The 17th annual Environmental Film Festival focuses on the challenges to
our planet’s oceans and sea life.
During the festival, more than 100 documentary, feature, animated, archival,
and children’s films are selected and screened to provide fresh perspectives
on environmental issues around the world. A history of Appalachia’s
mountains and people, global warming, healthy food and clean drinking water,
recycling, and green architecture are among the topics to be examined.
This year, the Smithsonian Associates contributes to the festival by presenting
new IMAX screenings, which include a special guest appearance by Philippe
Cousteau Jr. and a panel discussion and screening of the new film
Children of the Amazon.
Festival film screenings—many free—take place in venues throughout
Washington, D.C., and are enhanced by discussions with filmmakers, scientists,
and environmental experts.
Wild
Ocean 3D
Thurs., March 19, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Wild Ocean 3D is an explosive, symphonic documentary film about
man and nature, capturing spectacular breaching whales, feeding sharks,
diving gannets, and massive bait balls inside and up close on the giant
IMAX screen.
Children
of the Amazon
Fri., March 20, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Film screening and discussion. Through captivating photos and interviews,
Children of the Amazon, tells the story of struggle and hope
to protect the world's largest tropical rainforest and its inhabitants.