Recommended Films
Addicted To Plastic
bullfrogfilms
Director: Ian Connacher;
Produced by Cryptic Moth Productions
bullfrogfilms.com
Eye-opening and entertaining, this film examines the world wide use and disposal of petroleum based plastics in three parts. The first part takes us through the history of plastics manufacturing, its chemical composition, and inability to biodegrade. Part two shows the massive environmental impact of plastics disposal on our food chain and our planet. We journey to the Pacific Ocean vortex where discarded plastic items have accumulated to form a mass twice the size of the state of Texas.
Part three explores possible solutions ranging from various recycled uses, to converting to 100% biodegradable starch based plastics.
The World According To Monsanto
Independent Film
Director: Marie-Monique Robin
twilightearth.com
Wow!!! What can you say about Monsanto? Everyone should see this film.
Garbage Warrior
Presented by: Open Eye Media U.K., ITVS International, and Sundance Channel
Documentary
Director: Oliver Hodge
www.garbagewarrior.com
This film follows the triumphs and frustrations of renegade architect, and visionary, Michael Reynolds. Recognized as the pioneer of "Earthship Biotecture", Reynolds and his team have been building self-sufficient, off the grid communities in New Mexico and abroad for the past 30 years. Follow Reynolds to Washington D.C. as he attempts to lobby a semi comatose Congress for the right to create a sustainable living test site.
Manufactured Landscapes
Zeitgeist Films
Documentary
Director: Jennifer Baichwal;
Photography: Edward Burtynsky
www.zeitgeistfilms.com
Visually stunning and deeply disturbing. Award-winning director Jennifer Baichwal follows internationally acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky to China as he captures on film the massive scale of the environmental impact of the country’s runaway industrial revolution.
Burning the Future: Coal in America
Independent Film
Writer/Director: David Novack
www.burningthefuture.org
Writer/Director David Novack exposes the U.S. coal industry’s practice of mountaintop removal for so-called “clean coal” and its devastating effects on the environment, and on the health and welfare of the citizens of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Sony Pictures
Writer/Director: Chris Paine
www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com
An instant classic, this film takes us through the creation, recall, and ultimate destruction of GM’s EV-1 and Honda’s EV-Plus electric cars.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Brave New Films
Director: Robert Greenwald
www.walmartmovie.com
Enormous in scope, Director Robert Greenwald’s film examines the human and environmental impact created by the retail giant, as well as its staggering cost to the American taxpayer.
