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- Can we reverse climate change? Ice on Fire explores the many ways we reduce carbon inputs to the atmosphere and, more important, how to "draw" carbon down, bringing CO2 out of the atmosphere and thus paving the way for global temperatures to go down. Reversing climate change is urgent, given that the world passed 400 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere resulting in climate instability across the globe. We have heard the predictions but now climate related events are a daily reality - summer 2018 was the hottest on record, storms are stronger, droughts are longer, the arctic ice is thin or non-existent and antarctica is melting faster than predicted. Through visiting visionaries and scientists young and old, the film explores the deep hope that we can turn away from the brink. And, just as we figure out drawdown, we face an added complexity, the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas in the arctic, that is now entering the atmsphere. As the film says: "Is it game over? Or is it game on? As we have at hand, the ability, the capacity, and solutions that can reverse global warming...not mitigate, not reduce, not stabilize, but reverse.'
- What happens when there's a breakthrough? When, spontaneously, young people innovate and turn back what appears to be unstoppable catastrophe? Legion 44 chronicles these visionaries, many from the Global South, who have invented groundbreaking solutions to reverse climate disruption. Our film shows we can indeed make everything right again. We start with the cautionary tale of Tuvalu that amidst global inaction and rising seas, is putting themselves into the metaverse to preserve their culture. To which emerges our Legion, who answer the call and invent carbon removal. Building from the basic science of rocks, water and carbon, the film takes off and we see how human ingenuity can keep Tuvalu and other low-lying lands from going under. Legion 44 at times incorporates montages that shows a world distracted and so depressed that they have given up. But our heroes persist on. This Legion is highly collaborative and from all walks of life and backgrounds. We journey to the Hajar mountains in Oman, to the vulnerable islands of Tuvalu, to the Rift Valley in Kenya, to the Southern Sahara in Morocco, to the Sargassum-rich seas of St. Vincent. Legion 44 is more than a film, it is a love letter to humanity, and the 3rd film on climate by Leila Conners. With Walton Goggins as narrator, his heartfelt compassion supports this tone. Conners works with Bosnian cinematographer Harun Mehmedinovic and his choice of anamorphic lenses to show collaboration in context. Legion 44 included Sun Creature from Denmark/France to build graphics that joyfully show the inner workings of the science. And most poignant, Marc Streitenfeld's strong score tinged with hope and yearning is a main pillar in our journey given that, will the world accept this pathway and scale in time? Conners has followed humanity's struggle with climate for over 20 years--first with The 11th Hour, then with Ice on Fire. Now she brings Legion 44 at a pivotal moment: will we inspire real action to fix climate once and for all?
- What if ADHD was not a disorder, but rather a set of traits of a type of brain that functions differently than the non-ADHD brain? What if ADHD is genetic and handed down by generations of Hunters? What if all ADHD is, is a condition caused by a society that tries to fit Hunters into a Farmer's world? The label ADHD has run its course.
- Land managers have a unique opportunity to turn tens of millions of acres into healthy pollinator habitat. In particular, power companies with right-of-way corridors and buffer zones are uniquely positioned to create large pollinator highways. These untapped areas have the potential to become one of the largest pollinator projects in history. If power companies and other land managers choose to work together planting flowers and reducing chemical use across the landscape, we can bring back pollinators and-with them-a host of essential food and ecosystem resources. As electricity flows through the landscape, power companies can help pollinators flow through the ecosystem.
- URBAN ROOTS is a documentary that tells the story of the spontaneous emergence of urban farming in the city of Detroit. Detroit, once an industrial powerhouse of a lost American era, is a city devastated by the loss of half its population due to the collapse of manufacturing. By the looks of it, the city has died. But now, against all odds, in the empty lots, in the old factory yards, and in-between the sad, sagging blocks of company housing, seeds of change are taking root. With the most vacant lots in the country, citizens are reclaiming their spirits by growing food. A small group of dedicated citizens have started an urban environmental movement with the potential to transform not just a city after its collapse, but also a country after the end of its industrial age. Urban Roots shows dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where people - as in much of the county - have found themselves cut off from real food and limited to the lifeless offerings of fast food chains, mini-marts, and grocery stores stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away. The people of Detroit have taken on the enormous task of changing this for themselves, and to understand their story is to understand how we can change it for us all. Urban Roots is a story that reveals that the best in us can prevail in the most difficult of times; and in the most difficult of places, new hope emerges. This growing movement of urban farmers is changing the way people think about food-and life in the "D". It took men like Henry Ford, William Durant, and Lee Iacocca to build this city, but it's taken a bunch of strong willed self-taught urban farmers to save it.
- American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the only way to survive is to frontally challenge the oligarchy that has destroyed democracy in the United States. From the director of The 11th Hour, Leila Conners. Narrated by Walton Goggins.
