Exhibition | Fiscal Sponsorship | Resources


PAST EXHIBITIONS

Highlighted film titles link to SFIFF pages that contain film synopses, credits, print sources, running times and countries of origin.

Age of Stupid
An archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) on the dying planet Earth circa 2055 looks back at our species’ current reluctance to address climate change in this cautionary, pre-apocalyptic tale that blends verité storytelling, cutting-edge graphics and gallows humor.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 540
Website: http://www.ageofstupid.net/

All in This Tea
Tea importer David Lee Hoffman travels throughout China—sometimes on foot—in search of handcrafted premium teas.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 SFIFF
Attendance: 937
Youth Ed Attendance: 80
Website: www.lesblank.com/more/TeaFilm.html

Battle for Terra
With an all-star vocal cast and lush CGI animation, this family-friendly film offers sci-fi action with a social conscience. When Earthlings try to make the peaceful planet of Terra their new home, it becomes a desperate fight for survival. Recommended for ages seven and up.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 568
Website: http://www.battleforterra.com/

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
This enchanting animated film is like a majestic watercolor painting come to life, pitting Man against Beast in a tale of maternal love, family bonds, animal instinct and basic survival.
SFFS Exhibition: 2004 SFIFF
Attendance: 464

Crude
This lively and gripping documentary follows the shifting course of a lawsuit brought by 30,000 Ecuadoreans against Chevron over its responsibility for the country’s contaminated waters and streams.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 1,108
Website: http://www.crudethemovie.com/

Everything’s Cool
Remember not so long ago when global warming was a virtual non-issue, a scientific theory largely unknown to the masses?
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 SFIFF
Attendance: 756
Youth Ed Attendance: 352
Website: www.everythingscool.org/
 
Flow: For Love of Water
Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 746
Youth Ed Attendance: 22
Website: www.flowthefilm.com/
 
Goldman Environmental Prize Documentary
Mill Valley Film Group teams up with Robert Redford to highlight Goldman Environmental Prize Winners “Global Focus III –The New Environmentalists,” a 30-minute documentary featuring intimate portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists from around the world.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 Youth Ed
Attendance: 128
Website: www.goldmanprize.org/
 
Ice People
It has been months since the sun has risen over the icy, almost otherworldly terrain of the Antarctic.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 368
Website: www.icepeople.com/

Modern Life
Raymond Depardon has been documenting the changing face of rural France in his Profils Paysans series. Modern Life combines his flair for widescreen shots and the perfect light with his patience for the kitchen interview, and always, his love for his subjects.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 477
Website: http://modernlifethefilm.com/

Real Dirt on Farmer John
Bay Area director Taggert Siegel’s film takes a look at Peterson’s life as a farmer, writer and artist and the high cost he’s paid for being “different.”
SFFS Exhibition: 2005 SFIFF
Attendance: 486
Website: www.pbs.org/independentlens/realdirt/

Sea Change
Is it too late to save the ocean? Grandfather and environmentalist Sven Huseby was stunned to discover in a New Yorker article that ocean acidification and global warming is threatening life under the sea.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 460
Website: http://aseachange.net/

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
The dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 Youth Ed
Attendance: 193
Website: takingrootfilm.com/
 
Unforeseen
The Unforeseen chronicles the battle among well-intentioned but misguided housing developer Gary Bradley, the developers, the environmental activists (including Robert Redford, who learned to swim in Barton Springs), politicians and property owners.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 SFIFF
Attendance: 518
Youth Ed Attendance: 24
Website: theunforeseenfilm.com/blog/trailer/
 
Up the Yangtze
Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang displays a lyrical eye for landscape and detail that doesn’t shy from hard truths. His haunting film leaves us mourning what is lost and wondering what is gained as the imminent completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam, one of the biggest and most controversial engineering projects in human history.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 651
Youth Ed Attendance: 86
Website: www3.nfb.ca/webextension/up-the-yangtze/
 
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Fashioned like a tongue-in-cheek murder mystery, Who Killed the Electric Car? sets out to uncover just who is responsible for the demise of this ill-fated vehicle.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 542
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
 
Winged Migration
Hearing the honking of geese, we scan the sky, wondering where the birds are headed. This superbly photographed film puts us up there with our avian neighbors as they migrate to their breeding grounds in the northern forests and arctic tundra.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 Youth Ed
Attendance: 127
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/wingedmigration/home.html

FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

HIghlighted film titles link to sffs.org "Current Projects" pages, alphabetically listing SFFS fiscally sponsored films, containing synopses and website links where available. Below each title is the filmmaker's name.

Butterflies & Bulldozers
Steve Dunsky
 
Connected(previously Seed)
Tiffany Shlain
 
Forgetting Vietnam
Trinh T. Minh-ha
 
The Greening(Environmental History Project
Mark Kitchell
 
Letting in the Jungle: The Urban Wildlife Movement
Jesse Achtenberg

The Next, Best West
Darren Campbell

Peak Moment Television
Janaia Donaldson
 
River of Renewal: A Native Journey
Stephen Most
 
Telos
Kyung Lee
 
The River Why
Kristi Denton-Cohen
 
Vanishing..or Khanty of Melting Siberia
Oxana Chumak


RESOURCES

The following list of resources offers interested audience members more information and ways to become involved in Environment.

Alliance for Climate Protection

Amazon Watch

Apollo Alliance

Bay Area Air Quality Managment

Bay Area Re-locatize

Climate Group

Climate Change Education

Earth First

Earth Rights Internation

Earth Team

Energy Foundation

Green Action

Green City Project

Greenpeace

Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Natural Resource Defense Council

Rails-to-Trails Conservatory

Rainforest Foundation Fund

Redefining Progress

San Francisco Foundation

Sierra Club

Sustainable Earth Initiative

Urban Alliance for Sustainable Earth

Urban Ecology, Inc.

Urban Habitat

Youth United for Community Action