Documentary of an epic project bringing canoeing to the Amazon.

Documentary of an epic project bringing canoeing to the Amazon. The trials and tribulations of getting canoes there and then canoeing the Alta Madre de Dios River in the Peruvian Amazon. It's a story about effort and life in an isolated part of the world experiencing great change.

Adam Thorn, wildlife expert, explorer and adventurer goes in search of an animal so elusive and so bizarre, most people wouldn’t even know it existed. Imagine an animal with the prehensile tail of a monkey, the claws of a cat and the head of a bear! Thorn ventures deep into the jungles of Borneo in search of this strange creature and finds many fascinating animals along the way.

The Bearcat of Borneo

Adam Thorn, wildlife expert, explorer and adventurer goes in search of an animal so elusive and so bizarre, most people wouldn’t even know it existed. Imagine an animal with the prehensile tail of a monkey, the claws of a cat and the head of a bear! Thorn ventures deep into the jungles of Borneo in search of this strange creature and finds many fascinating animals along the way.

The Tale of the Tapir

Adam Thorn, wildlife expert, explorer and adventurer treks deep into the oldest jungle on the planet in search of one the most shy and weirdest beasts the rainforest has to offer. Thorn explorers untouched wilderness and comes across many more awesome animals.

Northern Mozambique is one of the last unspoilt wilderness area's in Africa.

Northern Mozambique is one of the last unspoilt wilderness area’s in Africa. The situation for the elephant population is dire, especially in Taratibu, in the Quirimbas,  where today there are only around 200 remaining.

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The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration.

A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012, has won acclaim at festivals around the world, and in 2013 begins theatrical release as well as educational distribution and use by environmental groups and grassroots activists.

Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like Edward O. Wilson, A FIERCE GREEN FIRE chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future – and succeeding against all odds.

The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central story and character:

  • 1 David Brower and the Sierra Club’s battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon
  • 2 Lois Gibbs and Love Canal residents’ struggle against 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals
  • 3 Paul Watson and Greenpeace’s campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals
  • 4 Chico Mendes and Brazilian rubbertappers’ fight to save the Amazon rainforest
  • 5 Bill McKibben and the 25-year effort to address the impossible issue – climate change

Surrounding these main stories are strands like environmental justice, going back to the land, and movements of the global south such as Chipko in India and Wangari Maathai in Kenya. Vivid archival film brings it all back and insightful interviews shed light on the events and what they mean. The film offers a deeper view of environmentalism as civilizational change, bringing our industrial society into a sustainable balance with nature.

Featured in the film are:

  •  the incomparable Lois Gibbs, still fighting for all the Loises
  •  Paul “I work for whales” Watson
  •  Bill McKibben, author, activist and founder of 350.org
  •  leaders like David Brower, Chico Mendes and Wangari Matthai captured on archival film
  •  Paul Hawken, Stewart Brand and other alternative ecology visionaries
  •  Carl Pope and John Adams, longtime heads of the Sierra Club and NRDC
  •  Martin Litton, at 92 still thundering about how you’ve got to have “hatred in your heart”
  •  Bob Bullard, environmental justice advocate, who closes the film on a universal note, saying, “There’s no Hispanic air. There’s no African-American air. There’s air! And if you breathe air—and most people I know do breathe air—then I would consider you an environmentalist.

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