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50 years in the making

The Battle For A Living Planet 

 A Fierce Green Fire showed global activism and the grassroots environmental movement at its finest. From conservation to activism, this documentary condesing 50 years into a couple hours. The times might be changing, the our impact on the earth is changing with it. From a depletion of resources, to human right, to climate change; only we can make the change.

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The power of people

Three Stories, Three Continents, One Commitment to Change 

Elemental was an extremely powerful and moving film. It showed how a single human can make so much of a difference. The film focuses on three characters and their commitment to change. A native Alaskan woman, who fights Tar Sands corperations for her land and her people through activism. An Indian man who see the Ganges River, Mother, being destroyed. Though education, sanitation, and community support; there is a chance for India to reclaim their Mother. A brilliant man, with a love for the environment, turn to nature to solve the current climate crisis. His radical ideas soon become reality as he will impact the world in a powerful, important way.

Can you commit to change?

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OH MY GOD, GMO'S!

GMO OMG

This film sets out to explore Genetically Modified Organisms, out food system, our rights, and our health. Jeremy goes across the nation, and to Haiti, France and Norway to answer his own questions. Jeremy seeks out answers so that he can not only keep his family safe, but keep us safe as well. GMO's are left in the dark in the US. They are not labeled, yet they are in almsot all of the food we eat. Key corporations work together with the government to increase GMO's and keep them secret to increase revenue. It's time to stand up for our Right to Know, and our health. Keep GMO's out of the ground, off the shelves, and away from our tables.

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Corruption, Greed, Money, War, Destruction... Can you be a "Big Man"?

Big Men.

This film exposed the greed and corruptiion in Ghana and Nigeria in the hopes of becoming "Big". Yet becoming "Big" always seemed to be at the expense of someone else, of the earth. Big Men showed the exploitation of resources and the people of Africa, the influence that corporations have on other countries, and the power that drives humans to find and extract resources for energy (Money).

It surpirsed me to see the access that Rachel Boynten was granted thoughout her several years of filming; multple coutries, oil COO's&CEO's, guerilla militant groups, African political and religous figures, and the people affected by them.

This all access pass to Africa was a masterpiece depicting environmentalism, human greed, the need for oil, and corporations.

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Nuclear vs. the World.

Pandora's Promise.

The most controversial film at CIFF, go figure, it was the last film. The placement of this film for the event, along with the Q&A left myself, and much of the audience wondering...

Is nuclear the way? Or was this film biased. It seemed to touch little on alternative energy sources other than nuclear. It certianly brought to light the strugles with coal, oil, natural gas, but did it give us a solution? Or, just a radical idea in the future of energy. With much more research to go, this film showed the other side of the environmentalistic coin.

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What do you want to happen to you after you die?

A Will For the Woods

Taboo and socially questionable: green buriels. Insight into the last years of a mans life, his struggles with and acceptance with death, and his relationship with the land. This film truely shows the intimacies of a human life, their beliefs, values, emotions and relationships.

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Pickets and Picks, The battle for coal miners' rights.

Harlan County USA

This documentary masterfully portrayed the lives, stuggles, and unions formed by coalminers and thair families. Barbara Koppel was able to gain the trsut of the coal miners, while risking her life against the opposing parties. She was on the fontlines of the protests, mines, meetings, and family lives of the miners. She brought to light social issues through a lense of an activist to society.

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Expedition to the End of the World - Official UK trailer

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Made it on the Zoot facebook page with some good company.

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FUCK EVERYTHING BECOMEA PIRATE

Journey To The End Of The World

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Remote Area Medical brought to light the strugles of Americans who don't have acccess to healthcare or medicine. Althoguh this was not a "political" documentary, you can't help but wonder about the governments involvement with the nations healthcare systems, including a future involving Obamacare. Thousands of locals have gone years, even decades without even having a teeth cleaning, eyes exam, mamogram, ANYTHING! This documentary shows us the issues that many americans are going through and how a small group of volunteers makes a signficant impact on a person by providing free health, dental, and vision exams and treamtent.

For more information feel free to visit http://www.ramusa.org.

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In line for Expedition to the End of The World at The Strand.

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Night Labor

Silently simple with complex style to hold the life of a hardworking Downeaster in the frame of a lense. Angles and natural lighting allowed the laymen to get a glimpse of Sherman Frank Merchant's life routine.

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Point North Pitch: What Tomorrow Brings

Education, Women's Rights, Pakistani Government, Taliban, Public Schools, Private Schools and America's departure from the middle east...

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Points North Pitch: The Ocean Doesn't Care

Due to its early stages, I'm curious as to how the directors will able able to have a focus on American tourism in Mexico without diverging too much onto Santos' story: un chico de quince años que vende su cuerpo a los hombres americanos.

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Making everything out of nothing... The power of passion, hope, and the wind.

William and the Windmil

William and The Windmill brought to light the impact that media and money has on the ignorant. William's life drastically changed after his fame from a TED Talk. From there, he left his home in Arusha to go to America. He shortly thereafter signed his life away to a production company who wishes to turn William's book into a movie. All the hype and whirlwind of society engulfed who William was. Hopefully soon he will be able to return to Africa to do what he was meant to do; spread his knowledge and ingenuity to better the lives of his people. 

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"You'll find me amongst the people"-Edhi, These birds walk

These Birds Walk gave insight into the lives of street children in Pakistan, and their caretakers. A young runaway, omar, seemed to be the focus of this film as he find god and himself. Omar's story parallel's an ambulance driver who was saved the kindness he offers on a daily basis to the Edhi Foundation as well as the runaways he picks up off the streets.