March 16, 2008

12:00 pm

12 Noon-5 PM
Winners from 2007 Jackson Hole Wildlfe Film Festival
2008 Environmental Film Festival

Deborah Rothberg (public programs coordinator) introduces the following films:
• 12:00 Noon: Saving Luna (2007, 92 min., Canada, best People and Animals film) When a lone young orca (a baby male killer whale) is separated from his family in a remote Vancouver Island fjord, he seeks companionship from people and becomes beloved. As conflict and tragedy stain the waters, Luna becomes a symbol of the world’s wildest beauty: wonderful to know and hard to save. Introduced and discussed by filmmakers Suzanne Chisolm and Michael Parfit.

• 1:45 PM: Showdown at Elktown (2006, 9 min., UK, best short film) Every year in the heart of Yellowstone National Park, the small town of Mammoth plays host to an unusual gathering of elks. This film is a light-hearted look at the mayhem they render during their annual rut.

• 2:00 PM: Galapagos: Born of Fire (2006, 49 min., UK, Grand Teton Award for best of festival) This film is the opening episode of a 3-part series that examines the development of the Galapagos and reveals how the creatures who live there have come to grips with their restless Pacific outpost.

• 3:00 PM: True Adventures of the Ultimate Spider Hunter (2006, 52 min., UK, best presenter-led film) Martin Nicholas is an unassuming British water treatment engineer by day, but by night he becomes a courageous and creative arachnid hunter. Travel with him to find the world’s most dangerous spider, the world’s biggest spiders, the spider that that produces the world’s strongest silk, and others.

• 4:00 PM: Nature Tech (2006, 52 min., Austria, best limited series) Exciting developments in physics, chemistry, and computer technology are enabling us to understand nature’s designs better than ever, while biomimetics — a way of using nature as a starting point for ideas — has opened up startling new possibilities for the future of science and technology. This film reveals how natural selection has been solving all the varied problems of life for nearly four billion years.
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