ENVIRONMENT
The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of environment. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.
Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)
Journey to the “Asparagus Capital of the World” to discover why one little vegetable is so important.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Broken Limbs: Searching for the New American Farmer
Wenatchee, Washington is the frontline of the battle to save America’s small-scale apple farmers.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty
Esmeraldas documents the intense human suffering that occurred when a Texaco oil refinery exploded and destroyed an Afro-Ecuadorian community.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Food Justice: A Growing Movement
Farmers become activists in the fight for food justice in West Oakland, California.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
Food for Thought
Baltimore youth love to eat their fruits and vegetables.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
Garbage Dreams
Egypt’s resident garbage recyclers, the Zaballeen, struggle as Cairo modernizes its waste disposal system.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
Michigan youth investigate the dubious circumstances under which a Wal-Mart appeared on a wetland in their small town.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
How to Make a Bird
What happens when a woman tries to turn herself into a bird? Not much. This short video shows how all the feathers in the world can’t rebuild an extinct species.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Inch By Inch: Providence Youth Gardens for Change
Teachers and students in Providence, Rhode Island get their hands dirty and their lives enriched.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
Lean on Me
When the mayor’s office says “no,” a group of kids find a safe place to play basketball.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Neglected Sky
In this fast-paced animation, youth producer John Cooney shows us that a little effort can go a long way in reversing global warming.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
One More Dead Fish
Handline fishermen fight to survive in a rapidly globalizing industry.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
Recycle
Poet Miguel Diaz transforms poverty into cultivation in the middle of a Los Angeles street.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Ripe for Change
In a world where scarcity is the norm, our food system is ripe for change.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Sovereign Nation / Sovereign Neighbor
The Narragansett tribe defends its sovereignty only to encounter violent resistance and entrenched misunderstanding from their home state of Rhode Island.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Still Standing
Ms. Gertrude returns to what remains of her New Orleans home and fights to rebuild what she can in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Terminator Tomatoes
A farmer and his daughter get in too deep with a crop of genetically modified tomatoes.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
The Farm Sanctuary
Fifth graders from the Bronx go upstate to meet rescued farm animals and try out veganism, at least for the weekend.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
The Future of Food
How did we get here? As food, science and capitalism have merged, our global food system is in peril.
Official selection of the media that matters: good food festival
The Luckiest Nut In The World
A singing peanut and his gang of shelled friends explain that sometimes free trade is just nuts.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
The Meatrix
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland where quaint family farms produce food for our tables?
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Water Warriors
When water costs soar, residents of Highland Park, Michigan demand to know who will foot the bill.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
We Were Humans
This multimedia animation asks what would happen if the billions of dollars of yearly military spending were directed towards education and world hunger.
Official selection of the third annual festival
World On Fire
$5,000 could cover the cost of hair and make-up for one day on set in LA or pay for one year’s schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan. Sarah McLachlan does the math and encourages you to join her.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
Young Agrarians
Young people plant the seeds for a sustainable future in this portrait of organic farming in California.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
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