ENVIRONMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM
Some of the best environmental shorts from around the world. Covering a range of issues from food sustainability, to deforestation and water restoration efforts. These stories naturally overlap with Indigenous populations that are at the forefront of the fight for a clean, sustainable and safe environmental future.
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Presented in Multiple Parts
GREEN OCEAN GOLD
This film explores seaweed plastics, a nuanced technology that is on the brink of transforming an industry and...
17 min | Olaf Lawrence | | WORLD PREMIERE | English
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GRUB
American loathe insects. We hate them. We swat them. We spend millions to annihilate them. But over the last f...
14 min | Carleen L. Hsu | | WORLD PREMIERE | English
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LOVE THE ISLAND
For more than 30 years, fisherman João Alfredo da Silva, 63, has dedicated his life to collecting garbage fro...
5 min | Isabela Alves | HAWAI‘I PREMIERE
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THE SALMON FOREST PROJECT
The Salmon Forest paints a haunting portrait of a threatened ecosystem and those who care deeply for it.
In t...
27 min | Bill Heath | | US PREMIERE | English
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TURNING THE TIDE – MĀTAURANGA-LED RESTORATION
Our marine environment is facing enormous pressure from human activities such as excess sediment, nutrients, a...
12 min | Magnolia Lowe | | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | English, Maori
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INDAI APAI DARAH (MOTHER, FATHER, BLOOD)
Throughout the island of Borneo, an explosion of palm oil plantations has led to mass deforestation and forced...
15 min | Kynan Tegar | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | Bahasa Indonesia | English
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TERRA MATER
Technology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, ...
10 min | Kantarama, Gahigiri | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English, Swahili | English
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ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (MEET ME AT THE CREEK)
Cherokee elders, like Rebecca Jim, believe that what happens to the water happens to us. Without it, we cannot...
10 min | Loren Waters | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English
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