Mountainfilm 2006 Official Selection Global Focus—The New Environmentalists John Antonelli, Tom Dusenbery & Will Parrinello
Congo Chief botanist of the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Corneille E. N. Ewango stayed during civil war to protect the reserve’s rare animals and plants and confronted military commanders to stop poaching. Honduras Despite death threats and harassment, Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez of Honduras organized and led marches to pressure the government to stop the illegal logging that is plaguing communities in central Honduras. Ukraine As a young lawyer in the Ukraine, Olya Melen successfully stopped construction on a deep-water shipping channel that would have destroyed fragile ecosystems in the heart of the Danube Delta, one of the most valuable wetlands in the world. Papua New Guinea Anne Kajir won a precedent-setting lawsuit on landholder rights against a global timber company that conducted large-scale, illegal logging in the largest remaining intact block of tropical forests in Papua New Guinea. USA Craig E. Williams formed a nationwide grassroots coalition against the incineration of chemical weapons stored in the United States and convinced the Pentagon to halt incineration plans at four major chemical weapons stockpiles. Brazil Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva documented extensive illegal logging in his native Brazil and helped a grassroots environmental coalition create the world’s largest group of protected tropical forest regions. Together with indigenous lands, a 240,000-square-kilometer corridor of forest was protected. Photo © Andy Black Scheduled Show Times & Locations
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Robert Redford narrates the portraits of passionate and dedicated individuals who have risked much to stand up to government powers, corporate interests and other rivals on behalf of the Earth’s well being.