Filmmakers in attendance
Net Positiva
(USA, Chile) RT 11 Mins
Directors: Peter Cambor and Ian McGee
Producers: Peter Cambor and Ian McGee
Starring: Kevin Ahearn, David Stover, Ben Kneppers
Description: Discarded fishnets are responsible for 10% of the oceans' plastic pollution. In the documentary short NET POSITIVA, three friends set out to eliminate these derelict nets by utilizing them a surprising and inventive way. Their journey takes them to Chile, where they establish a groundbreaking recycling program that has the potential to make waves in the global fight against oceanic plastic pollution. Net Positiva illustrates how innovative solutions to environmental problems do exist and are capable of having a lasting and powerful global impact.
CO Premiere
Keeper's of the Beat
(USA) RT 18 Mins
Director: Donald O'Brien
Producer: Jerry Freilich
Starring:Dr. Jon Riedel
Description: Geologist Dr. Jon Riedel eats, sleeps, and breathes glaciers. They are high, hard-to-reach, and hard to study. Keepers of the Beat follows Jon and his work studying glaciers and climate change at North Cascades National Park.
A Wolf's Place(USA) RT 16 Mins
Director: Annie White
Writer: Annie White
Producer: Annie White
Description: Twenty years after their reintroduction wild wolves have made a remarkable comeback. But as new hunting seasons open and politicians push to remove all protections across the US, gray wolves stand on the edge of a precipice. "A Wolf’s Place" explores the impact wolves can have on an entire ecosystem, and dives into the personal side of large carnivore conservation through the story of Wolf 10, the first wild wolf released into Yellowstone in over 70 years – his triumphant life and tragic death in the sights of a poacher’s gun.
A Bottle's OdysseyRT 1 Min
Director: Nik Kleverov
Writer: Nik Kleverov
Producer: Nik Kleverov
Starring: David Brackett
Description: A Plastic bottle goes on an epic odyssey to find its way back to its owner.
CO Premiere
The Fire Line: Wildfire in Colorado
(USA) RT 28 Mins
Director: Meghan Lyden
Producer: Mahala Gaylord, Helen Richardson, Aaron Ontiveroz
Four times in four years, wind-fanned flames raced through Colorado neighborhoods in and at the edge of dying forests, killing people and breaking records for destruction. And because more than 100,000 people in the last decade have moved into "red-zone" areas primed for conflagration by a century of fire suppression, no one is sure that the devastating fires of 2012 and 2013 will not be repeated.
