Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Edelic, and Beyond Toxics host EEFF Day 2! Visit the EEFF website for details on Saturday's screenings, workshops and off-site festival events! SESSION 2 INCLUDES: The Bus (6m): Learn about this family of 5 as they do life through the seasons in the mountains of North Carolina in a school bus they converted to a tiny home. Restoration Nation (7m): The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe keeps the health of the natural resources in mind when approaching sustainable development projects that benefit both the tribe and the surrounding community. The Mothers of the Chambira (8m): Youth hailing from three different Maijuna Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon convened for a film workshop as part of Creative Action Institute's "Creative Advocacy Practicum". The workshop – part of a broad effort called Proyecto ICARO – serves to strengthen first peoples’ identity and culture through the tool of community film. This edition extended the tool to Maijuna youth. 25 Maijuna participants created four short films while using community film to empower Maijuna youth for the defense of their ancestral lands. In "The Mothers of the Chambira", the group focused on the ubiquity of hand-woven chambira hammocks that use the palm fiber “chambira” and on some ancestral stories associated with its origin, cultivation, and extraction. They produced this documentary which explores the traditional harvesting practices of the chambira palm fibers, their implicit conservation ethic, its teaching among women, and the importance of hammocks in Maijuna daily life as told through over a dozen interviews with Maijuna women. Logging Algonquin (29m): Logging Algonquin is a 28 minute documentary film that looks at the historical and on-going logging happening in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Through conversations with indigenous locals, scientists, foresters, and political experts, the film asks the question: ‘Does logging belong in our modern day park?’ The film not only provides expert opinions but brings the viewer down onto the forest floor as they follow a group of passionate environmentalists searching for the logging in the park and a researcher attempting to document the remaining old growth forest in Algonquin. Packing serious punch in little time, the film dives into numerous topics around the issue and manages to relate the logging in Algonquin Park with the broader environmental condition in Ontario and across the globe. Climbing Temperatures (29m): Mingma Sherpa, a young high school graduate from Kathmandu visits her ancestral village of Phortse and learns about climate change from her own family. Mingma’s father, Phinjo Sherpa, has worked as a Himalayan mountaineer for 23 years, having climbed Mt Everest twenty times. Phinjo describes how rising temperatures have led to rockfalls and avalanches and the melting of the Everest base camp. From her mother Phinjo learns how rising temperatures and changes in rainfall have sparked an insect infestation It takes 3 days to walk to their home village of Phortse set at 3840m, but it’s still feeling the heat.">

EEFF: Sept 30 - Session 2

Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Edelic, and Beyond Toxics host EEFF Day 2! Visit the EEFF website for details on Saturday's screenings, workshops and off-site festival events! SESSION 2 INCLUDES: The Bus (6m): Learn about this family of 5 as they do life through the seasons in the mountains of North Carolina in a school bus they converted to a tiny home. Restoration Nation (7m): The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe keeps the health of the natural resources in mind when approaching sustainable development projects that benefit both the tribe and the surrounding community. The Mothers of the Chambira (8m): Youth hailing from three different Maijuna Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon convened for a film workshop as part of Creative Action Institute's "Creative Advocacy Practicum". The workshop – part of a broad effort called Proyecto ICARO – serves to strengthen first peoples’ identity and culture through the tool of community film. This edition extended the tool to Maijuna youth. 25 Maijuna participants created four short films while using community film to empower Maijuna youth for the defense of their ancestral lands. In "The Mothers of the Chambira", the group focused on the ubiquity of hand-woven chambira hammocks that use the palm fiber “chambira” and on some ancestral stories associated with its origin, cultivation, and extraction. They produced this documentary which explores the traditional harvesting practices of the chambira palm fibers, their implicit conservation ethic, its teaching among women, and the importance of hammocks in Maijuna daily life as told through over a dozen interviews with Maijuna women. Logging Algonquin (29m): Logging Algonquin is a 28 minute documentary film that looks at the historical and on-going logging happening in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Through conversations with indigenous locals, scientists, foresters, and political experts, the film asks the question: ‘Does logging belong in our modern day park?’ The film not only provides expert opinions but brings the viewer down onto the forest floor as they follow a group of passionate environmentalists searching for the logging in the park and a researcher attempting to document the remaining old growth forest in Algonquin. Packing serious punch in little time, the film dives into numerous topics around the issue and manages to relate the logging in Algonquin Park with the broader environmental condition in Ontario and across the globe. Climbing Temperatures (29m): Mingma Sherpa, a young high school graduate from Kathmandu visits her ancestral village of Phortse and learns about climate change from her own family. Mingma’s father, Phinjo Sherpa, has worked as a Himalayan mountaineer for 23 years, having climbed Mt Everest twenty times. Phinjo describes how rising temperatures have led to rockfalls and avalanches and the melting of the Everest base camp. From her mother Phinjo learns how rising temperatures and changes in rainfall have sparked an insect infestation It takes 3 days to walk to their home village of Phortse set at 3840m, but it’s still feeling the heat. DocumentaryPT2H2023-09-30EEFF: Sept 30 - Session 2"EEFF: Sept 30 - Session 2"EEFF environment nature film festival documentary

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September 30, 4:00 pm

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