12th Annual 90 documentary, feature, animated, archival and children’s films Most screenings include discussion and are free MARCH 18-28 2004 www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org PHONE 202.342.2564 FAX 202.337.0658 EMAIL [email protected] Presented with the ROYAL NETHERLANDS EMBASSY SPECIAL The United States Premiere of DUTCH LIGHT (Netherlands, 2003, 94 min.) PRE-FESTIVAL A 35mm film by Pieter-Rim de Kroon and Maarten de Kroon There’s an ancient myth that the light in Holland is unique. The special quality of Dutch light was discovered and celebrated in the work of artists like Vermeer and van Goyen, Mondrian and the Hague School or even painters working today. But the German SCREENING artist Joseph Beuys suggested that Dutch light lost its extraordinary radiance after the reclamation of large parts of the lJsselmeer, an inland sea, in the 1950s. This glittering Wednesday, “eye of Holland” profusely reflected light and painters captured it in an unparalleled way. Dutch Light centers largely on Beuys’ hypothesis. Is his theory valid? Does the February 25 phenomenon of Dutch light still exist? Dutch Light is about looking, about taking time to observe things closely. It draws the viewer into a hypnotic maelstrom of ideas, At the National Geographic Society hypotheses, colors, images, landscapes … and, of course, light. Introduced by His Excellency Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam, Netherlands Ambassador to the United States. Screening: 7 p.m. Tickets: $15 For tickets and information, please call the National Geographic ticket office at (202) 857-7700, fax your ticket request to (202) 857-7747 or register online at www.nationalgeographic.com/lectures National Geographic Society Gilbert H. Grosvenor Auditorium 1600 M St., NW 2 Washington, D.C., United States and World Premieres* Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday March 18 March 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 Pages 6-7 Pages 8-9 Pages 9-11 Pages 11-13 Pages 13-14 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 10:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 12:00 noon MARTIN LUTHER KING, NATIONAL MUSEUM & 11:30 a.m. NATIONAL BUILDING Virginia Department JR. MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY NATIONAL GALLERY MUSEUM of Forestry CHARLES SUMNER Wonder Down Under – Memories of Earth* OF ART A Constructive SCHOOL The Animation of Nick Urgan: Child of the Madness* Hilligoss 12:30 p.m. Himalayas* Laying Down Roots: Turtle World Mexican Cultural 1:00 p.m. Neighborhood Tree Institute 10:30 a.m. & The Smithsonian Program* Lower Orders NATIONAL GALLERY 2:30 p.m. Associates Rats* OF ART THE TEXTILE MUSEUM NATIONAL MUSEUM 7:00 p.m. OF NATURAL HISTORY D.C. JEWISH Air Pollution* Gabriel Orozco* Gabbeh Finding Nemo: The COMMUNITY CENTER Termites* 7:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Making of a Blockbuster Rutenberg* CAPITOL HILL ARTS with Roger Gould of 12:30 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. WORKSHOP PIXAR Studios 7:00 p.m. Mexican Cultural CAPITAL CHILDREN'S Institute Captains Courageous MUSEUM The Smithsonian 1:30 p.m. Associates NATIONAL GALLERY Northern Exposure – NATIONAL MUSEUM NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART 9:00 p.m. New Animation From OF AMERICAN OF NATURAL HISTORY AFI SILVER THEATER the National Film Gabriel Orozco* HISTORY AND CULTURAL Board of Canada An Evening with Sir CENTER Monumental: David David Attenborough 7:00 p.m. The Magic of Anansi CORCORAN GALLERY An Evening with Brower's Fight to Little Armadillos* 9:00 p.m. OF ART Animator Bill Plympton Protect Wild America* Showa Shinzan* Italian Cultural Institute Photos to Send Lucas the Ear of Corn 2:00 p.m. VISIONS BAR NOIR Loon Dreaming 25 Ways to Quit FREER GALLERY OF 7:00 p.m. At the First Breath of Smoking Christopher, Please ART Wind* EMBASSY OF FRANCE Clean Up Your Room Smell the Flowers A Story of Floating The Butterfly* Weeds The Exciting Life of a 11:00 a.m. Tree 7:00 p.m. NATIONAL 2:00 p.m. GEOGRAPHIC NATIONAL MUSEUM Parking NATIONAL MUSEUM SOCIETY OF AFRICAN ART OF AFRICAN ART Microcosmos Waiting for Happiness Waiting for Happiness 1:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL MUSEUM GEOGRAPHIC ZOOLOGICAL PARK OF AMERICAN SOCIETY Schedule of Events Cheetah: Cats in HISTORY Winged Migration Crisis* Save Our History – Yellowstone 3:00 p.m. NATIONAL GALLERY 7:00 p.m. OF ART NATIONAL MUSEUM Los Angeles Plays OF WOMEN IN THE Itself* ARTS Warrior of Light* 3 Washington, D.C., United States and World Premieres* Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday March 23 March 24 March 25 March 26 Pages 15-16 Pages 17-20 Pages 20-23 Pages 23-24 12:00 noon 10:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon Worldwatch Institute PETWORTH BRANCH CAPITOL HILL ARTS CAPITOL VIEW BRANCH NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHARLES SUMNER LIBRARY WORKSHOP LIBRARY NATURAL HISTORY Wonder Down Under – SCHOOL Wonder Down Under – Spawn of the North Coiba: Savage The Animation of Nick Simple Living with The Animation of Nick Hilligoss Paradise* Wanda Urbanska* Hilligoss 7:00 p.m. Lower Orders Lower Orders U.S. NATIONAL 12:00 noon 12:00 noon ARBORETUM Rats* WOODROW WILSON Rats* NATIONAL The Story of Air Pollution* CENTER GEOGRAPHIC Air Pollution* Chocolate* The Yunnan Great SOCIETY Termites* Termites* Renewing Hope for Rivers Expedition Burma's Forbidden Cocoa Farmers in 12:00 noon Islands* 12:00 noon Sulawesi, Indonesia* WOODROW WILSON 6:30 p.m. WOODROW WILSON CENTER ROYAL NETHERLANDS 3:30 p.m. CENTER EMBASSY 7:30 p.m. Drowned Out WOODROW WILSON Seas of Grass EMBASSY OF THE Extreme Engineering: CENTER CZECH REPUBLIC 7:00 p.m. Holland's Barriers to Power Trip 5:30 p.m. “Bustling Cities”: EMBASSY OF CANADA the Sea AMERICAN Bohemian Paradise* Climate on the Edge* 7:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY 8:00 p.m. A Map of Places Sacred GOETHE-INSTITUT Selections from 2003 7:00 p.m. National Museum of the and Cursed* American Indian INTER-NATIONES United Nations NATIONAL MUSEUM HIRSHHORN MUSEUM Selections from 2003 Association Film Festival The Trees' Memories – OF AFRICAN ART Not Just Oak, Beech & SCULPTURE GARDEN ÖKOMEDIA Film Empty Oceans, Born Slave* and Linden Trees* Song of the Earth* Festival, Freiburg, Empty Nets Germany 7:00 p.m. Voices of the Sierra The Shaman's 9:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m. Tarahumara* Save Nature* Apprentice Italian Cultural Institute The Int’l. Campaign Hederse* VISIONS BAR NOIR for Tibet 100% Cotton – Made 5:30 p.m. At the First Breath of VISIONS BAR NOIR in India* & 8:30 p.m. Wind* EMBASSY OF Best of Tibetan Short Film Blue Gold in the SWITZERLAND A Man Called Nomad* Garden of Eden* Shepherds' Journey Devotion and Defiance: 7:00 p.m. into the Third The Tibetan Struggle for Religious Freedom* Earthwatch Institute Millennium* NATIONAL Escape from Tibet GEOGRAPHIC 6:00 p.m. SOCIETY EMBASSY OF 8:00 p.m. AUSTRALIA AMERICAN Lords of the Arctic* Wildness* UNIVERSITY 7:00 p.m. How to Make a Bird The Smithsonian We Were Humans Associates Inheritance: A NATIONAL MUSEUM Fisherman's Story* OF NATURAL HISTORY TRANSPORTATION TO FESTIVAL VENUES Left Behind Dolphins* For METRO or Bus information, please 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. consult the Washington Metropolitan National Museum of the EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA Area Transit Authority's website at American Indian Sahara: The English HIRSHHORN MUSEUM www.wmata.com, or call (202) 637-7000 Patient's Desert* & SCULPTURE GARDEN to reach customer information. For maps Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole* or driving directions, please consult www.mapquest.com. Schedule of Events 4 Saturday Sunday Films for Children and Families March 27 March 28 Look for the Tadpole Pages 24-27 Pages 27-28 IThursday, March 18 ISunday, March 21 10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. NATIONAL GALLERY NATIONAL MUSEUM OF 10:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. OF ART NATURAL HISTORY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEMORIAL LIBRARY NATURAL HISTORY Elina* Winners from 2003 Jackson Hole Wildlife Wonder Down Under – Finding Nemo: The Making of 12:00 noon Film Festival The Animation of Nick Hilligoss a Blockbuster with Roger Gould Turtle World of PIXAR Studios AMERICAN China Bear UNIVERSITY Special: Really Wild Lower Orders I Lens at Work: Show* Rats * Tuesday, March 23 Environmental Films for Snake Killers: Honey Air Pollution * Action, A Filmmakers' 7:00 p.m. Badgers of the Kalahari Roundtable Termites * NATIONAL MUSEUM OF Flip Flotsam* NATURAL HISTORY 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Dolphins * The Cultured Ape* EMBASSY OF FRANCE AVALON THEATER Temple of the Tigers: The Butterfly* I Never Cry Wolf India's Bandhavgarh Wednesday, March 24 Wilderness 1:00 p.m. ISaturday, March 20 10:30 a.m. Wild Africa NATIONAL BUILDING PETWORTH BRANCH LIBRARY MUSEUM Deadly Sounds in the 10:30 a.m. Wonder Down Under – NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART The Anacostia – Silent World* The Animation of Nick Hilligoss Urgan: Child of the Himalayas * Restoring the People's My Halcyon River* Lower Orders River* Rats * 2:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. CAPITAL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Air Pollution * 1:00 p.m. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF Termites * Mexican Cultural AFRICAN ART Northern Exposure – New Animation from the National Film Board of Canada Institute Born Slave* NATIONAL GALLERY The Magic of Anansi IThursday, March 25 OF ART Little Armadillos * 10:30 a.m. Gabriel Orozco* Showa Shinzan * CAPITOL VIEW BRANCH LIBRARY Loon Dreaming 2:00 p.m. Wonder Down Under- Christopher, Please Clean Up AMERICAN The Animation of Nick Hilligoss Your Room UNIVERSITY Lower Orders Diane Wilson, A 11:00 a.m. Rats * Warrior's Tale NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Air Pollution * Esmeraldas: Petroleum Microcosmos Termites * and Poverty Schedule of Events 11:30 a.m.