in the Alliance 7:15 AK The Hard --- National Wild Ocean 7:48 --- Free to Roam Greenhouse 7:24 Way 7:47 Sacrifice Zone Drowning River --- presentation Keepers of the Burning the Future 7:05 7:23 Climber 8:47 9PM with Rick Deep 8:33 7:34 The Sharp End --- Ridgeway 7:21 Cost of Oil 7:39 Waterlands 7:43 8:49 Attack of the --- Children of the Refugees of the Sea Slugs 8:41 --- Saving Luna Dance Party Amazon 8:42 Blue Planet 8:40 10PM 8:21 One Water 8:50 with --- Garaj Mahal & --- DJ Dragonfly 10pm - 1am --- Miners Foundry 11PM See pg 10. --- Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by SponsoredSponsored by --- Ralph & Dorothy John & Kerri Alison & Alan Ronnie Paul & Richard & Marcie AsylumYabobo/Asylum Down/ --- Judi Funk Sue Ghilotti Hitchcock Timmer Pomatto Jeff Kane Ellers Yabobo 12AM 35 All times are subject to change. SATURDAY MORN & AFT MINERS FOUNDRY NEVADA THEATRE GREAT HALL STONE HALL ODDFELLOWS 227 BROAD VETS HALL NC ELEMENTARY SPECIAL EVENTS 8:30 doors open 8:30am doors open 8:30am --- 9am-3:30pm doors open 9am 9am-4pm doors open 9am doors open 9am doors open 9am 9AM SESSION doors open 9am 9:30am-4pm SESSION --- 9:30am-4pm 9:30am-4pm 9:30am-4pm 9:30am-4pm SESSION Sense of Wonder Free Workshops --- SESSION SESSION SESSION Water Loving Doggies 9:10 SESSION at --- 9:40 Division Street Tyger 9:40 Path of the Horse Patagonian Seed 9:40 Activist Center Don’t Release .. 9:46 The Plight of the 9:10 10AM Wonder Water Web 9:40 Orangutan Winter 9:40 1 & 2 Honeybee 10:04 Foundation 9:45 Papa Tortuga --- 9:49 Renewal 10:17 Lift 10:11 9am-5pm Once Upon a Tide 9:56 Lynx 10:46 9:51 --- Strong Coffee Orphans of Tsavo See pages 12-13 Hey!Something’s 10:05 Darius Goes West 10:27 Woven Ways 9:51 Fury for the for details. --- Gorilla in the ... 10:27 10:33 Sound 11AM Chickens of the Sea Cascade of Light 11:05 Zoologic 10:01 10:37 10:17 11:15 Karearea 10:05 --- Papiroflexia 10:52 American Outrage --- Journey of the Yuba Sacred Place Wolves in Paradise 11:09 Chat with the 10:59 11:53 10:54 --- Riddle in a Bottle Filmmakers 12PM 111:07 11am - 1pm --- at Lefty’s Grill, Dos Banditos, Java Johns, --- Broad Street Bistro, --- doors reopen 12:45 doors reopen 12:45 doors reopen 12:45 doors reopen 12:45 doors reopen 12:45 doors reopen 12:45 doors reopen 12:45 and Cafe Mekka. 1PM See page 9. Papiroflexia Climate Matters Jurassic Journey P is for Papaya The Nuclear HandCut 1:10 When Clouds --- 1:10 1:10 1:10 1:10 Comeback 1:10 A River’s Last Clear 1:10 Artist Reception at --- Broad St. Bistro 4-6pm; Zoologic Losing the Meat the Truth EDump 2:10 Breath 1:42 I Love Trash Cost of Oil Reception --- Yele Haiti 1:16 2:32 4:30-6:30pm Bella Vita Elephants 1:19 1:18 The Last Descent 2PM 1:13pm Crude Substitute White Shark 1:52 Addicted to --- Schooling the The Price of Eating Alaska 2:31 Wine Stroll & Cafe 1:50 Sand Dancer Plastic --- World 1:18 Sugar 1:23 2:31 2:40 Booksignings Flow 2:17 Quicksilver 2:49 --- 4-6pm. See page 9 So Right, So Justicia Now Legacy 2:43 The Cost of Oil for locations 3PM Smart 2:13 3:00 AWARDS 2:54 Awards Ceremony ---- Scarred Lands CEREMONY 2:48 4:15pm, Stone Hall --- Brower Youth 4:15 Sponsored by ---- Awards 3:36 Lowell & Diane 4PM Robertson 36 SATURDAY EVE MINERS FOUNDRY NEVADA THEATRE GREAT HALL STONE HALL ODDFELLOWS 227 BROAD VETS HALL NC ELEMENTARY SPECIAL EVENTS

6PM doors open 6:15pm --- doors open 6:30pm doors open 6:30pm doors open 6:30pm doors open 6:30pm doors open 6:30pm doors open 6:30pm --- 6:45-10pm SESSION --- 7-10pm 7-10pm 7-10pm 7-10pm 7-10pm 7-10pm 7PM SESSION SESSION SESSION SESSION SESSION SESSION Invisible 6:55 --- Run, Rogue, Run Historia de un Crossroads at the Global Focus Placenta 7:10 Global Focus Under Our Skin --- 7:10 Letrero 7:10 Columbia 7:10 Ecuador 7:10 Mozambique 7:10 Goldfish 7:12 8:03 --- Hardrock Mining Free Range The Water Front Who’s Got the Shikashika 7:185 8PM Papa Tortuga 7:22 Studios 7:31 Power 7:18 --- 7:25 3 Peaks 3 Weeks Compilation & --- Red Gold 7:32 This Brave Nation Global Focus 7:25 Award 7:15 Stop Aerial 7:54 Russia 8:20 --- Power Paths Hunting 7:570 Surfwise March Point 7:36 9PM 8:47 Brave New West Garbage Warrior 8:27 Saving Luna --- The Linguists 8:19 8:26 8:05 --- 8:36 --- 10PM Gala Event --- 10pm-12am --- at the --- Nevada City 11PM Winery --- See page 9 for --- details. --- 12AM Sponsored by YubaDocs Sponsored by Urgent Care Al deVico, Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Charlie Aron, Michael & Alicia Shawn Melanie Wellner Peter Van Zant & The Lotus Robert Berman, & Funk Garvey & Rod Byers Mary De Witt Foudation Jane Ginsburg 37 SUNDAY MINERS FOUNDRY NEVADA THEATRE GREAT HALL STONE HALL ODDFELLOWS 227 BROAD VETS HALL 9AM doors open 9am doors open 9am doors open 9am doors open 9am doors open 9am doors open 9am ------9:30-5pm 9:30-5pm --- 9:30-4pm 9:30-5pm 9:30-5pm 9:30-5pm SESSION SESSION 10AM SESSION SESSION SESSION SESSION --- I Met the Walrus 9:40 Placenta 9:40 Goldfish 9:40 Fighting Goliath 9:40 The Refugees of the Western Lands 9:40 --- Blue Planet 9:40 Punuy Wambra 9:49 Chickens of the Sea 9:45 maybe Hose 9:53 The World According to --- Stop Aerial Hunting 10:04 9:42 Orphans of Tsavo 10:06 Monsanto 10:12 The Price of Sugar 11AM Mongolian Marmots Shikashika 10:20 9:55 10:34 --- Lynx 9:44 Journey of the Yuba 10:16 Nine Winters Old 10:30 Super Recycle Girl --- March Point 10:02 A River’s Last Breath 10:24 The Great Vacation Squeeze 10:18 11:34 --- One Water 10:34 12PM Garbage Warrior 10:27 Power Paths 11:00 Heather & Goliath 11:48 ------doors reopen 12:45pm doors reopen 12:45pm doors reopen 12:45pm doors reopen 12:45pm doors reopen 12:45pm doors reopen 12:45pm 1PM --- The Good Life 1:10 Red Gold 1:10 Conscious Alliance Sand Dancer maybe 1:10 Hose 1:10 1:10 1:10 --- Once Upon a Tide Children of the Historia de un Letrero The Last Frontier --- 1:15 Amazon Invisible The Linguists 1:12 1:23 2PM 2:05 1:16 1:15 The Last Descent --- Wild Ocean 1:22 So Right, So Smart American Outrage Schooling the World 1:17 1:42 --- Young Filmmakers Upstream Battle 3:17 2:20 2:20 Climber 2:32 --- Presentation Under Our Skin 3PM 2:07 Burning the Future Brave New West 2:56 The Sharp End 3:31 3:10 2:34 --- Saving Luna 2:37 --- 3 Peaks 3 Weeks --- 3:37 4PM ------Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by --- Susan Snider Mike & Margaret Kathie Bain & Mark & Jennifer Don & Madeleine 5PM & Michael Percy Bloebaum Andy Norrell Switzer Simborg 38 MAP

39 You can recycle more than you think

To find out which Patagonia clothes are recyclable through our Common Threads Recycling Program, visit patagonia.com/recycle, or call 800-638-6464.