Uta Jürgens reflects on the links between environmental and animal welfare in her response to The Ghosts in Our Machine, which screened at Yale’s 2014 Environmental Film Festival.
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Tourist Trap
Gringo Trails, which screened at this month’s Environmental Film Festival at Yale, explores how tourist destinations can be both a blessing and a curse.
A Very Human Struggle: The Making of a Different Kind of Documentary
Noah Sokol sits down with one of the co-directors of the new documentary ELEMENTAL, which screened recently at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale. They get to talking about capturing the human side of activism, and the personal toll commitment to a cause can exact.
Review: The Whale
arrived at the theater a little early. There were good seats left at the front, and the crowd – an older, calmer population than I am used to – was chatting and milling about contentedly. I expected this to be a routine assignment: show up, watch a movie, write a digestible review. What I didn’t know then, as I settled […]
Review: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Big Boys Gone Bananas!* documents the year-long battle between film director Fredrik Gertten and the crushing public relations and legal force of Dole Food Company. “If you have mighty enemies, then you need many friends,” said Gertten when introduced to the audience. He founded and heads a four-person film production company in Malmö, Sweden. Dole oversees 36,000 full-time employees worldwide […]