FILM:
Eccentric Nature
An exciting and revolutionary view of nature, up close and personal. These nature shorts are unlike anything you've ever seen before, or can ever see on your own. SMALLTALK DIARIES - UK, 30min., Dir. Martin Dohrn Two episodes of a series for children (that adults tend to enjoy more than kids) that uses filming techniques honed on nature's blockbusters to introduce children to the daily doings of the mini-beasts that live all around them. WARPED TIME - USA, 60min., Dir. Phil Fairclough Looks at the natural world in extreme ways. Using new slow motion, X-Ray and special lighting, nature is presented in ways we have never seen before.
FILM:
Living With Big Cats
A film about the making of EYE OF THE LEOPARD, telling the story of how these two first class filmmakers, Derek and Beverly Joubert, integrate into the African plains for years in order to reveal the secrets of these wild animals.
FILM:
Lobo: The Wolf that Changed America
LOBO: THE WOLF THAT CHANGED AMERICA tells of Ernest Thompson Seton's quest in the 1890s to capture this legendary and elusive wolf. Widely renowned as a hunter and naturalist, Seton was hired for a huge sum to rid New Mexican ranchlands of the livestock-killing predator. He tracked Lobo with determination for months, and along the way he developed a deep love and respect for the intelligence and loyalty of wolves. After the epic battle between man and animal was concluded, Seton went on to write extensively in defense of the animals and the wilderness of the American Southwest. LOBO is based on his diaries and his book Wild Animals I Have Known. The film is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, who was greatly influenced by Seton's book as a boy. -Jacqueline Spafford
FILM:
Superfish
The hunt for the majestic marlin supplied the dramatic backdrop for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man of the Sea and has launched a thousand sports fishing ships. In this BBC-produced documentary, marine biologist Rick Rosenthal travels the globe in his attempt to swim with the elusive billfish. Gorgeous photography captures the pelagic paradise of giant squids and teams of shimmering schools of feeder fish. In his search to photograph the swordfish, the sailfish, and “the holy grail” marlin, Rosenthal looks first at the nostalgic draw of the hunt and then focuses on the drastic impact of overfishing in the vast global environment of the sea. -Joe Palladino
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