14TH ANNUAL MARCH 16 – 26, 2006 100 documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental and children’s films Most screenings include discussion and are FREE Special Pre-Festival Event on February 6 WWW.DCENVIRONMENTALFILMFEST.ORG Phone: 202.342.2564 Fax: 202.789.0777 Email: [email protected] STAFF WELCOME to the 14th Annual Artistic Director & Founder: Flo Stone Environmental Film Festival Managing Director: Helen Strong The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery – Associate Director: not over nature but of ourselves. Annie Kaempfer — Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring Associate Director & Children's Program: Coinciding with the arrival of spring in the nation’s capital, the 2006 Environmental Film Festival Mary McCracken celebrates the beauty and significance of our environment while promoting advocacy for its Associate Director: responsible stewardship. Whether we recognize it or not, environment is pervasive and plays a Georgina Owen central role in our daily lives, health and future. Program Assistant: Andy Fernandez Collaborating with over 50 local, national and international organizations, the Festival presents Festival Interns: Katherine Collins 100 outstanding films from around the world for 11 days in March. From 23 countries, the films Maribel Guevara include 45 premieres and promise to expand and challenge our understanding of life on earth. David Van Dusen Dedicated to diversity, these environmental screenings and discussions reflect the astonishing Development Consultant: variety of our planet. Through the opportunity to experience documentaries, features, animation, Janet S. Curtis archival and children’s films, we encourage audiences to explore our world. Website: Free Range Graphics At the 2006 Festival, 46 filmmakers will be present to speak about their work. The legendary Shaw Thacher Mary McCracken Terrence Malick has been invited to a retrospective of all four of his extraordinary films at the AFI/Silver Theatre. Duma, Carroll Ballard’s striking new film about a boy and a cheetah will Planning: Marc Norman screen at the Avalon Theatre. Adrian Cowell, who has chronicled the destruction of the Amazon Bridget Tuthill forest for decades, premieres his new film, The Jungle Beat, at the National Geographic. Gretchen Berland, a young filmmaker/medical doctor who was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award in ADVISORY COMMITTEE 2004, shows Rolling, self-portraits by three individuals in wheel chairs, at the National Museum Co-Chairs: of American History. At the Austrian Embassy, director Hubert Sauper presents his wrenching Celia Crawford & documentary, Darwin’s Nightmare, the winner of every festival it has entered. Nelse Greenway; Donald Dakin, Alice Day, Les Blank returns to the Festival to show an enlightening work-in-progress, The Tea Film, Lincoln Day, Anne Emmet, co-directed by Gina Leibrecht, at the National Geographic Society. A final event with the Embassy Mark Epstein, Judith Falk, of France honors Jacques Perrin at the National Museum of Natural History. His distinguished Grace Guggenheim, Marion career as an actor, film producer and director is currently dedicated to the creation of exceptional Guggenheim, Susan Kent, feature films about the natural world, including Winged Migration. Polly Krakora, Charlie Lord, Gay Lord, Chris Palmer, Peggy Parsons, Nora Pouillon, We hope you join us to experience the great variety of environmental films the Festival offers. Deborah Rothberg, Edith For as Rachel Carson wrote in her masterful book The Sense of Wonder: “If facts are the seeds Schafer, Ev Shorey, Joan that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and impressions of the senses are the Shorey, Roger Stone, Ellie fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.” Trowbridge, Georgie Warner, 4 Elsa Williams, Terry Williams, 0 0 2 , Catherine Wyler r a P l e v e L , n Program design by o s d r Linda Rapp Design a h c i R Logo by Ben Hillman & Co. g e r G Printed by ECOPRINT on y s e t 100% recycled, postconsumer r u o waste, process chlorine free C paper. 2 DISCOVER HETCH HETCHY Special Pre-Festival Screening n o m d r Monday a H y n o T y February 6 s e t r u o 10:30 a.m. C FREE Warner Theatre 513 13th St., NW Washington, DC 20004 (corner of 13th & E Sts., NW) Metro: Metro Center (12th & F Sts., NW exit) To register student groups, please contact Annie Kaempfer at 202-342-2564 or [email protected] i n o z n a r F THE BOYS OF BARAKA c r a M (United States/Kenya, 2005, 84 min.) y s e t r u o “Perhaps the most powerful and important documentary I have ever seen.” C — Eli Kooris, Austin Cronicle Discussion with filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady will follow the screening. n o This stunning coming-of-age story confronts the stark statistic that 76 percent of black males in m d r a Baltimore don’t graduate from high school. Following a group of “at risk” 12-year-old boys from H y n o the tough, inner-city streets of Baltimore who leave home to attend the 7th and 8th grades at T y s e Baraka, an experimental boarding school located in Kenya, this film embarks on an emotionally t r u o explosive and transformative journey shot over three years. Faced with a strict academic and C disciplinary program as well as with the freedom to be normal teenage boys, they endure homesickness, anger, fear and culture shock to shed their disruptive, misunderstood and academically disinterested selves. The school teaches them about reconciliation and teamwork, finds the achievers buried within and gives them hope. They also come to understand that Baraka n o m is the only thing standing between them and drug dealing, addiction, academic failure d r a H or worse. Through extensive time with the boys in Baltimore and Africa, the filmmakers capture y n o the kids’ amazing experiences and how they fare when they are forced to return to the difficult T y s e t realities of their city. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady and produced by Loki Films. r u o C Best Documentary, Atlanta Film Festival and Newport International Film Festival. Audience Award, SILVERDOCS. Pre-release screening courtesy of ThinkFilm. Special thanks to the Charles E. Smith Company, the Kaempfer Company, Vornado Realty and the Warner Theatre. 3 Schedule of Events *Washington, D.C., United States and World Premieres Look for the Tadpole for Family and Children’s Films Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday March 16 March 17 March 18 March 19 Pages 8 – 10 Pages 10 – 11 Pages 12 – 15 Pages 16 – 19 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 10:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. MARTIN LUTHER KING, NATIONAL MUSEUM AVALON THEATRE NATIONAL MUSEUM NATIONAL GALLERY JR. MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY Fly Away Home OF AMERICAN HISTORY OF ART Worlds Big and Small Outside the Classroom: A Fight to the Finish: March of the Weston Woods/ Science Education in 11:00 a.m. Stories of Polio Penguins Scholastic Animations the Environment* AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Stars! Stars! Stars!* The Anacostia — EarthEcho International 3:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. Restoring the People’s Environmental Student AFI SILVER THEATRE NATIONAL MUSEUM Waiting for Wings* OF AFRICAN ART River Short Film Festival Terrence Malick In the Small, Small Retrospective Witches in Exile* Pond* 12:00 noon 1:00 p.m. Badlands Diary of a Worm* WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL BUILDING 1:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM 4:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. CENTER FOR SCHOLARS MUSEUM Tall: The American NATIONAL MUSEUM NATIONAL MUSEUM A Presentation by Skyscraper and Louis OF AMERICAN HISTORY The Museum on the OF NATURAL HISTORY Dr. David Suzuki Sullivan Mountain On Solid Ground: The Honoring Jorge Ruiz The Green Revolution River Rats of Arkansas First Person Singular: Vuelve Sebastiana* 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in Cuba* A Discussion of a Film I.M. Pei NATIONAL MUSEUM in Progress 6:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. OF NATURAL HISTORY 1:30 p.m. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AMERICAN Selections from 2005 7:00 p.m. AFI SILVER THEATRE Buyer, Be Fair: The ASSOCIATION FOR MOUNTAINFILM in CAPITOL HILL ARTS Terrence Malick Promise of Product THE ADVANCEMENT Telluride WORKSHOP Retrospective Certification* OF SCIENCE They are Playing Over Films on the Hill Natural Resources The Thin Red Line the Towers (I Sona Su The Covered Wagon 6:30 p.m. Defense Council La Torns)* 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EMBASSY OF Green, Green Water 7:30 p.m. AUSTRALIA Birthday Boy* S. DILLON RIPLEY AFI SILVER THEATRE CENTER Cane Toads: An 8:00 p.m. Surfers Healing* Terrence Malick The Smithsonian Unnatural History EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA Water: A Clear Retrospective Associates Darwin’s Nightmare Solution* 7:30 p.m. The New World Hollywood and the Mini Cine Tupy* NATIONAL Environment ZOOLOGICAL PARK Ancient Marks An Afternoon with Max Alvarez Tigers of the Emerald Chernobyl Legacy* Forest* My Head (Hodet Mitt)* 2:00 p.m. Herders’ Calling* NATIONAL MUSEUM 8:00 p.m. OF AMERICAN HISTORY EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA Home Game* The Spirit of Yosemite Darwin’s Nightmare Flying Over Everest* Discover Hetch Hetchy* s e m i m l i D F f k t o y n s r i h e u h f t c r T o n t a e y o s M C h e t y P h r / s t . u e e i p t o t r r C n u o e o C w C T m l i y F s e x t r o u F o C A FIGHT TO THE FINISH: STORIES OF POLIO GENESIS THE THIN RED LINE 4 *Washington, D.C., United States and World Premieres Look for the Tadpole for Family and Children’s Films Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday March 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 Pages 19 – 20 Pages 21 – 23 Pages 23 – 25 Pages 25 – 27 4:30 p.m.