Global Peace Film Festival 2008

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Short Documentaries
In Ghana, West Africa, a rural village eagerly awaits a shipment of recycled bicycles from the United States. Inspiring, determined, resourceful, individuals let us into their daily lives in a dramatic look at how lack of transportation can impact the education, health and livelihood of the community. Ayamye is a moving, life-affirming film that proves sustainable solutions to crisis are not always complex.
Short Documentaries
Schuylkill River Park was destined to become Philadelphia 's premier recreational respite until a decades-old freight line stonewalled its access. This is a story of a community's determination to rebuke belligerent big business, which proves to be no match against the power of the people.
Short Documentaries
A thousand-mile bike ride from Portland, Oregon, to Salt Lake City, Utah, highlights endangered wildlands in the Western United States.
Feature Documentaries
Two modern women retrace the travels and exploration of Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings as she and her neighbor Dessie Smith traveled the St. Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers more than 75 years ago. As they do, they help modern Floridians more fully understand the inextricable connection between people and place. Witnessing how others have been shaped by geography can help us appreciate the vital energies still available to us in our environment. These energies can inform our sensibilities and, in the best of worlds, may even lead us to some wisdom about the sustainability of land and water, of people and culture.
Feature Documentaries
The fragile Arctic environment is testimony to the biggest and fastest signs of climate change. This film follows a team from the European Environment Agency who participate in a multisport adventure race across 250 kilometers of Arctic wildness where they encounter the effects of climate change first hand and meet eyewitnesses to the impact of the Arctic environment and the people who it is first effecting. What is happening to the Inuit people today will happen to the rest of the world tomorrow.
Short Documentaries
An adventure in sea kayaking reveals the magnificent seascape of the Sea of Cortez, and the immense threat to the region that occurs with the worldwide problem of over-fishing. This film emphasizes how people are creating solutions and what each of us can do to support sustainable relations with the oceans.
Short Documentaries
Join a young engineering student, Callie Blackwood, on her journey to Kenya with Engineers Without Borders as they try to bring clean drinking water to over 1,000 school children.
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