Award-Winning Documentary Film Events
Award-Winning Documentary Films
Crescent Moon Theater
150 South 100 East, Kanab www.crescentmoon.com
This series is presented free of charge!
Arrive 10 minutes early before each documentary film, to see images of regional landscapes captured by archaeologist Steve Stacey.
SUNDAY
Biomimicry: Learning from Nature, Part 1&2
4:00 PM, Sunday, May 16
Topic: Modeling natural processes for Business, Industry and Agriculture
A double feature based on the acclaimed book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine Benyus. Biomimicry explores a new science that studies nature, then imitates its designs and processes to solve human problems. Believing our teachers are all around us, biomimics are uncovering major insights after decades of research into the lives of insects, bivalves, plants and mammals. Their explorations aren't "about" nature in order to circumvent or control her. Instead, guided by humility, biomimics are learning "from" nature’s ecological survivors who have prospered for millions of years, and met their needs while creating conditions conducive to life for all others around them.
After 3.8 billion years, `life' knows what works and what lasts on earth. Mimicking these designs and strategies - their recipes - could change the way we grow food, harness energy, do business, even make materials, and fit in alongside the rest of nature.
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – Part 3
8:00 PM, Sunday, May 16
Topic: Establishing America’s National Park System
The national parks spring from an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most precious portions of our lands should be preserved, not for the royalty or the rich, but for everyone, for all time. The National Parks: America’s Best Idea celebrates the people – famous and unknown – whose stories of struggle and conflict, stirring adventure and enduring inspiration are set against a backdrop of stunning beauty and grandeur; stories of saving magnificent places for future generations to treasure.
MONDAY
Wilderness: The Great Debate
4:00 PM, Monday, May 17
Topic: Multiple uses on Public Lands
For forty years the American West has been the nation’s battleground for the preservation of wild lands. But have 21st century growth and energy demands relegated wilderness to the pages of history? Robert Redford joins a host of diverse voices in debating the need and purpose of wilderness in this visually stunning documentary. A 2010 KUED Channel 7 production.
A Sea Change
8:00 PM, Monday, May 17
Topic: Climate Change
A Sea Change documents how the pH balance of the oceans has changed dramatically since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in acidification. With near unanimity, scientists now agree that the burning of fossil fuels is fundamentally reshaping ocean chemistry. Experts predict that over the next century, steadily rising CO2 emissions will cause most of the world’s fisheries to collapse into a state that could last for millions of years. Ocean acidification is a significant part of the climate change story. A Sea Change does a unique and excellent job of conveying this complex scientific issue to the public.
TUESDAY
Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators
4:00 PM, Tuesday, May 18
Topic: Ecology of species diversity
Top predators hold a key to life itself. Can people and predators coexist? Can we afford not to? Filmed in the heart of predator country, the Yellowstone plateau; the canyons of Zion; and the rugged country of Idaho and Minnesota, Lords of Nature portrays the role top predators play in restoring biodiversity, as we learn from scientists and people now living with the beasts society once banished.
A Sense of Wonder
8:00 PM, Tuesday, May 18
Topic: Rachel Carson’s love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.
When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, the backlash from her critics forced her into the role of controversial public figure. Filmed at Carson’s summer cottage on the Maine coast, Actor, Kaiulani Lee embodies this extraordinary woman in an intimate and poignant portrait of Carson's life as she emerges as America's most successful advocate for the natural world.
"Beautifully filmed... A Sense of Wonder captures the strengths of Carson's convictions, her resolve in overcoming corporate and governmental interests that would suppress the findings of her work, and her tenacity in fighting and winning the first major battle for environmental conservation. Extras will be shown, followed by an opportunity for community discussion. Based on Kaiulani Lee's popular play.