Held from October 17-20, the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, reinforced its preeminent role as the platform for superb documentaries. Productions screened were informed by anthropological and social science underpinnings, an orientation towards contemporary issues, and cogent analysis of problems ranging from political self determination to environmental challenges. The festival, started in 1977, is the longest running annual international documentary fe...

The International Uranium Film Festival will be for the 5th time in Berlin. From September 28 to October 2nd, the festival will screen 22 nuclear movies and documentaries with the presence of more than 10 filmmakers from 8 countries. All films will be screened in English, German or with German or English subtitles. Venue: The cinema of the Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin East. Program: MITTWOCH 28.9.2016, 19.00 Uhr THE IDEALIST - Geheimakte Grönland (Idealisten...

By Maria Esteves – December 7, 2012 As glaciers around the world are disappearing and sea level rising 60 percent faster than projected, the timing is right for a documentary on climate change. Jeff Orlowski’s CHASING ICE is truly one of the year’s best film! Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) team member Orlowski documented award winning American photographer James Balog 25 camera network project capturing the erosion of glaciers in Iceland, Greenland and Alaska from 2007 to 2012 in s...