Geographies of Solitude

MG on October 14, 2024

GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world. Zoe leads us among wild horses, seals and bugs, through peaks, valleys, roots, sands, weathers, seasons and stars. The intangible is evoked with hidden sounds and vanishing light. Much like a field book, the film tracks its protagonist’s labor to collect, clean and document marine litter that persistently washes up on the island shores.

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2022 (131 min)

For the Bees

MG on October 14, 2024

Khaled Almaghafi is like the bees he keeps – hardworking, generous, and respectful. After growing up in a family of beekeepers in Yemen, Khaled moved to California, which he’d heard was paradise for bees. He initially struggled to find a job, but eventually connected with a local in the beekeeping industry. He then went on to start two businesses of his own: Khaled’s Alive Bee Removal Service and Bee Healthy Honey Shop. Between the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which has directly affected his loved ones, and environmental factors continually threatening bee populations, Khaled has endured a range of hardships. But he remains optimistic and persistent, throwing his energy toward teaching community members about beekeeping and supporting his family through his businesses.

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2022 (16 min 1 sec)

Arctic Sinkholes, Nova

MG on October 14, 2024

Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications of these dramatic developments in the Arctic? Scientists and local communities alike are struggling to grasp the scale of the methane threat and what it means for our climate future.

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2022 (53 min 30 sec)

Weathering the Future, Nova

MG on October 14, 2024

As extreme weather in the U.S. impacts more people – with longer heat waves, more intense rainstorms, megafires, and droughts – discover how Americans are fighting back by marshaling ancient wisdom and innovating new solutions.

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2023 (53 min 31 sec)

Regenerating Life

MG on October 14, 2024

Building on his ground-breaking SYMBIOTIC EARTH John Feldman’s new film, REGENERATING LIFE, takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis. It offers a deeper look at the underlying causes of global warming, going beyond carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels to humankind’s relentless destruction of nature in all corners of Earth. Because ultimately it is nature—the vast biodiversity that exists on our planet—that regulates and balances Earth’s climate.

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2023 (2 h 17 min)

Plastic Earth

MG on October 14, 2024

“Plastic Earth” is a groundbreakingdocumentary that explores the urgent need to address the global plastic crisis. With plastic production from fossil-based sources on the rise, the world is facing an existential threat from climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

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2023 (1 h 40 min)

Mosaic for the Earth

MG on October 13, 2024

Two hundred and fifty musicians filled the stage to perform this world premiere. Mosaic for Earth features lyrics by leading environmental authors, visual arts projections designed by Virginia Tech’s David Franusich, and stunning illuminations by Barbara Wolff, Psalm 104: You Renew the Face of the Earth.

Mosaic for Earth celebrates the wonders of nature and explores humanity’s impact on the environment and our responsibility towards it. The concert featured special guest soloists Danielle Talamantes (Virginia Tech alumna and Metropolitan Opera soprano), Jami Rhodes (mezzo soprano), Isaac Hurtado (tenor), and Christopher Holmes (baritone).

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2022 (2h 1 m)

Homegrown National Parks Short Films

MG on October 13, 2024

This series of Homegrown National Park® (HNP) videos aims to raise awareness and urgently inspire everyone to address the biodiversity crisis by adding native plants and removing invasive ones where we live, work, learn, pray, and play.

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2021-2023

Collision

MG on October 13, 2024

COLLISION presents how a worldwide increase in shipping traffic is threatening our oceans, its inhabitants and the planet. It focuses on the under-reported issue of fatal ship strikes on whales, a threat which is endangering their very existence.

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2023 (1 h 24 min)

The Canary

MG on October 13, 2024

Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Doctor Lonnie Thompson’s life’s work evolves into a salvage mission to recover priceless historical records before they disappear forever.

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2023 (1h 44m)

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