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Green Short Films

Submit your own green short film, or a trailer or clip from your longer film (please note this is not a submission to the general Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital)

  1. Upload your film or clip to YouTube
  2. Please make sure to keep your film or clip in one 10-minute or less video
  3. Email the link, along with a photo or screen grab and a short synopsis to: info@envirofilmfest.org


Me and My Bike

Added to Forum: 3/22/12

Running Time: 1:10


Me and My Bike

Connect4Climate Video 2011 Competition Winner. Me and My Bike is all about saving energy.

Cultivating Kids

Added to Forum: 2/17/11

Running Time: 10:47


Cultivating Kids

Middle and elementary schools in Santa Barbara, California are integrating gardens into their communities and classrooms. The s'Cool Food Initiative, funded by the Orfalea Foundation, hopes to inspire children to make healthy food choices today and throughout their lives. 

Green Means Grow

Added to Forum: 2/1/11

Running Time: 5:51


Green Means Grow

The Neighborhood Farm Initiative and members of its Green Summer youth team dig, plant and weed their way through the dog days of summer.

Elevator

Added to Forum: 10/7/10

Running Time: 0:32


Elevator

This PSA highlights how the most pressing issues we face today as a planet and in the United States are compounded by a rapidly growing population.

School Sprouts: Birth of a Garden

Added to Forum: 8/5/10

Running Time: 7:48


School Sprouts: Birth of a Garden

This inspiring short film, told from the point of view of the young gardeners themselves, shows people of all ages the beauty of gardening together and anywhere -- even in a parking lot.

How To Fix Everything

Added to Forum: 4/20/10

Running Time: 2:53

How To Fix Everything

If it's broken, don't throw it away! Fix it! The Fixers' Collective in Brooklyn, is a social experiment in improvisational fixing and mending. They are mending their way to a better world. Once a week they meet, creating community and changing our relationships to objects. Presented by GristTV.

Solar Cooked Snowbank Chicken Soup

Added to Forum: 2/15/10

Running Time: 2:44


Solar Cooked Snowbank Chicken Soup

Made between snowstorms during the U.S. East Coast blizzard of February 2010, this film demonstrates the use of a solar cooker to make a pot of chicken soup on top of a snowdrift with freezing outside temperatures. It urges people to have a solar cooker on hand for emergencies and looks at solar cooking use around the world.

Talking with Gabe Klein

Added to Forum: 2/8/10

Running Time: 4:57


Talking with Gabe Klein

Gabe Klein, director of DC DOT, shows us some of the accomplishments of the agency and talks about future plans and how he see the future of transportation in Washington, DC.

Ciclovia

Added to Forum: 2/8/10

Running Time: 9:41


Ciclovia

Every Sunday and holiday of every week, the City of Bogotá, Colombia closes down over 70 miles of roadways to cars and let people bike, walk, talk, run, dance, skip, exercise, picnic, sunbathe and whatever else they want to while spending time outdoors with friends and family.

We're Walking Here NYC!

Added to Forum: 2/8/10

Running Time: 1:55


We're Walking Here NYC!

Students from PS 8 in Brooklyn, NYC tell the world why walking to school is important. Watch this 2009 PSA Winner to find out what they have to say.

Greenprint China

Added to Forum: 2/8/10

Running time: 8:16


Greenprint China

China has recently overtaken the United States as the world's largest global warming polluter. Fortunately, China's leaders are inviting outside help, and NRDC is advising the country's leadership on ways to balance economic and environmental progress. Presented by NRDC.

The Dark Side of a Green Fuel

Added to Forum: 2/2/09

Running Time: 3:34


The Dark Side of a Green Fuel

Indigenous people are being affected by the destruction of peat swamp forests by palm oil companies. Cultivation is driven by demand for renewable energy to mitigate climate change. The film illustrates the environmental and societal threats that communities face, through the story of Saoni, a fisherman in Aceh. Third Place, Social Dimensions of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.


Flood Children of Holdibari

Added to Forum: 2/2/09

Running Time: 4:33


Flood Children of Holdibari

Bangladesh is one of the most susceptible countries in the world to climate change. The rising sea levels are contributing to river and coastal erosion while higher atmospheric temperature and intense storms are causing widespread floods. One island that is severely affected by flooding is East Holdibari in North West Bangladesh. However, Holdibari's children are fighting back, and have created an action plan to prepare for future floods. First Place, Social Dimensions of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.


Much A-Poo About Nothing

Added to Forum: 2/1/09

Running Time: 1:57


Much A-Poo About Nothing

New parents face an avalanche of uncertainties, and one of the biggest is the diaper question. Is it better for the earth (and your baby's bum) to choose cloth or disposable? With the help of some wee friends, advice maven Umbra Fisk delivers the straight poop on this perplexing topic.


Food Crisis in Liberia

Added to Forum: 7/28/08

Running Time: 2:04


Food Crisis in Liberia

World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick is calling on leaders of the world's richest countries and major oil producers to act now on surging food and oil prices. Zoellick says the world is entering "a danger zone," and about 10 billion US dollars are needed to meet the short term needs of the places and people hit hardest. Liberia is one of those hit... rising food prices have pushed 200 thousand people into poverty there. Presented by The World Bank.


Food Crisis in Kyrgyz Republic

Added to Forum: 7/28/08

Running Time: 2:40


Food Crisis in Kyrgyz Republic

Farmers in the Kyrgyz Republic say that the economic crisis is hitting hard at their livelihood. Drought has added to their problems. The country is now using a new World Bank grant to expand programs it hopes will help farmers hit hard by the food crisis. Presented by The World Bank.


A Sacred Country

Added to Forum: 3/12/08

Running Time: 5:05


A Sacred Country

The Suquamish people have a message for all of mankind, which is to remind us that by not respecting the Earth, we are not only desecrating what is sacred - without heed to future generations and other species - but also that in our arrogance, we have forgotten our place on Earth. We have an opportunity for a radical shift from the wasteful ways we have adopted and to live in harmony with all life on Earth.


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