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Planet In Focus
Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) is an incorporated not-for-profit film festival and registered charitable organization, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) is an incorporated not-for-profit film festival and registered charitable organization, founded in 1999, by Mark Haslam. PIF is currently run by a volunteer Board of Directors and a small staff including Executive Director, Katherine Bruce, Programs Director, Alessandra Cannito, Programmers Julian Carrington and Lesley Johnson, and Pre-Screeners, Ron Ma, Hui 'Jane' Wang, Gesila Azorbo, Michael John Long, and Gabriela Aguilar. Planet in Focus operates year-round to produce the annual film festival in October, as well as year round programs such as the Cross Canada Campus Tour, Green School Tours and Eco-Film Lab filmmaking workshop for elementary students. PIF grants yearly Eco-Hero Awards, and patrons include David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ric O'Barry
Richard "Ric" O'Barry (born Richard Barry O'Feldman; October 14, 1939) is an American animal rights activist and former animal trainer who was first recognized in the 1960s for capturing and training the five dolphins that were used in the TV series '' Flipper''. O'Barry transitioned from training dolphins to instead advocating against industries that keep dolphins in captivity, after one of the ''Flipper'' dolphins died. In 1996, a dolphin was seized from the Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary, a corporation O'Barry worked for, for violating the Animal Welfare Act of 1966. In 1999, O'Barry was fined for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act as the result of illegally releasing two dolphins that were not able to survive in the wild.https://www.animallaw.info/case/matter-richard-obarry , In the Matter of: Richard O'Barry, Lloyd A. Good, III, Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary, Inc., The Dolphin Project, Inc., Respondents The dolphins sustained life-threatening injuries. In 1970, O'Barry f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Water (documentary)
''One Water'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi. The film premiered at the 2008 Miami International Film Festival on 22 February 2008. Film ''One Water'' is a collaborative project initiated in 2003 at the University of Miami between the School of Communication, College of Engineering and the Frost School of Music to address the global freshwater crisis. At the heart of the project was the motion picture ''One Water''. An early short version of the picture was screened at the 12th and 13th sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in New York. A feature version was completed in 2008 and premiered at the Miami International Film Festival. The 68-minute movie was shot in 14 countries and features long tracts of visual storytelling over music and natural sound without words, interspersed with interviews with prominent people, including the Dalai Lama, Vandana Shiva, Robert Kennedy Jr., Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Oscar Olive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Collett
Nathan Collett is a filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. Film career Overview Collett's work focuses on those on the margins of society as well as on environmental issues. He has filmed across the world, including location footage in Somalia and South America. He works both in fictional films and on documentaries, with a specific focus on Kibera in Kenya, Africa's largest shantytown. He is a co-owner of Hot Sun Films, a film/video production and training company. One of Hot Sun Films' projects is the Hot Sun Foundation, a non-profit organization. The organization gives training to the youth of Kibera in film and video, and also started the first film school for local youngsters. Ukwelii Films ''The Oath'' ''The Oath'' is a 2005 in film, 2005 short film, short drama film written by Collett and Njuguna W ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mat Hames
Mat Hames is an Emmy-Winning American independent filmmaker known for the PBS and Prime Video documentary series ''Power Trip: the Story of Energy'', as well as his Independent Lens documentaries ''When I Rise'' and ''What Was Ours''. He was knighted by King Albert II for his documentary film about Belgian Resistance escape lines in World War II ''Last Best Hope''. He directed the Rooster Teeth RTDocs Series including ''Common Ground'', ''Waiting for the Punchline'', ''Why We're Here: 15 Years of Rooster Teeth'', ''The Meme Machine'', and ''Connected''. His films have been part of the Emmy-Winning U.S. PBS series Independent Lens, SundanceTV, and Amazon Prime. He is a founder of Austin documentary production company Alpheus Media. Alpheus Media, Inc. has also created advertising campaigns for clients including Johns Hopkins, as well as films for the Atlantic Magazine, museums, non-profits, healthcare organizations and Global NGOs. A portion of their interviews with more than 250 canc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Hirvonen
Elina Hirvonen (born 1975, Helsinki) is a Finnish writer, journalist and documentary film-maker. She was educated at the Helsinki University of Art and Design, and also the University of Turku, where she studied literature in the Faculty of Humanities. Hirvonen's first novel ''Että hän muistaisi saman'' (''When I Forgot'') was first published in Finland in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize. In 2006 an Italian translation was published (''Ricordati'') by an independent publishing company''Scritturapura Editore''. An English translation by Douglas Robinson was published by Portobello Books in November 2007, with an American edition by Tin House Books in May 2009. Hirvonen's second novel, ''Kauimpana kuolemasta'', was published in 2010. She wrote the novel in Lusaka Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Muñoz (director)
David Muñoz was born in 1968 in Málaga, Andalucia, southern Spain and is a Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter. Biography He has a PhD in Financial Economics. He also worked as a financial adviser to several regional governments in Spain, and as a professor of financial applications for professionals. In 2000, he founded Hibrida: a multidisciplinary communications company involved in contemporary culture and social issues. He has been Hibrida's director since its inception. Film career He writes, directs and produces documentary and fiction films. He is the winner of the Goya Awards 2010 for best short documentary given by the Spanish Film Academy for '' Flowers of Rwanda''. His film ''The Infinite Jest'' was a Jury Award 2011 winner for best short documentary in the 7th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival (Qatar). His previous film, ''Another Night on Earth'' won, among others, the Film Critics FIPRESCI award at DOK Leipzig, the best feature documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbrella (film)
''Umbrella'' or Sǎn is a Chinese documentary film directed by Du Haibin and released in 2007. The film documents the experiences of modern rural China, particularly five social groups: students, soldiers, tradespeople, and peasants. Du's stated goal with the film was to highlight the growing disparity between China's prosperous cities and its stagnating countryside. Synopsis ''Umbrella'' is divided into five parts, one for each social group documented. The first takes place in Zhongshan, in Guangdong province at an industrial warehouse where poorly paid workers spend hours putting together umbrellas for sale. In another part of China, in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, a successful farmer has become an entrepreneur, running an umbrella manufacturing business. The film then shifts to Shanghai, as it follows students and recent graduates who struggle to find employment in a hyper-competitive market. The students know that failure to find a job will mean a return to their rural roots. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Bozzo
Sam Bozzo (born February 15, 1969) is an American film director and author. Overview Bozzo wrote, directed, and edited three short films. ''For Which It Stands'' (1990) was screened in the Sundance Film Festival. ''The Shadowed Cry'' (1992) was created as a Top 10 Director assignment for Project Greenlight, run by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. ''Holiday on the Moon'' (1994) won the TriggerStreet.com Short Film competition held at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been screened on the Sundance Channel. Bozzo won a 1994 CINE award for the film. Bozzo has finished two feature documentaries, one on hackers (Hackers Wanted) Archived copy of currently deleted |
World Water Wars
In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a "plurality of worlds". Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In ''scientific cosmology'' the world or universe is commonly defined as " e totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be". '' Theories of modality'', on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. ''Phenomenology'', starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the "horizon of all horizons". In ''philosophy of mind'', the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Notenboom
Bernice Notenboom (born 1 June 1962, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch journalist and film producer, described in several sources as a "professional adventuress" on account of her well publicised expeditions to some of the most environmentally stressed corners of our planet. She has come to wider prominence through her succession of Documentary films, warning against the perils of Global warming. She is a long-standing contributor to National Geographic. In January 2008 she hit the headlines in the Netherlands as the first Dutch woman to travel to the South Pole on skis, an enterprise which involved a ski-trek of several hundred kilometers (>500 miles). The next year she became only the second Dutch woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Life Bernice Notenboom was born in Rotterdam. As a child she fell in love with the mountains during annual family holidays in the Swiss Alps from which, as she later confessed to an interviewer, she always returned to the flatness of her home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
