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We are thrilled to announce that Green Planet Films has received a Supporting Arts Grant from the State of Connecticut for $3007! We look forward to putting this money to work growing our film education programs and documentary distribution work to educational spaces. 2027 is going to be another great year at Green Planet Films.

"Hope! We Are On Time" is an innovative six-part documentary series that takes viewers on a journey across 17 countries, highlighting the other side of the climate emergency: the side of the innovative solutions that are already in action. The series brings together inspiring and committed voices representing different facets of the fight against climate change.  Some of these voices that guide us are Jane Goodall, Johan Röckstrom, Rob Hopkins, Kate Raworth, Mark J. Jacobson, Paul Hawken, Christiana Figueres, Bertrand Piccard, Norah Magero and Nemonte Nenquimo; with Javier Peña, Spanish environmental activist, as the main narrator.    Throughout the six episodes,...

"This documentary is an excellent resource for both teachers and academic librarians. Its strong environmental conservation messaging would make for a great asset in an environmental sciences unit on plastics and pollution. The strong sense of friendship and dependence on each other also makes this a great film exploring relationships in a women’s studies course. That they sailed would also make the film a valuable supplement for an English class reading nautically-themed novels and comparing the time periods and innovations that make each crew’s circumstances similar and different.” -Video Librarian Read the Review

"...Equal parts art and adventure, the film is a love letter to the ocean and an homage to the relationship that people have with the sea, for better or worse. Kiana says she wants it to, “evoke a desire in the viewer to follow their gut, adventure throughout this world, and become more conscious of how some of our smallest decisions can have a great impact on our own lives and the planet.”-Sail Magazine   After over a year of rebuilding an old boat, and a month of waiting for wind, three women raised anchor and set sail from North...

FOUR STARS for: The New Peasants "When you hear terms such as “off the land” and “off grid” and picture what they mean, you might think of withdrawn, unsociable people who don’t contribute meaningfully to society. Jordan Osmond’s documentary The New Peasants proves this negative reputation is ill-earned through the intimate following of a family who has spent twenty years on a mission of simplicity. Meg and her partner Patrick are self-professed “new peasants”, and they live as outside the traditional industrial food network as possible with their sons, Woody and Zephyr, in Daylesford, Australia." "Academic librarians would have a film to offer both high...