April 25 North Lake Tahoe/Truckee Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

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Patagonia Wild & Scenic Film Festival screening a part of Earth Day Festival

Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Foundation announces the return of the Patagonia Wild and Scenic Film Festival as part of this year's Earth Day celebration. Last years near-capacity attendance spawned the growth to two venues this year: Bar One and Plaza Bar at Squaw Valley USA.

The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival sits apart from the hundreds of festivals around the world by leaving you feeling INSPIRED and MOTIVATED to go out and make a difference in your community and the world. It's an evening of thought-provoking and often hilarious shorts you won't want to miss.

Doors open at 6pm, films start at 7pm. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door and are available at New Moon Natural Foods in Truckee and Tahoe City, and Alice's Market in Squaw Valley USA. A raffle will be held with lots of great prizes.

A complete schedule can be found at www.TahoeTruckeeEarthDay.org

About the Patagonia Wild and Scenic Film Festival
The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival supports the critical work of California's most effective watershed protection organization, the South Yuba River Citizens League. SYRCL has a 23-year history of protecting the Yuba Watershed from dams, inspiring the community to become and stay involved in river issues and restoring our watershed to support healthy, wild salmon populations. Their effectiveness as an organization is based on our ability to engage people on environmental issues that affect their lives. The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a natural extension of our work to inspire people to act on behalf of the environment.

Kick-Off Party To Follow: VIP party with Shotgun Wedding Quintet at Zenbu. $10 for festival-goers, $15 general.


Film Descriptions

Alive
Lucy Blackwell
Two insects are born into a luscious alive world of food. As they explore their home, they realize they are living inside a tiny bubble. And then one of the insects decides to escape! (US, 2006, Animation, 3min) www.upsidedownit.com

Backwards Hamburger
Free Range Graphics
Do you want lies with that? After seeing this animated short you’ll think twice about eating that fast food hamburger. (US, 2006, Animation, 2:40min) www.freerangegraphics.com

Birdsong & Coffee: A Wake Up Call
Anne Macksoud
What is the natural organic connection between coffee farmers, coffee drinkers, and birds? Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn that they hold in their hands the fate of farm families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions. In this film we hear from experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers, and the coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are inextricably linked, economically and environmentally. Cine Golden Eagle Award 2006 (US, 2006, Documentary, 56min) www.communityagroecology.net; www.olddogdocumentaries.com

Dream People of the Amazon
Larry Lansburgh
In the early 1990s the Amazonian Achuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador learned about the outside world’s desire for the oil under their territory. The elders of the tribe had been having similar, telling dreams and the interpretation was stunning: if the Achuar people were to defend themselves and the land from oil operations, they would need to seek alliances in the very world that was about to destroy them. (US/Ecuador, 2005, Documentary, 32min)

Exploring the Mother of Waters
Mick O’Shea, Brian Eustis
Known throughout much of it’s basin as ‘Mae Nam Khong’ which, in English means ‘Kong, Mother of Waters’, the Mekong Basin, is one of the worlds most diverse environments and until the making of this film significant portions of the river remained neither navigated, explored or filmed at ground level. This film uses the historic first full exploration of the river by boater Mick O’Shea from the source in Tibet to South China as a medium through which to expose the natural and cultural wonders of the region and the more pressing issues that threaten its future. (Australia, 2006, Adventure/Environmental Documentary, 43:30min) www.mekongdescentfoundation.org

The Mouth Revolution
Free Range Graphics
Tired of blindly following the brains, mouths revolt worldwide, refusing to eat any more garbage. Viva la Mouthalucion! Starring upside down chins.(US, 2006, Animation, 5min) www.freerangegraphics.com

Nomads: Wandering Women of the Whitewater Tribe
Polly Green, Chris Emerick
Follow the travels of three whitewater kayaking women as they paddle the Zambezi and White Nile Rivers of Africa. Along the way they are unexpectedly touched by a small village in Uganda struggling with the realities of malaria. The river has empowered these women to make a difference. Best Social Action Adventure Film, Tahoe/Reno International Film Festival; Finalist, Best Film on Mountain Culture and Environment, Wanaka Mountain Film Festival (US, 2004, Adventure Documentary, 21min) www.pollyhgreen.com; www.softpowerhealth.org

Paving Shangri-La
Andrew Stevenson
The Annapurna Himals of Nepal are home to 120,000 subsistence farmers. Here is a more authentic Tibetan world than exists in Chinese-occupied Tibet. The absence of roads in this culturally rich and scenic area has made the Annapurnas one of the world’s most popular trekking destinations. But highways reaching into this pristine region threaten a vulnerable culture and ecologically fragile environment. Honorable Mention Bermuda International Film Festival (Bermuda, 2005, Adventure/Environmental Documentary, 15min) www.awstevenson.com

Range Wars Rage On
Range Wars Rage On, Sierra Club Chronicles
Sierra Club Productions, Richard Ray Perez, Robert Greenwald, Molly O’Brien
In the West, The Bureau of Land Management has allowed increased drilling and practices that are killing ranchers’ cattle. A traditional New Mexico ranching couple led their cattle up a slope, past a natural gas drilling platform and around industrial equipment that occupies the once-pristine public land where their cattle used to graze undisturbed. Now they can’t believe what they see: a natural gas clean up crew ripping the lining of a waste pit, allowing toxic, industrial waste water to seep into the land. (US, 2006, Documentary, 30min) www.sierraclub.org/tv/

Returning Home
Kevin White
In 1986 a barge from the APEX oil company spilled almost 20,000 gallons of oil off the coast of California between San Francisco and Monterey. The spill killed an estimated 10,000 seabirds, including 6,300 Common Murres. By 1988 the Murr disappeared from its breeding colony on Devil’s Slide Rock. This film documents the innovative restoration efforts to bring the Murre back to life. Merit Award for Storytelling, Int’l Wildlife Film Festival. (US, 2005, Documentary, 24min) www.fullframeprod.com

Salmon & Steelhead: A Time for Recovery
Marla Morrissey, Joe Golling
These powerful fish are born in the river, then travel to the ocean to grow to full size before making the journey back up the river of their birth to reach the spawning grounds before they die. Unfortunately, populations of both salmon and steelhead are dangerously low. This wonderfully animated film illustrates the life of these amazing fish and speaks to the restoration efforts around them. (US, 2005, Animation, 14:38min) www.steelheadrecovery.org