Join us at TRWA's Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Friday, November 11th and Saturday November 12th
Lingo's Room, Brockton Public Library, Main Street Branch
304 Main Street, Brockton, MA
Download our .pdf  Film Festival Flier here.
Join a discussion on Brockton's water history. Enjoy 90 minutes of thought-provoking films. Different films each night. Meet our national and local sponsors and friends over free appetizers, beverages and sweets.
Admission is $7 for one date; $10 for both. For $20 get admission to both nights and a TRWA membership!
Reservations not required but if you can make a commitment we'd appreciate it. Please call 508-828-1101
Take a look at our 2011 film selection! Buy your tickets now… get excited, and be prepared to be inspired
1% for the Planet is a growing global movement of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet. Here’s [a very tiny bit] of the story…
Ben Knight, Travis Rummel | 2009 | 15 min. | USA
Follow a landscaper who shocks his neighbors by putting in native landscaping. Discover a school district that goes green. Meet a non-profit which puts gardens in the city. The projects and approaches highlighted are very low-tech, cheap, and beautiful, making a good argument for kicking back and not raking the leaves or watering the lawn.
Elizabeth Pepin Silva | 2010 | 27 min. | USA
The Story of Bottled Water
Why do Americans buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap? The film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. EthicMark Award, #7 on Viral Video [...]
Free Range Studios | 2010 | 8 min. | USA
The Story of Electronics
Revisit Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution’s collateral damage—6 billion tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. Host Annie Leonard takes viewers from the mines and factories where our gadgets begin to the horrific backyard recycling shops in China where many end up.
Free Range Studios | 2010 | 8 min. | USA
A whimsical, musical documentary about the quirky world of urban agriculture. After filmmaker Ian Cheney plants a garden in the back of his pickup truck, he and the Truck Farm set out to explore the rooftops, barges and windows that represent New York City’s newest edible oases. Can these urban farmers feed a city?
Ian Cheney | 48 min. | US
Two longtime Wallowa Valley, Oregon ranching families tell their stories about taking dramatic steps to restore salmon and steelhead habitat on their land. A deep respect for the land, passed on from generations before them, and a strong desire to do right by the land and pass it on to their children in a way [...]
Ralf Meyer, Karen Anspacher-Meyer | 2010 | 26 min. | USA
Notable anthropologist Jane Goodall, National Geographic Editor-at-Large Michael Nichols, and International League of Conservation Photographers president Cristina Mittermeier, among many others, share candid thoughts on the power of photography and its value as an effective conservation tool. The narrative is accompanied by stunning photographic contributions from over 40 conservation photographers to illustrate the convergence between the [...]
Neil Ever Osborne, Chad A. Stevens | 2010 | 18 min. | Canada
Brower Youth Award – De’Anthony Jones
Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards to honor founder and legendary activist David R. Brower. The awards recognize six young people in North America annually for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental justice advocacy. Meet the 2010 winners: Ana Elisa Perez-Quintero, De’Anthony Jones, Freya Chay, Marcus Grignon, Misra Walker, [...]
| 2010 | 5 min. | USA
The Fishman
Mike Kasic swims the Yellowstone River like a human-fish through swift river canyons and scenic mountain views, watching trout in fast currents filled with frothing water tornadoes, stopping only to body surf river waves. His message is simple: a river is more than its water; what lies beneath is a wilderness that is often overlooked, [...]
Kathy Kasic | 2009 | 10 min. | USA
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Follow a plastic bag from supermarket to its final migratory destination in the Pacific Ocean gyre. Jeremy Irons narrates this mock nature documentary.
Jeremy Konner | 2010 | 4 min. | USA
Sign Language
Ben holds a sign for a living, and he loves his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day. Winner of Virgin Media Shorts (UK’s biggest short film prize).
Oscar Sharp, Stephen Follows | 2010 | 5 min. | UK
Oktapodi
Two octopuses help each other in their comical escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook.
Julien Bocabeille, Olivier Delabarre | 2007 | 3 min. | france
This event would not be possible without the financial assistance of our local and national sponsors. Thank you!
Local Sponsors:
GBSPA Inc.
1666 Liquors
Salisbury Brook Stream Team
Crocetti's
The Brockton Garden Club
Burrito Wraps Mexican Grill
Holmes-McDuffy Florists, Inc.
National Sponsors:
Sierra Nevada
Patagonia
Klean Kanteen
Clif Bar
Osprey
Grist
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