About Green Unplugged: This festival aspires to explore the nature that flows without and within us. It wishes to overlap the sound of our cry today with that of nature and hopes to collectively perceive a new path. It intends to contemplate on the environment and the need to co-create future generations with new consciousness. The festival aspires not only to witness the regeneration of the environment—the greater body that nourishes human species—but also to contemplate upon the integra... more

Inspired by his relationship with a Kwaxkwaka'wakw elder, the filmmaker embarks upon a cinematic journey contrasting the tree-farms that dominate the landscape surrounding his home with an ancient rainforest on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Guided by passion and a determination to honor reality, Boyce travels to the most remote corner of Vancouver Island, through some of the most intensive logging on the planet, into a wilderness that is on the brink of extinction. Massive trees, ranging in ag... more

Occupied Cascadia is a documentary film both journalistic and expressionistic. Exploring the emerging understanding of bioregionalism within the lands and waters of the Northeast Pacific Rim, the filmmakers interweave intimate landscape portraits with human voices both ideological and indigenous. Stories from the land contrast critique of dominant culture, while an embrace of the radical unknown informs a re-birthed and growing culture of resistance. Filming began during the outset of the populis... more

The Mekong River is a massive ecosystem that is the lifeline for more than 60 million people across six countries: China, Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. For the people in the Lower Mekong Basin, it provides more fish to more people than any other river in the world. With an estimated commercial value exceeding US$2 billion per year, its the worlds most valuable inland fishery. At the same time, more than 184 hydropower dams are currently planned, under construction o... more

This is a personal story of one small woman’s fight to save one of the planet’s largest animals. Lek has saved hundreds of Asian Elephants from abuse, street begging and hardship over the past 20 years. Working from a remote village in Northern Thailand, she continues her dangerous work despite obstacles and death threats. Running this sanctuary, Lek has devoted her life to saving this animal. As experts predict the Asian Elephant faces extinction within four decades, her work is needed now mor... more

From 2009 to 2011, under a total secrecy, Professor Séralini and the CRIIGEN* led an experiment on a genetically modified organism** and the herbicide Roundup. The conclusions are appalling… After Chernobyl’s disaster, the invisible radioactivity reappeared in March 2011 with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. GMOs & NUCLEAR POWER: We use and accept these technologies without medical or environmental independent tests. Are all of us guinea-pigs now? *Committee for Research an... more

Our planet’s economic and environmental future hangs on an unlikely thread: the clothesline. British filmmaker Steven Lake criss-crosses the world to unravel the reasons and consequences for banishing the clotheslines in favour of tumble dryers. Corporate America sold the world an electric dream, replacing simple centuries-old outdoors line-drying with the electricity-hungry dryer. As a consequence, the demand for coal, and energy consumption across the globe has rapidl... more