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Two of the films have an environmental/conservation theme revolving around rivers, water and watersheds: "Walking the Green Tiger" and "SPOIL – The Fight to Save the Great Bear Rainforest"
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Waking the Green Tiger
Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in southwestern China. Featuring astonishing archival footage never seen outside China, and interviews with a government insider and witnesses, the documentary also examines Chairman Mao’s campaigns to conquer nature in the name of progress. An environmental movement takes root when a new environmental law is passed and for the first time in China’s history, ordinary citizens have the democratic right to speak out and take part in government decisions. Activists test their freedom to challenge a dam. The movement they trigger could transform China.
2012 Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, Brazil
Official Selection, The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, USA
Official Selection, San Francisco Green Film Festival, USA
2011 Best Canadian Feature Film Award, Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival
2011 Voted Top Ten Canadian Films, Vancouver International Film Festival
SPOIL – The Fight to Save the Great Bear Rainforest
The International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) has teamed up with Pacific WILD, the Gitga’at First Nation of British Columbia, LightHawk, TidesCanada, Save our Seas Foundation, Sierra Club BC, and the Dogwood initiative to carry out a Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia. We are focusing our energy and cameras on this pristine region in response to plans by Enbridge Inc. to build a pipeline for heavy crude oil from the Alberta oil sands across British Columbia to the coast of the Great Bear Rainforest. The oil sands in northern Alberta are arguably one of the world’s most environmentally-devastating extractive industries and the proposed pipeline would put one of our planet’s most ecologically-sensitive and intact marine ecosystems at risk for a catastrophic oil spill through increased mega tanker traffic.
Best film on Mountain Environment, Banff Mountain Film Festival
Best Environmental Film, CINE International Film Festival
Best Environmental Preservation Feature Film, Artivist Film Festival
Best Environmental Film, Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
Best Feature Film, Coastal Voices Film Festival, British Columbia
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