FOUNDER Flo Stone WELCOME TO THE STAFF TH Executive Director 26 ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL! Maryanne Culpepper Managing Director This has been a year of incredible activism. From Amsterdam to Antarctica, Kansas to Kenya, Christopher Head people are marching, making their voices heard, and putting themselves in harm’s way to protect Director of Programming our planet and all that lives upon it. And talented lmmakers are telling their stories, inspiring our Brad Forder timely theme, ‘Stories from the Frontlines.’ Welcome to the 26th Environmental Film Festival in the Director of Development Nation’s Capital! Our lineup of lms and speakers is stronger than ever. Jessie Brinkley Special Events Lori Dynan We kick o with a big opening night lm, The Last Animals, which gets us up close with rangers as Development Manager they wage a dangerous war on poachers who are driving some of the planet’s most iconic animals – rhinos and Heidi Hermisson elephants – to the brink of extinction. The closing night takes us on an investigative journey with elite Special Forces Programming Manager trainer James Wilks as he busts the myth of meat as a staple protein in the human diet in The Game Changers. Be Samantha Plakun sure to stay for receptions after both events and meet the lmmakers. Festival Coordinator Monica Schorn In between are 120 more lms sure to re your interest and inspire you to get involved. Anote’s Ark documents the Digital Media journey of Kiribati President Anote Tong to help his countrymen as their homeland is literally snatched away by rising Saaret Yoseph; Jacob Crawford seas. Point of No Return takes wing in a solar-powered plane as two pilots attempt to be the rst to circumnavigate Director of Marketing PR Collaborative the globe. Photographer Neil Rettig tracks down a rare Bird of Prey, the Philippine Eagle – one of only 800 remaining. Volunteer Managers Jon Gann; Jim Taglauer Most screenings are followed by our signature audience Q&A with the lmmaker and content experts. Our 2018 Festival Interns Environmental Champion Dr. Sylvia Earle, an ocean scientist, explorer, and advocate extraordinaire joins us with a Bella Fix; Kate Leone; Madeline Burbridge slate of short ocean lms from around the world. We’re also featuring a slate of VR (virtual reality) experiences that Festival Guide Editor will take you diving on amazing coral reefs and trekking in the boots of rangers. And we’re adding in lots of encore Monica Lee Bellais screenings of our lms, including Encore Sunday, March 25th.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS For the latest updated info, be sure to check our website: dce.org. Thanks to all our volunteers, sponsors, donors Susan Vitka, Chair and venue partners. We literally couldn’t do it without you! Max Williamson, Vice Chair John van D. Lewis, Treasurer Elizabeth Berry, Secretary Join us for the Festival. Guaranteed to get you talking!

Ferzina Banaji; Barbara L. Franklin; Caroline Gabel; Maryanne Culpepper, Executive Director Jennifer Johnson; Annie Kaempfer; Dan M. Martin; Gregory McGruder; Josie Merck; Liz Norton; Peter O’Brien; Nora Pouillon; Jacob Scherr; E. William Stetson, III; Flo Stone; Catherine Wyler DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST OR CAUSE THAT YOU CARE ABOUT? TABLE OF CONTENTS Ex Ocio: Maryanne Culpepper We’ve got you covered. Here are some incredible films about topics: Trustees Emerita: Marion Guggenheim; Anita Herrick; Festival Welcome ...... 2 Joan D. Murray; Dane A. Nichols STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES FOOD WASTED! THE STORY OF FOOD THE LAST ANIMALS, CHASING THE WASTE, EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC, THE Opening & Closing Nights; ADVISORY COUNCIL THUNDER, WATER WARRIORS, CHOCOLATE CASE Awards Screenings ...... 3 RANGER AND LEOPARD, ATOMIC Chair: Margaret Parsons Feature Films ...... 4-15 Wendy Benchley; Katie Carpenter; Harriett Crosby; HOMEFRONT WILDLIFE PARIS: A WILD STORY, Sarah Davidson; Alice Day; Lincoln Day; UNTAMED ROMANIA, TATRA Pocket Guide ...... 11-14 Diana Lady Dougan; Sarah duPont; Anne Emmet; OCEANS THE LAST ANIMALS, MOUNTAINS - LIFE ON THE EDGE Mark Epstein; Nelse Greenway; Grace Guggenheim; CHASING THE THUNDER, WATER Calendar ...... 14-15 Laurence Hausman; Joseph Krakora; WARRIORS, RANGER AND LEOPARD, CLIMATE CONNECTIONS Elizabeth Kucinich; Mary McCracken; Helen McNeill; Venue Index ...... 16 ATOMIC HOMEFRONT ANOTE’S ARK, THANK YOU FOR THE Sally Meadows; Gouri Mirpuri; Chris Palmer; Feature Films, Con’t . . . . .17-18 Gary Rahl; Susan Rappaport; Deborah Rothberg; RAIN, LITTLE YELLOW BOOTS Edith Schafer; Joan Shorey; Jonathan Steffert; BIRDS ALBATROSS, BIRD OF PREY, Short Film Programs . . . .16-20 Roger D. 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income and essential to their families having carved out state and federal agencies to uncover the truth about a rare space of respect for themselves by diving in the the extent of the contamination and are ghting to keep Pacic Ocean with no aid from air tanks for underwater their families safe. Director: Rebecca Cammisa F breathing. Director: Cláudia Varejão F Sat, Mar 24, 2 PM $10 Q&A Rebecca Cammisa Fri, Mar 16, 6:30 pm FREE No Reservations Required Carnegie Institution for Science Japan Information & Culture Center DC PREMIERE BACKYARD WILDERNESS (IMAX) ANOTE’S ARK (USA, 2018, 45 min.) (Canada, 2018, 77 min.) Backyard Wilderness reveals that nature is much closer The Republic of Kiribati will be swallowed by the Pacic than we think. Following the seasons in one backyard, Ocean within decades. Anote Tong, Kiribati’s President, we are transported inside dens and nests and in ponds races to protect his island home set against the backdrop that uncover the creatures within. We are reminded of international climate negotiations and the ght to that Wi-Fi isn’t the only connection that matters and A BEAUTIFUL STAR recognize climate displacement as an urgent human that in ordinary places, we can discover extraordinary (Japan, 2017, 127 min.) rights issue. Director: Matthieu Rytz things – if we just step outside. A Beautiful Star portrays a family on Earth who comes Fri, Mar 16, 7 PM $10 Directors: Susan Todd F and Andrew Young to believe that they are actually from other planets. They Q&A Anote Tong, President The Republic of Kiribati Sat, Mar 17, 12 pm Tickets Required; Prices Vary try to save the endangered planet Earth, but things get National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE Sneak Peek/Preview Event crazy on the way. Director: Dailachi Yoshida Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Sun, Mar 18, 2 PM FREE No Reservations Required Freer Gallery of Art DC PREMIERE BEARTREK (USA, 2016, 86 min.) ALBATROSS A conservation story wrapped in an adventure with (USA, 2017, 98 min.) renowned biologist Chris Morgan on an epic and Albatross is a compelling visual journey into the heart entertaining journey to nd the world’s most elusive and of a gut-wrenching environmental tragedy. On one of endangered bears. Discover the threats facing them in the the most remote islands on Earth, tens of thousands of wild, and meet the dedicated people racing to save them albatross chicks lie dead on the ground, their bodies from extinction, and join the campaign to protect bears and lled with plastic. The lm crew witnessed cycles of their habitat. Directors: Chris Morgan and Joe Pontecorvo birth, life, and death of these magnicent creatures as Sun, Mar 18, 2 pm $10 a multi-layered metaphor for our times. National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE Director: Chris Jordan Sat, Mar 24, 4 PM FREE ATLANTIC SALMON – LOST AT SEA Q&A www.dceff.org for more details (USA/Ireland, 2017, 56 min.) National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE Co-Presentation with Blue Ocean Film Festival Despite conservation eorts worldwide, populations continue to fall for Atlantic Salmon. For the rst time, using the latest DNA technology, scientists can track the salmon from the rivers, through the estuaries, and into the vast North Atlantic and back again, in hopes of nding an answer before it is too late. Narrated by Gabriel Byrne. Director: Deirdre Brennan F Mon, Mar 19, 7 PM $10 Q&A www.dceff.org for more details Naval Heritage Center DC PREMIERE BENDING THE ARC ATOMIC HOMEFRONT (USA, 2016, 102 min.) (USA, 2017, 96 min.) Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Atomic Homefront reveals St. Louis, Missouri’s past as Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White began a a uranium-processing center for the atomic bomb and movement in the 1980s in a rural Haitian village that grew AMA-SAN the governmental and corporate negligence that led to into a global health battle. Together we can change the (Portugal, 2016, 112 min.) the illegal dumping of Manhattan Project radioactive trajectory of the world, bending the arc of the universe For more than 2000 years the Ama-San dived in Japan. waste throughout North County neighborhoods. The forever. Directors: Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos Bound by sisterhood, women are the primary source of lm is a case study of how citizens are confronting Sat, Mar 17, 2 pm $10 Naval Heritage Center

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BIRD OF PREY CACÚ: UN CAMBIO POR LA VIDA CHASING THE THUNDER (USA, 2017, 95 min.) (Dominican Republic, 2017, 79 min.) (USA, 2018, 98 min.) A selection from the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Screening presented with the Global Foundation Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation Fewer than 800 Philippine Eagles exist in the world and for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and the A thrilling high seas adventure feature documentary where found only in the Philippines. Today the future of these Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) two marine conservation captains from Sea Shepherd go iconic raptors, and of an untold number of other species Five shermen from Manresa, a poor neighborhood on a hundred day chase of the illegal poacher and pirate is tied to the fate of the Philippines’ last fragments of old- to the West of Santo Domingo’s Distrito Marine shing vessel, The Thunder. growth forest. Bird of Prey explores the vanishing world biologist Omar Shamir Reynoso documented Directors: Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin of the Great Philippine Eagle to save it from extinction. national transitioned from sea turtle nest predators to Fri, Mar 16, 7 pm $10 Q&A Katie Carpenter (producer), Director: Eric Liner conservationists of the species over four years. The Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd, founder), Sun, Mar 18, 7 pm $10 documentary teaches viewers about the biology of Peter Hammarstedt (Sea Shepherd, Captain) Q&A Eric Liner, John Bowman and Neil Rettig sea turtles that nest in the Dominican Republic, and Carnegie Institution for Science DC PREMIERE National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE shows rsthand the poverty and needs of a vulnerable neighborhood in Greater Santo Domingo. CITY OF THE SUN Director: Marvin del Cid US PREMIERE (Georgia, 2017, 100 min.) A former Soviet architectural and technological Preceded by: achievement is now a semi-abandoned mining town of ARISTOLOCHIAS OF HAITI Chiatura. It once produced 50% of the world’s manganese (Dominican Republic, 2018, 10 min.) employed up to 10,000 workers. Today, with drastically Screening presented with the Global Foundation reduced manganese production, dangerous working for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and the conditions, and little prospect for any improvement, it is Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) well on its way to becoming a ghost town. Eladio Fernandez, Dominican conservation Director: Rati Oneli photographer from the iLCP, takes us to Haiti on an Sat, Mar 17, 2 pm FREE expedition to nd a new species of Aristolochia (pipe The National Gallery of Art DC PREMIERE vine) and another that had not been seen for 90 years. Director: Eladio Fernandez COYOTE: THE MIKE PLANT STORY Mon, Mar 19, 7 pm $10 (USA, 2017, 105 min.) E Street Cinema US PREMIERE Chronically underfunded and undermanned, sailor Mike Plant’s thirst for adventure and the fearless belief in his BLUE CHASING CORAL dreams drive him to become an American hero of the sea. (Australia, 2017, 75 min.) (USA, 2017, 93 min.) The lm follows Plant’s daring spirit as he challenges both Co-Presentation with Blue Ocean Film Festival Co-Presentation with Blue Ocean Film Festival Mother Nature, around the world alone on a sailboat, and By 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than sh. Blue Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an French dominance in the sport. is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and Director: Thomas Simmons a critical moment in time when the marine world is on a scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover www.dceff.org for screening details DC PREMIERE precipice. Director: Karina Holden F why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world. Tues, Mar 20, 7 pm $10 Director: Jeff Orlowski DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF Naval Heritage Center DC PREMIERE Thurs, Mar 22, 7 pm FREE Reservations Required FRED BECKEY Naval Heritage Center (USA, 2017, 96 min.)

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Fred Beckey is the legendary American “Dirtbag” personal stories hidden behind the smoke. Fire Chasers mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones is a Netix Original Documentary produced by Appian around campres. This rebel climber’s pioneering ascents Way, Stone Village Television, and Original Productions. and lifestyle form an iconic legacy that continues to inspire Episodes 1 & 2. Episodes 1 & 2. Director: Julian T. Pinder generations. Director: Dave O’Leske Sun, Mar 18, 2 pm $10 Naval Heritage Center Sun, Mar 18, 2 pm $10 E Street Cinema DC PREMIERE DC PREMIERE FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF N PIET OUDOLF MA

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the industry’s evangelists. Directors: Sam Wainwright Douglas, Paul Lovelace, and Jessica Wolfson F Sat, Mar 17, 2 PM $10 E Street Cinema DC PREMIERE CK WI LA Feature length documentary about the government’s N VA ban on Florida’s iconic airboats in much of the Everglade largest eort to repair a damaged ecosystem, there JANE is a vast river of grass that has been ravaged by more (USA, 2017, 90 min.) than a century of development, pollution, and other Presented by Bank of America environmental degradation. Director: David Abel HUMAN FLOW Drawing from over 100 hours of never-before-seen Tues, Mar 20, 7 PM $10 Q&A David Abel (Germany, 2017, 145 min.) footage in the lm library at the National Geographic E Street Cinema DC PREMIERE Over 65 million people around the world have Society, is 50 years of archival footage, which been forced from their homes to escape famine, tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose climate change, and war in the most horric human chimpanzee research challenged the male-dominated displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic scientic consensus of her time and revolutionized lm journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai our understanding of the natural world. Set to a rich Weiwei, gives powerful visual expression to this massive orchestral score from legendary composer Philip Glass, human migration. The documentary elucidates both the the lm oers an unprecedented, intimate portrait a staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly trailblazer who deed the odds to become one of the personal human impact. Director: Ai Weiwei world’s most admired conservationists. Sat, Mar 17, 2 PM FREE Reservations Required Director: Brett Morgen Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Mon, Mar 19, 7 PM $10 Q&A National Geographic Society IN THE HILLS AND HOLLOWS (USA, 2017, 55 min.) LAWS OF THE LIZARD Co-presented with the AMERICAN CONSERVATION (USA, 2018, 44 min.) FILM FESTIVAL (ACFF) Co-Presentation with the Smithsonian National Museum HIGH TIDE IN DORCHESTER Take an intimate look at the lives of several West Virginia of National History (USA, 2017, 57 min.) residents in the middle a massive natural gas boom and A thirty-year quest to discover nature’s rulebook and This documentary aims to foster a conversation about how this industry forever changes their quality and way an unassuming creature: a six-inch lizard called an climate change and related impacts of sea level rise and of life. The lm also explores the lives of residents who anole that might hold the key to understanding the past, erosion, and leverage that conversation into action. have left their home and the place they love, as a result present, and future of life on Earth. Directors: Tom Horton, Dave Harp and of the growth and development of the fracking industry. Directors: Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin Sandy Cannon-Brown F Director: Keely Kernan F Sat, Mar 24, 3 pm FREE Reservations Required Q&A Thurs, Mar 22, 6:30 PM FREE Reservations Required Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM $10 Q&A Keely Kernan Smithsonian’s National Zoo WORLD PREMIERE Q&A Tom Horton and Dave Harp Carnegie Institution for Science DC PREMIERE National Museum of Women in the Arts LITTLE YELLOW BOOTS WORLD PREMIERE INTO THE AMAZON (Finland, 2017, 95 min.) (USA, 2018, 100 min.) A cinematic letter to a future great-grandchild weaves HOT GREASE This is the remarkable journey taken by President together past, present and future into a beautiful, (USA, 2017, 74 min.) Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer moving and hopeful documentary lm about the power Set in Houston, Texas, the energy capital of the world Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American of each of us to make a dierence in the world. is the surprising story of how kitchen grease is opening rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Director: John Webster a new green energy frontier. It is a modern-day gold Amazon in 1914. Director: John Maggio Tues, Mar 20, 7 PM FREE Reservations Required rush that could yield billions of dollars in prots for www.dceff.org for screening details DC PREMIERE Embassy of Finland US PREMIERE

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and the price of his dreams. Director: Emmanuel Gras be considered one of the most clever and complex Fri, Mar 16, 7 pm FREE Reservations Required creatures on the planet. They have self-awareness, can Embassy of France co-operate and pass on information, and adapt to solve DC PREMIERE problems in ways we never knew. Directors: Emre Izat and Geoff Luck Sun, Mar 18, 3 PM FREE Reservations Required Q&A Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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In the summer of 1964, footage of Jacques Cousteau’s NC attempt to balance his family life, his hunger for VI adventure among the earth’s oceans, and his desire to MARCH OF THE PENGUINS 2: bring the magic of undersea life into homes worldwide. THE NEXT STEP Director: Jérôme Salle (France, 2017, 85 min.) Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM $10 Naval Heritage Center After two months of shooting in unique conditions in Antarctica last winter, Luc Jacquet returns with a new MOUNTAIN LOVE & BANANAS lm shot mostly in 4K, with unseen submarine and (Australia, 2017, 74 min.) (USA, 2018, 76 min.) droneshots. This new story sees a young penguin about From Antarctica to Hawaii a cinematic and musical Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers, led by to embark on his rst journey, following the mysterious collaboration between acclaimed director Jennifer world-renowned elephant conversationalist Lek Chailert, call that compels every penguin, when winter falls, to set Peedom (Sherpa) and the Australian Chamber embark on a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to out for an unknown destination. Director: Luc Jacquet Orchestra (ACO), one of the greatest chamber rescue a captive Asian elephant from a trekking camp Sat, Mar 17, 7 PM $10 National Geographic Society orchestras in the world. Mountain looks at the and set her free. Love & Bananas will hopefully provide a US PREMIERE troubled and triumphant history of our timeless solution to keeping this species alive. fascination with mountains a juxtaposition of Director: Ashley Bell F MEGASTRUCTURES: GARDENS BY image and music to explore the powerful force that Fri, Mar 16, 7 pm $10 THE BAY mountains hold over the imagination of so many. Naval Heritage Center WORLD PREMIERE (Netherlands, 2011, 50 min.) Director: Jennifer Peedom F Gardens by the Bay is an ambitious project set to Sat, Mar 17, 4 PM $10 National Geographic Society transform Singapore into one of the greenest cities on earth. A at piece of reclaimed land was transformed Preceded by: into Singapore’s largest park, challenging not only the THE LAST HONEY HUNTER designers, but also engineers who must create a raft of (USA, 2017, 36 min.) new green technologies. Produced by Singapore-based One man from the Kulung culture harvests psychotropic Beach House Pictures for National Geographic Society. honey that is guarded by capricious spirits and the Director: Donovan Chan world’s largest honeybees. Director: Ben Knight Tues, Mar 20, 7 PM FREE Reservations Required Embassy of Singapore NO MAN’S LAND (USA, 2017. 80 min.) MIND OF A GIANT On January 2, 2016, armed protestors led by the militant (Netherlands, 2016, 50 min.) Ammon Bundy occupied the headquarters Malheur MAKALA Co-Presentation with the Smithsonian National Museum National Wildlife Refuge in Southeastern Oregon (France, 2017, 97 min.) of National History to challenge the US Government’s right to manage A young man from a village in the Congo hopes to oer Revolutionary new research reveals what it is like to public land. The FBI and the Oregon State Police took his family a better future. His only resources are his two be an elephant. As scientists struggle to count Africa’s Bundy into custody on January 26, 2016, the stando hands, the surrounding bush, and an iron will. When he elephants, they discover intriguing new behavior. In continued for another two weeks as a small group sets out on an exhausting, perilous journey to sell the order to survive their current crisis, the elephants are continued. No Man’s Land is story of those on the inside fruit of his labor, he discovers the true value of his eorts learning. We are discovering that elephants must of this militia movement, attempting to uncover what

8 TICKETS & DAILY UPDATES AT DCEFF.ORG FEATURE FILMS draws some Americans to the edge of revolution. Baltimore; it’s always been a people problem. Director: David Garrett Byars Director: Theo Anthony Fri, Mar 16, 7 PM $10 Q&A David Byars Sun, Mar 18, 2 PM FREE Hirshhorn Museum E Street Cinema DC PREMIERE RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE (USA, 2017, 71 min.) After decades of hurricanes and oil spills, Louisiana sherman Thomas Gonzales faces a new threat – hordes of monstrous twenty-pound swamp rats know as nutria. These invasive South American rodents have unusual orange teeth and a voracious appetite; they their team’s spirits. A remarkable psychological drama eat up the coastal wetlands that protect the Delacroix unfolds, as they face gut-wrenching decisions and Island from hurricanes. Thomas and a pack of lively grapple with fear, conict, and the unknown. bounty hunters are hell-bent on saving Louisiana before Directors: Noel Dockstader and Quinn Kanaly F it dissolves beneath their feet. Directors: Quinn Costello, Fri, Mar 23, 7 PM $10 Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer Q&A Noel Dockstader and Quinn Kanaly Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM $10 National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE Q&A Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer E Street Cinema PARIS: A WILD STORY DC PREMIERE (France, 2016, 90 min.) Paris: A Wild Story relates the astonishing destinies of SILAS creatures that stroll through town in search of food, love (Canada/Kenya/South Africa, 2017, 80 min.) and adventures while humans sleep, travel, and work Winner: William W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers Award in Paris. Paris is known throughout the world for the Liberian activist, Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader, beauty of its architecture and the wealth of its heritage, ghting to crush corruption and environmental and there are 500,000 trees and 2,900 wild species of destruction in the country he loves. Silas is a global fauna and ora that inhabit Paris. Nature overows with tale that warns of the power of politics and celebrates the fascinating and moving stories of wild species that the power of individuals to ght back. One man’s battle dwell amongst Paris. Director: Frédéric Fougea gains momentum and emboldens communities to raise Tues, Mar 20, 7 PM FREE Reservations Required their sts and smartphones, seize control of their lands Embassy of France DC PREMIERE and protect their environment. It is a new generation of resistance. Directors: Hawa EssumanF and Anjali Nayar F PLANET POWER Thurs, Mar 22, 7 PM $10 (France, 2018, 40 min.) RANGER AND LEOPARD Q&A Anjali Nayar F and Silas Siakor This is a story of pioneers, scientists and inventors, (Iran, 2017, 53 min.) National Geographic Society one that began 200 years ago, driven by innovation. A selection from the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival DC PREMIERE Electricity is also the energy of our future as long as it Halvani’, a dedicated ranger, hears about the presence is produced in a cleaner and more sustainable way. of a Persian Leopard in an area under his protection in TATRA MOUNTAINS–LIFE ON THE EDGE Thanks to clean technologies, the greatest forces of Isfahan, Iran. Nobody has spotted any Persian Leopard (Slovakia, 2018, 51 min.) nature can help make our planet cooler and our future there for about forty years, Halvani’ suspects that there Co-Presented in partnership with EKOTOP Film better. Directors: Pascal Vuong and Ronan Chapalain are traces of Persian Leopard and is on a quest to nd Festival and with the support of the Trust for Mutual Fri, Mar 23, 12 PM FREE Reservations Required them. Directors: Fathollah Amiri and Nima Asgari Understanding. National Museum of American History Sun, Mar 18, 4 PM $10 The Tatra Mountains loom far above the clouds – the National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE smallest high mountain range on earth. Some species POINT OF NO RETURN have thrived here since the ice age: chamois are well (USA, 2017, 95 min.) RAT FILM equipped for the harsh climate. Marmots, meanwhile, Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation (USA, 2016, 82 min.) spend more than half the year asleep. Red deer and Two Swiss pilots journey as they make an historic Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose bears repopulated the region after the end of the ice attempt to circumnavigate the globe in an airplane our boundaries of separation, but also make homes age. Since then, they’ve tried to master the various fueled exclusively by sunlight to prove the potential in them. Rat Film is a feature-length documentary that challenges of this mountainous world. of clean technology and inspire hearts and minds. uses the rat, as well as the humans that love them, Director: Erik Baláž Technical failures, unplanned landings, and stormy live with them, and kill them to explore the history Sun, Mar 18, 4 PM $10 Q&A Erik Baláž weather put the entire mission in jeopardy and drain of Baltimore. There’s never been a rat problem in Carnegie Institution for Science WORLD PREMIERE

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THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN THE CHOCOLATE CASE THE GAME CHANGERS (Norway, 2017, 90 min.) (Netherlands, 2016, 90 min.) (USA, 2018, 88 min.) Co-presented by the New African Film Festival The Chocolate Case is the incredible journey of Winner, Shared Earth Foundation Award for Advocacy Over the last ve years Kisilu, a smallholder farmer in three Dutch journalists, who tried to persuade large Executive Produced by James Cameron, The Game Kenya has lmed the life of his family, village and the corporations to end the use of child labor in the Changers tells the story of James Wilks —elite special impact of climate change by oods, droughts and chocolate industry, but when rebued, decides to take forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter —as storms, but also the more human costs - his kids are sent matters into their own hands by creating the world’s rst he travels the world on a quest for the truth behind the home from school when he can’t pay the fees. Men are slave-free chocolate bar Director: Benthe Forrer F world’s most dangerous myth: that meat is necessary moving to towns in search for jobs, and family tensions Thurs, Mar 22, 6 PM FREE Reservations Required for protein, strength and optimal health. Meeting elite rise. Kisilu takes this message of hope to the UN Climate Q&A with Director Benthe Forrer and Special Guest athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, Talks, in Paris, COP21. Director: Julia Dahr F Maurice Dekkers will be at screening. cultural icons, and everyday heroes, what James Wilks Sun, Mar 18, 2 PM $13 Embassy of the Netherlands DC PREMIERE discovers permanently changes his relationship with AFI Silver Theatre DC PREMIERE food and his denition of true strength. Director: Louie Psihoyos THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN Sat, Mar 24, 7 PM $35 (Norway, 2017, 90 min.) Q&A Joseph Pace, James Wilks and Louie Psihoyos Over the last ve years Kisilu, a smallholder farmer in Carnegie Institution for Science DC PREMIERE Kenya has lmed the life of his family, village and the impact of climate change by oods, droughts and storms, but also the more human costs - his kids are sent home from school when he can’t pay the fees. Men are moving to towns in search for jobs, and family tensions rise. Kisilu takes this message of hope to the UN Climate Talks, in Paris, COP21. Director: Julia Dahr F Thurs, Mar 22, 7 PM $10 S LM FI

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THE COLORADO LO DO (USA, 2016, 90 min.) EI Co-Presentation with The Kennedy Center THE GUARDIANS For ve million years the Colorado River has carved (USA, 2017, 70 min.) some of the most majestic landscapes on the planet. The Guardians poetically interweaves the lives of the It has also become the lifeline of a vast portion of threatened monarch buttery with an indigenous North America, providing the water that sustains nearly community ghting to restore the forest they nearly forty million people, half a dozen major cities, and an destroyed. Migrating 3,000 miles to hibernate in immense agricultural empire. The Colorado journeys towering Oyamels, the monarch population faces through the prehistoric settlement of the region, the collapse, hitting a record low of 33 million, down from 1 period of European exploration, the dam-building era, billion just twenty-years ago. Shot over three years, this modern industrial agriculture and immigration, and the cinematic journey through the monarch buttery dense impacts of climate change. Director: Murat Eyuboglu mountaintops of Michoacan tells an intimate story of a Sun, Mar 18, 7:30 PM $29 Q&A unique community on the front lines of conservation. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Directors: Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran F Preceded By Sun, Mar 18, 7 PM $10 IILLEGAL ACTIVISTS-THE BATTLE THE FARTHEST Q&A Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran E Street Cinema FOR NORWAY’S FJORDS (USA, 2016, 122 min.) WORLD PREMIERE (Norway, 2017, 11 min.) Presented by the National Academy of Sciences and Eighty youths chained themselves to mining drills the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. THE LAST ANIMALS to save a Norwegian fjord, in what became most NASA’s epic Voyager mission, launched in 1977, (US/UK, 2017, 92 min.) prominent civil disobedience action in Norway in 30 revolutionized our understanding of Jupiter, Saturn, Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation. years. The lm tells an intimate and personal story Uranus, Neptune and their dazzling moons and rings. The Last Animals follows the conservationists, about a political battle, and why young people decide to In 2012, Voyager 1 left our solar system and ushered scientists, and activists battling poachers and criminal break the law for a fjord that’s hundreds of miles away humanity into the interstellar age. networks to save elephants and rhinos from the edge of from their home. Directors: Julia Dahr F and Director: Emer Reynolds F extinction. Director: Kate Brooks F Julie Lunde Lillesæter F Fri, Mar 23, 8 PM $10 Q&A Thurs, Mar 15, 7 PM $35 Q&A Kate Brooks Thurs, Mar 22, 7 PM E Street Cinema US PREMIERE National Academy of Sciences National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE

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ANOTE’S ARK, Kiribati’s President, races to protect JANE drawing from over 100 hours of never-before- PARIS: A WILD STORY, witness the astonishing his island home against the backdrop of international seen footage, Jane tells the story of Jane Goodall, a destinies of creatures that stroll through town in climate negotiations and the ght to recognize climate woman whose chimpanzee research challenged the search of food, love, and adventures while humans displacement as an urgent human rights issue. male-dominated scientic consensus of her time. sleep, travel, and work in Paris.

CHASING THE THUNDER a thrilling high seas L’ODYSSÈE set in the summer of 1964, Jacques THE GUARDIANS poetically interweaves the lives of adventure documentary where two marine Cousteau attempts to balance his family life, his the threatened monarch buttery with an indigenous conservation captains from Sea Shepherd go on a hunger for adventure among the earth’s oceans, and community ghting to restore the forest they nearly hundred day chase of the illegal poacher and pirate his desire to bring the magic of undersea life into destroyed. shing vessel. homes worldwide. UNTAMED ROMANIA, a feature-length lm HIGH TIDE IN DORCHESTER a documentary that MARCH OF THE PENGUINS 2: THE NEXT STEP, celebrates Romania’s astounding natural beauty and aims to foster a conversation about climate change the sequel to March of the Penguins, Luc Jacquet sheer diversity of wild animals. and related impacts of sea level rise and erosion then returns with a new lm shot mostly in 4K, with unseen leverage that conversation into action. submarine and droneshots.

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THURS, MARCH 15 FRI, MARCH 16 SAT. MARCH 17 SUN. MARCH 18 11AM – 7PM 12 PM VR SHORT FILMS: SHORTS PROGRAM 4 CHASING CORAL: LA CUMBRE; RETURN FROM DESOLATION; THE VR EXPERIENCE (VR); A STEELHEAD QUEST: PORTRAIT OF A RIVERED LIFE; THE PROTECTORS: THE MIRNAVATOR WALK IN THE RANGER’S SHOES (VR) E Street Cinema Carnegie Institution for Science 12 PM BACKYARD WILDERNESS (IMAX) (Sneak Peek/Preview Event) Smithsonian Air & Space Museum 2 PM 12 PM A BEAUTIFUL STAR SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Freer Gallery of Art BOY-ZSHAN BI-DEN (BUFFALO RETURN); 2 PM CANIS LUPUS COLORADO; BEARTREK LIONS OF WEST TEXAS; National Geographic Society TEXAS LIVING WATER; 2 PM LECHE Y MIEL DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED BECKEY E Street Cinema E Street Cinema Ama-San 12:30 PM 2 PM MOTHER TONGUE FILM FIRE CHASERS (Episode 1&2) 6:30 PM FESTIVAL SHORTS Naval Heritage Center AMA-SAN IDENTIDAD/IDENTITY; 2 PM Japan Information SHAASH JAA/BEARS EARS; RAT FILM Cultural Center THEN, NOW, AND FOREVER: Hirshhorn Museum ZUNI IN THE GRAND CANYON; Lions of West Texas 2 PM WE PRAYED IN WATER THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN Museum of the American Indian AFI Silver Theatre The Last Animals 2 PM 2 PM SHORTS PROGRAM 5 CITY OF THE SUN YOCHI; HEART OF THE LAND; 7 PM The National Gallery of Art LA PESCA; PLANTAE OPENING NIGHT: 2 PM Carnegie Institution for Science THE LAST ANIMALS HOT GREASE National Geographic Society E Street Cinema 3 PM Preceded by 2 PM MIND OF A GIANT THE PROTECTORS: Sky Migrations HUMAN FLOW Smithsonian’s National Zoo WALK IN THE Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden RANGER’S SHOES 2 PM 4 PM Carnegie Institution for SHORTS PROGRAM 3 DUSK CHORUS Science No Man’s Land CAMERA TRAP; E Street Cinema 7 PM SKY MIGRATIONS; 4 PM ANOTE’S ARK THE SALMON FOREST; RANGER AND LEOPARD National Geographic Society WILDLIFE & THE WALL National Geographic Society 7 PM Carnegie Institution for Science 4 PM CHASING THE THUNDER 2 PM TMU/EKOPTOP PROGRAM BENDING THE ARC TATRA MOUNTAINS - LIFE ON THE EDGE Carnegie Institution for Science Naval Heritage Center Carnegie Institution for Science 7 PM 4 PM 4 PM LOVE & BANANAS EXPERIMENTAL CITY THE SACRIFICE Naval Heritage Center E Street Cinema The National Gallery of Art 7 PM 4 PM NO MAN’S LAND THE LAST HONEY HUNTER; MOUNTAIN 7 PM E Street Cinema National Geographic Society BIRD OF PREY 7 PM 4 PM National Geographic Society MAKALA EARTH OPTIMISM SHORTS: SOIL CARBON COWBOYS 7 PM Embassy of France with Director Peter Byck THE GUARDIANS Carnegie Institution for Science E Street Cinema 7 PM 4:30 PM UNTAMED Winner, Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film ROMANIA 9:30 PM FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF Carnegie SHORTS PROGRAM 1 National Gallery of Art Institution for COLORS OF CHANGE; Science FISH STORY; 7 PM MARCH OF THE PENGUINS 2: THE NEXT STEP 7:30 PM Untamed Romania MAMMOTH; National Geographic Society THE COLORADO SNAILS 7 PM The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts E Street Cinema THE NEW FIRE E Street Cinema 7 PM WASTED! THE STORY OF FOOD WASTE Carnegie Institution for Science

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MON, MARCH 19 TUES, MARCH 20 WED, MARCH 21 THURS, MARCH 22 FRI, MARCH 23 SAT, MARCH 24 SUN MARCH 25 12 PM 12 PM 12 PM 12 PM 12 PM 12 PM 12 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS PLANET POWER SHORTS PROGRAM 6: ENCORE SCREENINGS E Street Cinema E Street Cinema E Street Cinema E Street Cinema National Museum of ADAPTATION BANGLADESH: Carnegie Institution for 12 PM American History SEA LEVEL RISE; HARBINGER; Science LIVING PROOF: Short Films on the NOBODY LOVES ME; PERSON Human Toll of Climate Change by OF THE FOREST GroundTruth Films: A CLIMATE 6 PM Carnegie Institution for Science FOR CONFLICT; BREADWINNER THE CHOCOLATE CASE The Wilson Center Embassy of the Netherlands 6:30 PM HIGH TIDE IN DORCHESTER 2 PM National Museum of Women in ATOMIC HOMEFRONT the Arts Carnegie Institution for Science 2 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS 7 PM 3 PM Carnegie Institution for Gladesmen: EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC LAWS OF THE LIZARD Science The Last American University Smithsonian’s National Zoo 2 PM of the Sawgrass 6:30 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS Cowboys PROTECTING WILD RIVERS 4 PM Naval Heritage Center Department of the Interior ALBATROSS 7 PM National Geographic Society IN THE HILLS AND HOLLOW 4 PM 4 PM Carnegie Institution for Science Hightide in Dorchester UNFRACTURED ENCORE SCREENINGS 7 PM Carnegie Institution for Science Carnegie Institution for L’ODYSÈE 7 PM Science 7 PM Naval Heritage Center CHASING CORAL 7 PM BLUE 7 PM Naval Heritage Center Evolution of Organic ATLANTIC SALMON: Naval Heritage Center RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM LOST AT SEA 7 PM E Street Cinema GENERATION ON THE WIND POINT OF NO RETURN Winner, Shared Earth Naval Heritage Center DISPATCHES FROM THE GULF 2 7 PM The National Archives National Geographic Society Foundation Award for Advocacy 7 PM Carnegie Institution for Science THE RIVER’S BED 7 PM 7 PM THE GAME CHANGERS ARISTOLOCHIAS 7 PM NYU Winner, William W. Warner SYLVIA EARLE’S OCEAN Carnegie Institution for Science OF HAITI; CACU: UN GLADESMEN: THE LAST OF THE 7 PM Beautiful Swimmers Award FILM CHALLENGE CAMBIO POR LA VIDA SAWGRASS COWBOYS Eric Moe Award for Best Short on SILAS Naval Heritage Center E Street Cinema E Street Cinema Sustainability National Geographic Society 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM WATER WARRIORS; 7 PM EARTH OPTIMISM SHORTS: ENCORE SCREENINGS WHAT LIES UPSTREAM LITTLE YELLOW BOOTS THE BOTANIST ILLEGAL ACTIVISTS - THE HOPE ON THE HUDSON with Carnegie Institution for THEARC Embassy of Finland National Geographic Society BATTLE FOR NORWAY’S FJORDS; Director Jon Bowermaster Science 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN Carnegie Institution for Science JANE MEGASTRUCTURES: STUDENT SHORT E Street Cinema National Geographic GARDENS BY THE BAY ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 7 PM Society Embassy of Singapore American University PULITZER CENTER SHORTS 8 PM 7 PM A WIDOW’S TORMENT: THE FARTHEST 7 PM PARIS: A WILD STORY CONVERSATION VS. CATTLE IN National Academy of Sciences (Clips + Conversations) Embassy of France 9:30 PM KENYA; GREEN AT WHAT PRICE? SILENT FOREST 7 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS Carnegie Institution for Science Carnegie Institution (Clips + Conversation) E Street Cinema 7 PM for Science AN EVENING WITH CHRIS PALMER (Clips + Conversation) - THE BEST ENVIRONMENTAL OK, I’VE WATCHED THE FILM, FEATURE FILMS FROM NOW WHAT? HOLLYWOOD American University 9:30 PM American University 7 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS E Street Cinema Landmark Theatres Bethesda Row RESERVATIONS / SEATING POLICY Cinema All seats must be reserved in advance, unless otherwise noted, 9:30 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS at dceff.org/schedule. Wild Florida: Hidden in E Street Cinema Plain Sight Coyote: The Mike Plant Story You MUST arrive 15 minutes before posted show time to guarantee your seat. Patrons with tickets/reservations will be asked to join the RESERVED 7 PM line, which is prioritized. Badge holders and Friends of the Festival are (Clips + Conversation) WILD FLORIDA: HIDDEN IN added to the front of the line, then general ticket/reservation-holders. PLAIN SIGHT All empty seats are released 5 minutes before the posted show time. National Geographic Society 7 PM Patrons without reservations will be asked to join the STANDBY line. ENCORE SCREENINGS Landmark Theatres Bethesda Row Once the Reserved line has entered the theater, remaining seats will be Cinema awarded to Patrons in the Standby line. 9:30 PM ENCORE SCREENINGS E Street Cinema

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to restore peace to the world and nds he must give and how it’s directly contributing to climate change. something in return. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Directors: Anna Chai F and Nari Kye F Sat, Mar 18, 4 PM FREE Reservations Required Sat, Mar 17, 7 PM $10 The National Gallery of Art Q&A www.dceff.org for screening details Carnegie Institution for Science UNFRACTURED (Canada, 2017, 91 min.) Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation. Sandra Steingraber, hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as a “toxic avenger” debates the gas industry, delivers ery speeches, and marches alongside other protestors, often at great cost to her personal life and family’s well being. In December 2014, New York’s Governor announced a permanent ban on fracking. THE NEW FIRE During this dramatic moment, Sandra tearfully listens to (USA, 2017, 84 min.) the announcement with other anti-fracking activists and The good news - there’s a new solution to climate hears government ocials repeating her health-based change. The bad news - we may not like it. From arguments for a ban. Director: Chanda Chevannes F MIT to Silicon Valley, young engineers are rebooting Sat, Mar 24, 4 PM $10 a controversial and all but abandoned technology – Q&A Chanda Chevannes & Sandra Steingraber nuclear power. Director: David Schumacher Carnegie Institution for Science DC PREMIERE WHAT LIES UPSTREAM Sat, Mar 17, 7 PM $10 Q&A with David Schumacher (USA, 2017, 89 min.) E Street Cinema DC PREMIERE In January 2014 West Virginia citizens notice that a mysterious chemical, MCHM, has leaked into the Elk THE RIVER’S BED River, poisoning the drinking-water supply for nearly half (Switzerland, 2017, 88 min.) of West Virginia. Director: Cullen Hoback Co-presented with the Embassy of Switzerland Mon, Mar 19, 7 PM FREE Reservations Required The river Rhône has been straitjacketed for 150 years, Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus the history of a domination of its course by humans. But (THEARC) the river has not yet been tamed! This engaging and poetic lm, shot in the company of inhabitants linked to the future of the Rhône, is a journey that prompts universal questioning of our relationship with nature and N GA territory. Director: Mélanie Pitteloud F LI MIL

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UNTAMED ROMANIA (UK, 2018, 88 min.) A feature-length lm celebrates Romania’s astounding natural beauty and sheer diversity of wild animals. Vast mountains, ancient forests and expansive wetlands provide undisturbed habitats to many of the continent’s WOMAN AND THE GLACIER iconic creatures. Director: Tom Barton Humphreys (Lithuania/Estonia, 2016, 56 min.) Sun, Mar 18, 7 PM $10 Q&A Allison Bean, Managing The Lithuanian scientist Aura Revutaite has spent Director of Off the Fence and Tom Barton Humphreys 30 years in the Tian Shan mountain range straddling Carnegie Institution for Science US PREMIERE the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 WASTED! THE STORY OF meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and FOOD WASTE gray cat for company, she studies climate change (USA, 2017, 90 min.) on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research THE SACRIFICE Through the eyes of chef-heroes like Anthony Bourdain, station. Director: Audrius Stonys (Sweden, 1986; remastered 2017, 145 min.) Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura, and Danny www.dceff.org for screening details AFI Silver Theater At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way Bowien. The lm exposes the criminality of food waste DC PREMIERE

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COLORS OF CHANGE (Greenland, 2018, 22 min.) Experience Greenland through the eyes of Artist Zaria Forman, Nasa scientist, John Sonntag and Inuit Elder Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq “Uncle” who speaks for the ice. Director: Jenny Nichols F WORLD PREMIERE

FISH STORY (UK, 2017, 14 min.) A search for the truth behind a shy tale. Director: Charlie Lyne

MAMMOTH (USA, 2017, 26 min.) In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son try to recreate the Ice Age. Director: Grant Slater DC PREMIERE

SNAILS (Poland, 2015, 30 min.) The snail industry is growing and Polish breeders are exporting their snails not only to France or Italy, they are also conquering China and Japan. CANIS LUPIS COLORADO LIONS OF WEST TEXAS Director: Grzegorz Szczepaniak (USA, 2017, 18 min.) (USA, 2017, 9 min.) Canis Lupus Colorado is the story of the past, present, Researchers capture a wild mountain lion to put a GPS and future of Colorado’s now extinct native wolf collar on her in order to study mountain lion prey, home SHORTS PROGRAM 2 population. It unfolds through the eyes of Mike Phillips, range size, and to get a glimpse into the secretive lives Sat, Mar 17, 12 PM $10, E Street Cinema DC PREMIERE the world’s foremost expert on wolf restoration, John of Texas’ largest apex predator. The data collected only Emerick, an ecologist and author in Rocky Mountain adds to the mystery of how mountain lions continue to National Park, photojournalist Morgan Heim, elk hunter persist in West Texas where they can be trapped, shot, David Gann, and lifelong rancher Duke Phillips. Now and killed without regulation. Director: Ben Masters we’re at a tipping point: the emerging west, the future of our public wild lands, and the health of vast ecosystems are all at stake. Directors: Eric Bendick and Thomas Winston DC PREMIERE

LECHE Y MIEL (USA, 2016, 14 min.) Yuma is often thought of as a hot, dry desert town in southwestern Arizona, but for the area residents, and the United States as a whole, it is the land of plenty. During the winter months, nearly all the leafy vegetables Americans eat are grown in the fertile elds, which lie BOY-ZSHAN BI-DEN (BUFFALO RETURN) at the literal end of the Colorado River. For the people (USA, 2017, 9 min.) who work the elds, the Colorado River represents not Thanks to the Shoshone tribe, the National Wildlife only the source of their livelihood, but a deep, spiritual Federation, and the coordinated eorts of a host of other connection to this arid landscape as well. Leche y Miel TEXAS LIVING WATER individuals and organizations, bison have nally been (Milk & Honey) provides a short, beautiful glimpse into (USA, 2017, 9 min.) brought back to the Wind River Indian Reservation and the area’s Latino community and their connection to the Myron Hess has spent his life in court ghting for the the landscape that they once dened after a 130-year strained Colorado River. health of Texas Rivers and Bays. What will it take to get absence. Directors: Colin Ruggiero DC PREMIERE Director: Justin Clifton DC PREMIERE the needed Environmental Flows? Director: Ben Masters

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SHORTS PROGRAM 3 SHORTS PROGRAM 4 SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Sat, Mar 17, 2 PM $10, Carnegie Institution for Science Sun, Mar 18, 12 PM $10, E Street Cinema Sun, Mar 18, 2 PM $10, Carnegie Institution for Science

CAMERA TRAP A STEELHEAD QUEST: PORTRAIT OF A HEART OF THE LAND (Canada, 2016, 26 min.) RIVERED LIFE (Finland, 2016, 30 min.) An aspiring wilderness photographer puts every thing (USA, 2017, 50 min.) A couple runs a small dairy farm in the heart of the Finnish on the line in his quest to capture one photo that will A steelhead advocate and long-time angler, Terry countryside. The work of generations will soon come to help tell the story of the greatest land migration on Myers, spent 2015 in search of a wild steelhead its end, as their retirement is approaching and there’s no earth. Director: Marty O’Brien US PREMIERE on a dierent river each month of the year. The lm one left to continue the family tradition – love for the land, explores the experience of a two-year quest by an the richness of everyday life, and the sadness of letting go. unassuming, but determined woman as she tries to Directors: Kaisa Astikainene F unlock the mysteries of catching wild steelhead. With DC PREMIERE her husband Jerry in tow, we see the challenges they face with depleting runs, while still fully enjoying every aspect of being on the river together - rain or shine, sh or no sh. Director: Sarah Menzies F

LA CUMBRE (USA, 2017, 12 min.) La Cumbre unveils the reality of what it means to live as an amputee in the developing world. In partnership with the Range of Motion Project we join world class mountaineer and wounded warrior Chad Jukes on a heartfelt journey to shed light on a public health issue SKY MIGRATIONS aecting amputees world wide. (USA, 2017, 15 min.) Director: Dana Romanoff F DC PREMIERE While it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire hemisphere to raise a raptor. A landscape devoid of RETURN FROM DESOLATION LA PESCA raptors is without ecological integrity, the barometer (USA, 2017, 11 min.) (Canada/Colombia, 2017, 22 min.) of our collective wellbeing. High atop these remote Garrett Eaton, an Afghan war vet, oilman, and river Poetic and sensorial richness, the lm captures the ridgelines above the Great Basin, a region of unforgiving guide who has fought his way back from addiction gestures of a family of shermen in Colombia weave nets, deserts, mountain ranges and sagebrush steppes, is and certain death through the wild serpentine rivers cook, and play dominoes, all the while waiting for the sh the frontline of raptor conservation. of the American Southwest. While this is a story to come so that they can recommence anew. Director: Charles Gifford US PREMIERE of renewal, forgiveness and healing, Return from Director: Pablo Alvarez Mesa US PREMIERE Desolation is also a bridge between what we think we WILDLIFE AND THE WALL know and the nuance of what it means to be human PLANTAE (USA, 2017, 5 min.) in a complex society. Through Garrett’s experience, we (Brazil, 2017, 10 min.) Wildlife and the Wall showcases the beautiful see the importance of wild, public landscapes to help When cutting a big tree deep inside the Amazon jungle, landscapes of the United States-Mexico border, us all nd our way home. a logger contemplates an unexpected reaction of nature. discusses how a border wall would impact beyond Director: Justin Clifton DC PREMIERE Director: Guilherme G. Acuna Gehr US PREMIERE immigration, and provides a look at how a few wildlife species in the area would be aected. THE MIRNAVATOR YOCHI Director: Ben Masters (USA, 2017, 11 min.) (USA, 2017, 25 min.) Ultra-runners overcome obstacles on every trail. While Yochi, a 9-year-old selectively mute Mayan boy, guards a THE SALMON FOREST competing in her rst 50K trail race of the season, nest of endangered Yellow-Headed Parrots in Belize’s pine (USA, 2017, 30 min.) Mirna Valerio must overcome the negative voices that savannah. When his beloved older brother, Itza, returns The Salmon Forest explores the connection between don’t believe she belongs in the sport. from the city, Yochi learns that he’s in debt and has turned wild salmon and the livelihood of the people who live Director: Sarah Menzies F DC PREMIERE to poaching – setting the brothers on a collision course. near the Tongass National Forest in Southeastern Director: Ilana Lapid F DC PREMIERE Alaska. The lm celebrates the unique role public lands play in salmon production while reminding us that proper management can support commercial sheries, subsistence, recreation, and healthy forests. Director: Ben Hamilton Q&A DC PREMIERE

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SHORTS PROGRAM 6 EARTH OPTIMISM SHORTS: STUDENT SHORT Sun, Mar 24, 12 PM $10, Carnegie Institution for Science HOPE ON THE HUDSON ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM FREE American University ADAPTATION BANGLADESH: SEA LEVEL RISE Co-presented with the Smithsonian’s (USA, 2017, 12 min.) Conservation Common Fascinating and entertaining lms made by top lm The “new normal” of global climate change is, generally, a Two short lms celebrate eorts to restore the Hudson students. Professor Chris Palmer and DCEFF’s harrowing reality to contemplate. Cultural anthropologist River and the ship that once plied its waters, followed by Samantha Plakun will lead an entertaining and Alizé Carrére helps us see, however, that it does not a discussion with the lmmaker and Smithsonian expert. interactive session with the audience and the need to be a reality devoid of hope. In Bangladesh — the Director: Jon Bowermaster lmmakers on why and how these lms are made. most densely populated country in the world and one Fri, Mar 23, 7 PM $10, Carnegie Institution for Science Followed by a discussion with the student lmmakers. that will bear a disproportionate share of the impact of global climate change — Carrére shows us the kind of RESTORING THE CLEARWATER LIVING PROOF: resilience, exibility and innovation that will be requisite for (USA, 2017, 17 min.) Short Films on the Human Toll of the survival of our species. For nearly a year the historic sloop, Clearwater, was out Climate Change by Ground Truth Films Director: Justin DeShields DC PREMIERE of the water, on land, enduring what wooden boats have Wed, Mar 21, 12 PM FREE historically endured forever: Restoration. Onshore near Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars HARBINGER the Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout (USA, 2017, 27 min.) Creek in Kingston, swathed in tarps and protective A CLIMATE FOR CONFLICT Chytrid is an invasive fungus that swept through Central sheets, the nearly 60-year-old wooden boat was (Somalia, 2017, 15 min.) America, wiping out amphibians. Entire species vanished carefully mended and updated. Built under the visionary This lm interweaves the intimate stories of people and the world barely noticed. Luckily Edgardo Grith and leadership of musician/activist and Hudson River living in Somalia and trying to cope with a changing Heidi Ross realized how close Panama’s national animal resident Pete Seeger, the Clearwater continues to fulll environment: a sherman starts pirating boats when he might be to extinction. They breed dozens of species in the original mission he envisioned, to help educate and can no longer make a living at sea; a camel herder goes captivity, and ght tirelessly for rare amphibians. Featuring share the plight of our local Hudson River environment to war with neighbors over pasture and water; a farmer Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning as it lus its sails and roams America’s First River. joins the extremist group Al-Shabaab when drought book, “The Sixth Extinction.” DC PREMIERE becomes too intense. This lm is part of a larger project Director: Sam Sheline WORLD PREMIERE that has been featured in Foreign Policy, ABC News CITY ON THE WATER Nightline and National Public Radio. NOBODY LOVES ME (USA, 2017, 18 min.) Directors: Nichole Sobecki F and Laura Heaton F (USA, 2017, 12 min.) From Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek to Queens’ Flush High in Lake Titicaca in the Andes Mountains, a large Meadow, waterways once thought ruined forever BREADWINNER and homely frog once thrived, a species endemic to by industrial and manmade pollution are making a (Afghanistan, 2018, 10 min.) altitude and cold water named Telmatobius culeus. But comeback. From the Billion Oyster Project to Dragon Extremism in Afghanistan, the lm highlights the power over-collecting for human consumption, pollution and Boat races, from the Gowanus Canal to the Harlem of girls’ education to address the impacts of climate predation by introduced species have devastated the River, there is brand new activity on all of the waterways change. Families grapple with the impacts of drought, Titicaca water frog. In 2016, 10,000 frogs died all at that surround NYC, making this the cornerstone of our some farmers begin growing illegal and extremist-linked once, and it wasn’t the rst mass die-o this critically new Hope on the Hudson series. opium poppy while others nd an unlikely solution to their endangered species has experienced. This short lm crisis: educated, working women. This lm continues from The Redford Center shines a new light on these the lmmakers’ commitment to in-depth reporting in underappreciated animals, showing their amazing Afghanistan where they spent seven years making the adaptability, crucial role in the aquatic ecosystem and feature documentary What Tomorrow Brings, which was what’s at stake — unless humans intervene. an Emmy® nominated PBS/POV series and winner of Director: Jeff Reichert DC PREMIERE EARTH OPTIMISM SHORTS: 2017 Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont and Overseas SOIL CARBON COWBOYS Press Club Awards). PERSON OF THE FOREST With Director Peter Byke Director: Beth Murphy F WORLD PREMIERE (USA, 2017, 17 min.) Co-presented with the Smithsonian’s In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, research is Conservation Common underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural Three short lms showcase pioneering eorts by behaviors in wild orangutans. There, photographer Tim farmers to make agriculture sustainable, followed by a Laman, researcher Cheryl Knott, and young explorer discussion with the lmmaker and Smithsonian expert. Robert Suro shed new light on the similarities between Sat, Mar 17, 4 PM $10 Q&A Peter Byke our ancient ancestors, and us before it’s too late. Carnegie Institution for Science Director: Melissa Lesh F

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VR SHORT FILMS ERIC MOE AWARDS SHORTS Through the magic of virtual reality, immerse yourself in Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM $10 the environment like never before. National Geographic Society Visit dceff.org to learn more. Sat, Mar 17 and Sat, Mar 24, 11AM -7 PM FREE Carnegie Institution for Science

WATER WARRIORS (USA/Canada, 2017, 22 min.) WINNER: Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Sustainability Water Warriors is the story of a community’s successful ght against the oil and natural gas RS industry in New Brunswick, Canada, A multicultural VE VE group of unlikely warriors set up a series of D road blockades, sometimes on re, preventing AR CH exploration. After months of resistance, their RI CY eorts not only halted drilling; they elected a new EN AG government and won an indenite moratorium on N fracking in the province. Director: Michael Premo EA OC Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM $10 Q&A Michael Premo E TH National Geographic Society DC PREMIERE CHASING CORAL: THE BOTANIST THE VR EXPERIENCE (VR) (Canada, 2016, 20 min.) (USA, 2017, 6 min.) Finalist: Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Synopsis: This adventurous underwater VR experience Sustainability follows Zackery Rago, a passionate scuba diver and After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former researcher, as he documented the unprecedented Social Soviet Republic, plunged into a devastating 2016 coral bleaching event at Lizard Island on the civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region Great Barrier Reef o the coast of Australia. An of the Pamir where Raimberdi, a passionate and insightful exploration that accompanies Je Orlowski’s ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric feature lm of the same name (Audience Award: station to help his family survive through the crisis. US Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, 2017), Maude Plante-Husaruk F and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis about the quest of a group of lmmakers and ocean Wed, Mar 21, 7 PM $10 scientists to capture visual evidence of our changing National Geographic Society oceans. Director: Jeff Orlowski

THE PROTECTORS: WALK IN THE RANGER’S SHOES (VR) PULITZER SHORTS (USA, 2017, 10 min.) Presented with the Pulitzer Center From National Geographic Documentary Films, The on Crisis Reporting Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes chronicles A series of shorts presented with the a day in the life of a ranger in Garamba National Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Park. These rangers often are last line of defense in Thurs, Mar 22, 7 PM $10 a race against extinction, at the hands of poachers Carnegie Institution for Science slaughtering elephants for their ivory tusks. Directors: Kathryn Bigelow F and Imraan Ismail

PROTECTING WILD RIVERS A lm showcase celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act Wed, Mar 21, 6:30 PM FREE with Reservations Department of the Interior Q&A

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MOTHER TONGUE FILM FESTIVAL SHAASH JAA / BEARS EARS SHORTS (USA, 2016, 23 min.) Through the magic of virtual reality, immerse yourself Shásh Jaa’ (Bears Ears) is 1.9 million acres of Utah in the environment like never before. wilderness considered sacred lands to many indigenous Visit dceff.org to learn more. communities of the four-corners area, including the Sat, Mar 17, 12:30 PM Navajo, Ute, Ute Mountain, Hopi, and Zuni peoples. The Museum of the American Indian governments of these tribal nations come together to form the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, in hopes of having the IDENTIDAD/IDENTITY area designated a National Monument to be co-managed (Panama, 2017, 4 min.) with the partnership tribes. In the struggle to maintain their traditional lands Director: Angelo Baca (Navajo) many Indigenous communities are caught between modernization and traditional culture. Must they be at THEN, NOW, AND FOREVER: ZUNI IN THE odds? Must the embrace of one eradicate the other? GRAND CANYON Director: Iván Jaripio (Embera) (USA, 2017, 27 min.) Created under the direction of the Zuni Elders, this short WE PRAYED IN WATER documentary follows several elders and Medicine Men on (USA, 2012, 5 min.) an ancient pilgrimage through the Grand Canyon to visit Cherokee Nation tribal members worry about fracking their place of origin and advocate for the protection of the pollution disrupting the ceremonial practice of “going to land. Director: Daniel A. Byers water.” Director: Joseph Erb (Cherokee)

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AN EVENING WITH CHRIS PALMER THE BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURE FILMS FROM HOLLYWOOD Film producer Chris Palmer describes, with lots of clips, the best environmental feature lms of all time THE from Hollywood, illustrating his remarks with compelling footage. He will also screen the winners of this year’s ENVIRONMENTAL Eco-Comedy Video Competition, co-sponsored by AU’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking and The Nature FILM FESTIVAL Conservancy. Tues, Mar 20, 7 PM FREE Reservations Required Q&A IN THE American University NATION’S CAPITAL OK, I’VE WATCHED THE FILM, NOW WHAT? How do we produce lms that make a dierence? This The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s session, illustrated with clips of inspiring lms, explores Capital is the world’s premier showcase of the ways we can turn lms into action, at both the policy environmentally themed lms. Since 1993, our and personal levels. Our top panelists will address the mission has been to celebrate Earth and inspire challenges of producing lms that have a tangible and understanding and stewardship of the environment measurable impact on their audiences and society. SYLVIA EARLE’S OCEAN FILM through the power of lm. Thurs, Mar 22, 7 PM FREE Reservations Required Q&A CHALLENGE American University Presented with Mission Blue, Audience Awards and Each March in Washington DC, we host the largest HATCH environmental lm festival in the world, presenting SILENT FOREST A showcase of ocean shorts from lmmakers 100+ lms to audiences of more than 30,000. (USA, 2018, work in progress) around the world. Filmmaker and topical discussions are an important Silent Forest is an intimate portrait of conservationists and Fri, Mar 23, 7 PM FREE Q&A part of our events, which happen at museums, activists who are ghting to stop forest elephant poaching Naval Heritage Center embassies, libraries, universities, and local theaters and wildlife tracking in Africa’s Congo Basin region. throughout the city. We also present a year-round Director: Mariah Wilson F 2018 Environmental Champion screening series and community events. Mon, Mar 19, 7 PM $10 Q&A Mariah Wilson Carnegie Institution for Science Dr. Sylvia Earle, a world-renowned Many of our screenings are free, and our oceanographer, explorer, author, and Washington, DC location oers the unique lecturer was recognized as DCEFF’s 2018 opportunity for lms and lmmakers to reach national Environmental Champion for her commitment and international lawmakers and decision-makers. to raising awareness about the need for Our impact continues to grow both in DC and ocean conservation through lm and personal beyond. advocacy. She has led more than 100 expeditions worldwide, logging more than 7,000 hours We are the largest and longest-running underwater. environmental lm festival in the United States.

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A BEAUTIFUL STAR 4 DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED BECKEY 5 LITTLE YELLOW BOOTS 2, 7 SYLVIA EARLE’S OCEAN FILM CHALLENGE 21 A CLIMATE FOR CONFLICT 18 DISPATCHES FROM THE GULF 2 6 L’ODYSSEE 8,11 TATRA MOUNTAINS – LIFE ON THE EDGE 2, 9 A STEELHEAD QUEST: PORTRAIT OF A DONKEYOTE 6 LOVE & BANANAS 8 TEXAS LIVING WATER 16 RIVERED LIFE 17 DUSK CHORUS 6 MAKALA 8 THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN 2, 10 ADAPTATION BANGLADESH: SEA LEVEL RISE 18 EARTH OPTIMISM SHORTS: HOPE ON THE HUDSON 18 MAMMOTH 16 THE BOTANIST 19 ALBATROSS 2, 4 EARTH OPTIMISM SHORTS: SOIL CARBON COWBOYS 18 MARCH OF THE PENGUINS 2: THE NEXT STEP 2, 8,11 THE CHOCOLATE CASE 2, 10 AMA-SAN 4 EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC 2, 6 MEGASTRUCTURES: GARDENS BY THE BAY 8 THE COLORADO 10 AN EVENING WITH CHRIS PALMER: THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL CITY 6 MIND OF A GIANT 8, 12 THE FARTHEST 10 ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURE FILMS FROM HOLLYWOOD 21 FIRE CHASERS 6 MOUNTAIN 8 THE GAME CHANGERS 3, 10 ANOTE’S ARK 2,4, 11 FISH STORY 16 OK, I’VE WATCHED THE FILM, NOW WHAT? 21 THE GUARDIANS 11, 10 ARISTOLOCHIAS OF HAITI 5 FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF 3, 6 NO MAN’S LAND 8 THE LAST ANIMALS 2, 3, 10 ATLANTIC SALMON – LOST AT SEA 4 GENERATION ON THE WIND 6 NOBODY LOVES ME 18 THE LAST HONEY HUNTERS 8 ATOMIC HOMEFRONT 2, 4 GLADESMEN: THE LAST OF THE PARIS: A WILD STORY 2, 9,11 THE MIRNAVATOR 17 BACKYARD WILDERNESS 4 SAWGRASS COWBOYS 6 PERSON OF THE FOREST 18 THE NEW FIRE 15 BEARTREK 4 HARBINGER 18 PLANET POWER 9 THE PROTECTORS: WALK IN THE RANGER’S SHOES 3, 19 BENDING THE ARC 4 HEART OF THE LAND 17 PLANTAE 17 THE RIVER’S BED 15 BIRD OF PREY 2, 5 HIGH TIDE IN DORCHESTER 7, 11 POINT OF NO RETURN 9 THE SACRIFICE 15 BLUE 5 HOT GREASE 7 PROTECTING WILD RIVERS 19 THE SALMON FOREST 17 BOY-ZSHAN BI-DEN 16 HUMAN FLOW 7 PULITZER SHORTS 19 THEN, NOW, AND FOREVER: ZUNI IN THE BREADWINNER 18 IDENTIDAD/IDENTITY 20 RANGER AND LEOPARD 2, 9 GRAND CANYON 20 CACU: UN CAMBIO POR LA VIDA 5 ILLEGAL ACTIVISTS – THE BATTLE FOR RAT FILM 9 UNFRACTURED 15 CAMERA TRAP 17 NORWAY’S FJORDS 10 RESTORING THE CLEARWATER 18 UNTAMED ROMANIA 11, 15 CANIS LUPIS COLORADO 16 IN THE HILLS AND HOLLOWS 7 RETURN FROM DESOLATION 17 WASTED! THE STORY OF FOOD WASTE 2, 15 CHASING CORAL 5, 12, 13, 19 INTO THE AMAZON 7 RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE 9 WATER WARRIORS 2, 3, 19 CHASING CORAL: THE VR EXPERIENCE 19 JANE 2, 7, 11 SHAASH JAA/BEARS EARS 20 WE PRAYED IN WATER 20 CHASING THE THUNDER 5, 11 LA CUMBRE 2, 17 SILAS 2, 3, 9 WHAT LIES UPSTREAM 15 CITY OF THE SUN 5 LA PESCA 17 SILENT FOREST 21 WILD FLORIDA 21 CITY ON THE WATER 18 LAWS OF THE LIZARD 7, 13 SKY MIGRATIONS 17 WILDLIFE AND THE WALL 17 COLORS OF CHANGE 16 LECHE Y MIEL 16 SNAILS 16 WOMAN AND THE GLACIER 15 COYOTE: THE MIKE PLANT STORY 5 LIONS OF WEST TEXAS 16 STUDENT SHORT ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 18 YOCHI 17

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, YOU’RE CONNECTED TO THE OCEAN.

—DR. SYLVIA EARLE

National Geographic salutes Explorer-in-Residence and Environmental Film Festival Guest of Honor Sylvia Earle for her pioneering work exploring and protecting our ocean. Her dedication—and her impact—are an inspiration for us all.

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