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CEFF 2021 Film Collections & Events

Public Lands and Parks Collection

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Films Included:

Koa Talking to Me
Songscape: Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge featuring Ben Soliee
Big Gums
Stay Wild
Your Friend, Ranger Doug
A Plea For Refuge
Forever is Now
Blooming Mojave
Public Lands and Parks Q & A

*Click on each film on the right side of the screen to view the full description and production notes below.

A Plea For Refuge - Two adventurous friends, Jeff Shapiro and Cody Tuttle, have a desire to experience one of the last, raw, and truly preserved wilderness areas on the North American continent. Through the attempt to hike and fly paragliders across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the eastern Brooks Range of Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, they gain a necessary and visceral connection with the importance of fiercely protecting its nature.

Year
2020
Runtime
0:30:36
Language
English
Country
United States

Director
Daniel Holmes

9 films in package

Koa Talking To Me

This National Park Service film follows a Hawaiian man's love for one of the rarest and most threatened trees in the world. Junior's connection with koa trees on his native island compels him to conserve and honor the spirt of fallen trees that would normally be waste

Songscape: Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge featuring Ben Sollee

Making music a force for nature - Ben Sollee tackles climate change in this Songscape music video featuring a NJ National Wildlife Refuge.

Big Gums is the story of a slightly odd Australian man who spends the night up a rare tree.

Melissa Wilson moved to St. John, one of America's most wild places. With over half of the island conserved as a national park, the beauty of the landscape inspired a solution for the climate change within the American West. After graduating from Harvard University in Sustainability her thesis continues to foster hope for wild places and wild people.

Your Friend, Ranger Doug

A Plea For Refuge

A first-ever attempt to hike and fly paraglider's across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to gain a necessary and visceral connection with the importance of fiercely protecting its nature.

Blooming Mojave

Blooming Mojave is a feature documentary about climate change and the negative effect it is having on the iconic species, the Joshua Tree. The population of Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National park are being threatened by increasing pollution, rising temperatures, and wildfires. We want to shed light on this important issue and help saves the iconic Mojave desert Joshua Tree, because what would Joshua Tree NP be called without it's Joshua Trees?

Public Lands and Parks Q and A Session

Films Included:

Koa Talking to Me
Songscape: Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge featuring Ben Soliee
Big Gums
Stay Wild
Your Friend, Ranger Doug
A Plea For Refuge
Forever is Now
Blooming Mojave
Public Lands and Parks Q & A

*Click on each film on the right side of the screen to view the full description and production notes below.

A Plea For Refuge - Two adventurous friends, Jeff Shapiro and Cody Tuttle, have a desire to experience one of the last, raw, and truly preserved wilderness areas on the North American continent. Through the attempt to hike and fly paragliders across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the eastern Brooks Range of Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, they gain a necessary and visceral connection with the importance of fiercely protecting its nature.

Year
2020
Runtime
0:30:36
Language
English
Country
United States

Director
Daniel Holmes