Wild & Scenic Film Festival March 10

The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley is once again hosting the Sixth Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival at Boise's Egyptian Theatre on Saturday, March 10th with an incredible selection of films to change your world.  The films combine beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions that ensure our earth and communities thrive for future generations.   Festival-goers can expect to see award winning films about nature, conservation, energy, adventure, kayaking, climbing, wildlife and more.  This year's festival celebrates community.  Like the Boise community's overwhelming support of the Land Trust's Harrison Hollow campaign.  Come see how communities around the world are celebrating and connecting with nature close to home.

Event Details:  4pm Afternoon Program.  7pm Evening Program.  Doors one hour prior to each show. Community Info, Raffle, Beer & Wine.

Tickets: Online: www.egyptiantheatre.net.  By phone: 387-1273 or in person at Egyptian Box Office, Tues-Sat., 11am-6pm.

4pm: Adults $10.00 in advance; $12.00 day of show; youth 14 & under FREE at the door; Students 15 & older $5.00.
7pm: Adults $12.00 in advance; $15.00 day of show; youth 14 & under FREE at the door; students 15 & older: $5.00.
Two Show Package -  Adults: $20.00; Students 15 and older $8.00.

Featured Films – 4:00 Matinee Program (Film time 89 minutes)

Brower Youth Awards:  Tania Pulido (4 minutes)
Richmond, CA’s Tania Pulido is educating, employing, and nourishing her community through urban agriculture.  The Brower Youth Awards celebrate today’s most visionary and strategic young environmentalists.
Weed War (6 minutes)
One man’s obsession to do his part for the environment using weed-eating goats to control noxious invaders in the Rocky Mountains.
Gloop (4 minutes)
Told like a Brother’s Grimm fable, “Gloop” offers a poignant and lasting message about the price we pay for the convenience of plastic.
The Craziest Idea (9 minutes)
The world’s biggest dam removal is under way on Washington’s Elwha River. This film captures the excitement surrounding this river restoration.
Timber (1 minute)
This short animated film uses the trimming of a beard to make a point about irresponsible usage of everything the Earth has to offer.
The Wolf & the Medallion (20 minutes)
A tale about the spirit that drives us to the summit. While climbing in the undeveloped valley of Keketuohai, "the Tuluomne of China," Jeremy Collins wrote a letter to his four year old son from the summit of a granite peak. He describes the piece as "a letter that invites us all to run from our own inner beasts."
Yelp (2 minutes)
In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem “Howl”, this short film lampoons the addictions of our generation.
Brower Youth Awards: Rhiannon & Madison (3 minutes)
The 2011 Brower Youth Awards celebrate today’s most visionary and strategic young environmentalists.   These two young women took action when they discovered that the Girl Scouts’ iconic cookies contained palm oil.
Miss South Pacific (41 minutes)
What does a beauty pageant in Suva, Fiji have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Throughout their week long pageant, the 2009-2010 Miss South Pacific Pageant contestants, or “Queens”, eloquently and passionately implore judges, spectators, and the world at large to reduce global carbon emission lest their island homes be lost to rising seas.  
           

7:00 pm Evening Program (Film Time 88 minutes)

Seasons:  Spring (4 minutes)
As the snow melts and makes its way to the ocean, Jesse Murphy becomes reinvigorated by the river.
The Greatest Migration (20 minutes)
Snake River salmon swim more than 900 miles inland and climb almost 7,000 feet to reach their spawning grounds, traveling farther and higher than any other salmon on Earth.  A gauntlet of dams blocks their migration and is pushing these high altitude salmon to extinction.
Bhutan:  The Land of the Black Necked Crane (16 minutes)
An exotic Journey to the small Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains where a benevolent king promotes Gross Domestic Happiness for his citizens while fostering respect for the environment and natural resources. 
Yelp (3 minutes)
In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem “Howl”, this short film lampoons the addictions of our generation.
A Liter of Light (2 minutes)
A foundation’s project to light up a poor neighborhood through the efforts of one local man. He becomes a beacon of hope to his community when he installs hundreds of solar-powered light bulbs in his neighbor’s houses, using a clever device made from old plastic soda bottles filled with water and bleach.
The Grid (4 minutes)
Community activists in Germany respond to the Chernobyl nuclear accident by creating the country’s first successful, cooperatively owned, renewable power company.  Narrated by Robert Redford.
Rising Tides (3 minutes)
A short documentary that demonstrates how real people from island nations are being directly affected by the impacts of climate change.
One Plastic Beach (8 minutes)
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece is studied, categorized and recycled into art. Their creations raise a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.
Second Nature:  The Biomimicry Evolution (24 minutes)
Time magazine "Hero of the Environment" Janine Benyus illustrates how organisms in nature can teach us to be more sustainable engineers, chemists, architects, and business leaders. After 3.8 billion years, nature has discovered not only how to survive but also how to thrive as a system.