28 September 2013| last updated at 07:44PM
FROM exploring nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development to the resurgence of electric vehicles, Kuala Lumpur’s innovative environmental film festival has something for everyone.
Now in its sixth year, the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival, sponsored by Maybank Foundation and Taiwan-based software company Cyberlink, has become one of the country’s grandest and most influential purveyors of environmental film. Many national premieres are included in the line-up including documentaries, narratives, animations and short films. Films are shown throughout the city at partnering museums, embassies, libraries, universities and local theatres.
With a programme curated to offer fresh views on global environmental issues, most of the screenings are accompanied by discussions with filmmakers, environmental experts and special guests.
This year’s festival, which runs from Oct 11-13, will include 66 films from 13 countries, including 18 national premieres. Some highlights include:
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: THE BATTLE FOR A LIVING PLANET
The film is an exploration of the environmental movement — grassroots and global activism — spanning 50 years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tonnes of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilisation, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting — and succeeding — against enormous odds.
Narrated by Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, and Isabel Allende Directed by Mark Kitchell
Running time: 114mins
Screening date: Oct 11, 8pm
Segaris Art Centre, Publika
CHASING ICE
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of his first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Running time: 75 minutes
Screening date: Sept 30, 8pm
The Square, Publika
REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR
Revenge of the Electric Car The film presents the recent resurgence of electric vehicles as seen through the eyes of four pioneers of the EV revolution. As more models of electric cars than ever before start to arrive in showrooms and driveways across the world, Chris Paine’s film offers an inspiring, entertaining and definitive account of this revolutionary moment in human transportation.
Directed by Chris Paine
Running time: 90 minutes
Screening date: 12 Oct, 8.30pm
The Square, Publika.
SURVIVING PROGRESS
But what if progress is actually spiraling us towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired Surviving Progress, shows how past civilisations were destroyed by “progress traps” — alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilisation escape a final, catastrophic progress trap?
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: THE BATTLE FOR A LIVING PLANET
The film is an exploration of the environmental movement — grassroots and global activism — spanning 50 years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tonnes of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilisation, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting — and succeeding — against enormous odds.
Narrated by Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, and Isabel Allende Directed by Mark Kitchell
Running time: 114mins
Screening date: Oct 11, 8pm
Segaris Art Centre, Publika
CHASING ICE
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of his first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Running time: 75 minutes
Screening date: Sept 30, 8pm
The Square, Publika
REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR
Revenge of the Electric Car The film presents the recent resurgence of electric vehicles as seen through the eyes of four pioneers of the EV revolution. As more models of electric cars than ever before start to arrive in showrooms and driveways across the world, Chris Paine’s film offers an inspiring, entertaining and definitive account of this revolutionary moment in human transportation.
Directed by Chris Paine
Running time: 90 minutes
Screening date: 12 Oct, 8.30pm
The Square, Publika.
SURVIVING PROGRESS
But what if progress is actually spiraling us towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired Surviving Progress, shows how past civilisations were destroyed by “progress traps” — alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilisation escape a final, catastrophic progress trap?
Directed by Mathieu Roy, Co-Produced by Martin Scorsese
Running time: 86 minutes.
Screening date: Oct 1, 8pm
Table 23 Restaurant
PANDORA’S PROMISE
Impact Partners, in association with Vulcan Productions and CNN Films, presents this groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award-nominated director Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we’ve got nuclear power wrong?
Running time: 86 minutes.
Screening date: Oct 1, 8pm
Table 23 Restaurant
PANDORA’S PROMISE
Impact Partners, in association with Vulcan Productions and CNN Films, presents this groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award-nominated director Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we’ve got nuclear power wrong?
An audience favourite at the Sundance Film Festival, Pandora’s Promise asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty.
Stone tells the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti to strongly pro-nuclear energy, risking their careers and reputations in the process. He also exposes this controversy within the environmental movement head-on with stories of defection by heavy weights including Stewart Brand, Richard Rhodes, Gwyneth Cravens, Mark Lynas and Michael Shellenberger.
Running time: 77 mins
Screening date: Oct 13, 8.30pm
The Square, Publika
Other partners include MAP Publika, UEM Sunrise, Tanamera Tropical Spa Products, Go International, Palate Palette, the Ford Environmental and Conservation Grants Foundation, with IACT College as the official University Partner, and the Tinai Eco Film Festival as its international film festival partner.
Running time: 77 mins
Screening date: Oct 13, 8.30pm
The Square, Publika
Other partners include MAP Publika, UEM Sunrise, Tanamera Tropical Spa Products, Go International, Palate Palette, the Ford Environmental and Conservation Grants Foundation, with IACT College as the official University Partner, and the Tinai Eco Film Festival as its international film festival partner.
For more info visit www.ecofilmfest.my
Read more: KL Eco Film Fest highlights - Live - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/live/kl-eco-film-fest-highlights-1.364218#ixzz2tZ8zCsv7
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