by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 23, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Text by Carolyn Crane Photos by Tony Finnerty Nevada City, California Last January 16, about a hundred people filled the meeting room in City Hall to participate in an activist workshop about the honeybee. The workshop, one of several at the Wild and Scenic Film...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
FIlmmaker Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years canvassing the nation in search of young farmers. From Vermont to California, Mississippi to New York, The Greenhorns explores the advantages and challenges of being a young farmer today. She takes us to meet a...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.” — Tom Robbins What do you get when you mix an original, eclectic soundtrack, snippets of Victorian-style animation, documentary footage, tiny action figures, and organic...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 12, 2011 | Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
The Grande Ronde Model Watershed is one of Oregon’s oldest watershed councils. The organization works to improve watershed health and protect the salmon and the steelhead that were once prolific there. The Best Country tells the story of how one river in the...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 10, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Antonio Roman-Alcala is a man In Search of Good Food. The young San Franciscan begins at home and brings his audience with him on a statewide journey to understand how to make it easier for Californians to obtain good food. Roman-Alcala blends informal street...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 9, 2011 | Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Currently, “there are an estimated seventy-five thousand dams in the United States. We have been building, on average, one large dam a day, every day, since the Declaration of Independence.” Trout on the Wind, The Hemlock Dam Removal Story offers us a helpful case...
