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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.