Sick-Amour A beautiful and forlorn tree, stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot. Hit by cars, and starved for water and oxygen. Drawn to the tree and outraged by the indignities that it endures, Joel Tauber devotes himself to improving the trees life. Passionately narrated by Tauber and peppered with interviews by experts in a variety of disciplines, Sick-Amour is a highly unusual documentary. It examines the tree in a multi-faceted manner, offering it as a microcosm of the plight of urban trees and of forgotten individuals. Simultaneously, the film is a love story between Joel and the tree.
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THE BILBY BROTHERS FROM AUSTRALIA: A charming award winning film from Australia about their endangered rabbit-eared marsupial called the bilby, and the 'sweet' idea devised by a ranger and a biologist to help raise money for a bilby sanctuary, and have single handedly turned the tables on an almost extinct species. Their 'sweet idea' got the whole country involved. Now chocolate Easter Bilbies outsell Easter
Bunnies by 8-1! Darrell Lea contributes a percentage of sales to the Bilby Fund, and the sanctuary has been built thanks to the chocolate eating Australian public.
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The Good Fight: The Martin Litton Story The Good Fight chronicles an extraordinary mans efforts in saving the Grand Canyon from being ruined with dams and his ongoing struggle to preserve the Giant Sequoias from the axe of the Forest Service. Martin Litton has been an active force for preservation since 1934.
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The LAST STAND: Heroes at Ballona Wetlands THE LAST STAND: HEROES AT BALLONA WETLANDS is an updated short dealing with the high profile preservation and development controversy in Southern California. This spirited film includes highlights from earlier versions as well as well as dramatic new footage covering the excavation of native American remains and artifacts at the development site.
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The Witness In the award-winning documentary THE WITNESS, Eddie Lama explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue abandoned animals, become a vegetarian, and ultimately, to bring his message of compassion to the streets of New York.