Patagonia Wild and Scenic
Environmental Film Festival
April 20, 2008

Oregon Zoo is pleased to partnering with the Wildlands Project to host the Patagonia Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on April 20.

During the day, along with our Party for the Planet earth day activities, we’ll have two showings of a special family-oriented film program. Then at 7 p.m., we’ll feature The Edge of Eden: Living with Grizzlies. (see film descriptions below)

Tickets are only $5 for adults, $3 for kids.

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FILM DESCRIPTION: Family Program
12-1 p.m. and 2-3 p.m.

Antarctica ... the End? - 10min.

Sam Lowe-Anker

Seen through the eyes and voice of a 13-year-old boy, Antarctica looks at how climate change and human impact is affecting the frozen continent. Best Youth Environmental Film, Telluride MountainFilm, 2006 (USA, 2006, 10min) www.savethewhales.org, www.savethealbatross.org, www.stopglobalwarming.org.

Carpa Diem - 2min.

Sergio Cannella

Before sleeping, a child in her apartment is lovingly watching a fish in the aquarium. In the meantime her younger brother is being mindless of the open tap the water flowing out of the washbasin ... a waste that could turn into a tragedy. Many awards,including: Best Short, Vatavaran FF; Best Spot, Festival International Du Film Sur L’Énergie de Lausanne. (Italy, 2006, 2min) www.sergiocannella.it

Feed the Worms - 6min.

Philip Hassan

Local students at Scotten School answer the question, “how can you help the environment?”
(USA, 2007, 6min)

Hawaii Reef Etiquette - 8min.

Ziggy Livnat

With the spirit of Aloha, learn how to enjoy, respect, and preserve the Hawaiian reefs. This PSA encourages action and shows viewers that one can make a difference. Best PSA, International Wildlife Film Festival. (USA, 2005, 8min) www.forthesea.com

Not Just Mine: Kids and Plovers on the Beach - 12min.

Joe Golling

Lucas is a procrastinating schoolboy trying to make the grade. He learns about the predicament of the small shorebird, the Western Snowy Plover, and finds the enthusiasm within himself to help make a positive change for the bird and for the beach they both share. (USA, 2007, 12min) www.westernsnowyplover.com

Rita - 6min.

Alison Teal Blehert-Koehn

This film is a true story about Alison, a seven-year-old girl who has been dragged around the world by her adventure travel guide/photographer/yoga-teaching parents and longs to be a kid and stay in one place long enough to have friends and go to school with children her own age. Unexpectedly, during one of the family’s expeditions high in the Himalaya of Nepal, she befriends a seven-year-old Sherpa girl named Rita. Alison sneaks out to join Rita and they embark on a wild and touching adventure over an 18,000 ft. pass near the base of Mt. Everest--a journey that plops them right in Alison’s dream world. Kids Choice, Telluride Mountainfilm, Best Family Short, Boulder Adventure FF, Nomintated for MTV Movie Award.
(USA, 2006, 6min) www.alisonteal.com

Water Loving Doggies - 5min.

River Mon

There are places in this world and moments in time when PARADISE does exist ... join some furry friends down on the Yuba. (USA, 2007, 5min)

FILM DESCRIPTION: Evening Program
7 p.m.

The Edge of Eden: Living with Grizzlies

Grizzly bears are considered by many to be the most dangerous animal in the world. But there is one man, Canadian Charlie Russell, who thinks differently. He believes that grizzlies are misunderstood animals and that our fear of them is not only unnecessary but driving them to extinction. His beliefs have taken him to Russia, where he has raised orphaned grizzly bear cubs for the past ten years in the wilderness of the Southern Kamchatka Peninsula. Multiple awards.