Sentences with phrase «of environmental films»

Green World Rising is a series of environmental films narrated by Leonardo Dicarprio.

ASE activities in support of environmental awareness and better planetary stewardship include the Windows on Earth project, the ASE Near Earth Object mitigation effort, publication of the international best - selling book The Home Planet, partnership in the «Arbor Project» international forest conservation effort, and sponsorship of environmental films, projects and videos.

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Until then, Earth Angel faces a big challenge in convincing more of the $ 40 billion film industry to care about its environmental impact, especially when the potential savings aren't huge.

Before the release of the film, Jerry Johnson, president of the US organisation National Religious Broadcasters expressed concern at the film's «extremist environmental agenda».

Paul recently filmed a short video for Meat Free Monday urging people to keep in mind the environmental benefits of meat reduction and take up the idea.

Material and cost savings combined with puncture resistance and environmental advantages are claims made by Bollore for its newly - launched range of ultra-thin polyolefin shrink films.

To further support the positioning of NatureFlex ™, a peer reviewed LCA has been carried out by Thinkstep, based on their GaBi software, allowing transparent communication of the environmental impacts of using these films.

NatureFlex ™ is a range of speciality packaging films developed by Futamura to offer packaging material options that give strong environmental support towards increasing consumer demand for more environmentally responsible packaging.

- April 2007 the New RO filmed a Living Green segment at our shop that explored the environmental benefits of using cloth diapers.

Based on recommendations included in the report, the Governor is introducing a program bill that would ban the provision of single - use, plastic carryout bags at any point of sale, and would provide the Department of Environmental Conservation with exclusive jurisdiction over all matters related to plastic bags and film plastic recycling.

The journal article explains how comprehensive data - science methods were applied to a material - science degradation problem of PET films used as an environmental barrier in solar panels.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

M. Night Shyamalan's new film, The Happening, involves an environmental backlash, the limits of reason and the beauty of math.

«In the fine liquid film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover more distance than in soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental Microbiology.

When environmental engineer David Cwiertny began analyzing the fate of an agricultural chemical called trenbolone acetate in streams across the United States, he and his colleagues stumbled into a B - grade horror film starring a vampire steroid.

«Thin film will be able to take the cost of electricity down to better compete with existing utility prices,» says Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and a Columbia University professor of environmental engineering.

University of Tsukuba - based researchers developed a way to recover environmental heat with a new type of thin - film thermoelectric cell, based on two different materials that show changes in their redox potential on cycling of temperature.

The McCartney family launches short film «One Day a Week» highlighting the environmental impact of animal agriculture and encourages people to help by eating less meat, with appearances by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone.

The Co-Founders of the Holistic Life Foundation will be a part of a panel discussion on the documentary film «Mother Nature's Child «at the DC Environmental Film Festival on March 25th, 2011.

«I guess I must be, because this film represents a lot of ideas and feelings I have as an artist,» he said, going on to highlight his movie's «environmental message and the idea that we are all connected to each other as human beings.»

During the medial stretch of the film (about an hour), the latter journey (the visual sequences) will mimic one's experience at a planetarium, or perhaps a viewing of an environmental documentary, minus a top - rate actor's narration; if watching it on television, one might have the strong urge to check the channel.

Redford plays determined and serious (while sometimes spouting environmental facts), while Nolte gets a chance to be blustery, feisty and the comic center of the film.

Despite perilously under - lighting a few nighttime sequences, cinematographer Rachel Morrison shoots the country so full of life that it's genuinely hard to believe she didn't film a single frame of it in Africa (for a movie that's full of sloppy CG, the environmental green screen work is astonishing).

As these environmental issues continue to worsen, there's been a parallel rise in the eco-documentary — a genre of films dedicated to highlighting how human actions are negatively impacting the planet.

This year, Earth Hour and the hero of the highly anticipated motion picture The Amazing Spider - Man 2 — along with the film's stars, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and director Marc Webb — are throwing their support behind Earth Hour Blue, which aims to harness the power of the crowd to raise funds for on - the - ground environmental projects from across the world.

The film plays Toronto as part of the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on Saturday, October 21, 2017.

While it's about a young child facing her father's fading health and an impending environmental disaster (not to mention a herd of prehistoric monsters migrating ominously towards them) in a fictional part of the U.S. called «The Bathtub,» the emotionally rousing «Beasts of the Southern Wild» is simply an inspiring and celebratory look at love, loss and life that's moving and passionate in the way few films are these days (read our review).

As the film's star once again tramples across a vast expanse of land — albeit in rather different circumstances to The Hobbit trilogy — first - time feature director duo Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke turn a zombie pandemic into a musing on parental love, environmental destruction and the nation's cultural disharmonies.

The storyline - which follows several characters (including Mark Wahlberg's Elliot and Zooey Deschanel's Alma) as they attempt to survive during an environmental crisis - moves at an appropriately brisk pace, though it does become increasingly difficult to look past the pervading lack of tension within the film's more overtly scary sequences.

Ex-Machina's Alex Garland is directing and writing the film that follows a biologist who enters an environmental disaster zone after her husband is the sole survivor of an event that occurred within that zone.

An animated robot love story with an environmental theme and a slapstick delivery, WALL • E is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.

From the creators of Despicable Me comes the animated feature film adaptation of Dr. Seuss» The Lorax, a beloved cautionary tale of environmental conservation wrapped up in a colorful children's story.

Though better films finally did find their way to us, Spring remains a unique and moving story of overcoming one's own environmental and biological defects for the sake of love.

«I suspect a fear of environmental collapse, of loss of control, is bound up with our interest in some of these films,» says Wheatley.

Prolific figures in the media like Ariana Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post and Robert F Kennedy Jr, an American radio show host, environmental activist, lawyer and author — offer their thoughts and feelings on the businessman during the course of the film.

«Rebirth of Mothra II» has a bit of an environmental agenda but still a decent film.

Orlowski's documentary profiles famed environmental photographer James Balog who, together with a small and dedicated team, has sought to capture on film the retreat of Earth's glaciers using an army of time - lapse cameras positioned across the globe — from Alaska and Glacier National Park in Montana to Iceland and Greenland.

With the tempo cooled, director David Yates (back for his third film) and screenwriter Steve Kloves pore over the nuances of character and environmental changes, delighting in the opportunity to kick the kids out of Hogwarts (nowhere to be seen in this installment) and into the treacherous Muggle world, staging much of the action in outdoor locations that open up the scope of the series.

The DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is likewise fantastic, especially in the muscular presentation of the film's many musical sequences; the immersive effect is potent, whether by music or environmental effects.

I mentioned earlier that the era of a coming - of - age film is, more than anything else, an incidental environmental backdrop, but as epochs go, I can't deny how satisfying it is to see my own underused zeitgeist explored with such love and care.

It's one of several films exploring the effects of climate change and environmental...

If «We Need to Talk About Kevin» is to be labelled any one person's triumph, however, it must be Lynne Ramsay's: this question - riddled film may not have quite the environmental specificity of «Ratcatcher» and her shorts, or the tingly intimacy of «Morvern Callar,» but it's the bigger, broader application of her five - sense style she needed to make for this long - awaited career re-arrival.

At these moments the film seems to catch up with itself and throw in an environmental warning or two as a kind of «time - out» for the audience for forgetting our purpose.

This film starts with Anthony (Schwartzman), a environmental activist who is in the process of combining his charter with the department store Huckabees, hoping that working together they can preserve more land.

To be released next year, the film is a remake of a 1985 BBC miniseries that revolves around the efforts of a policeman to discover who murdered his environmental activist daughter.

Racing Extinction Director: Louie Psihoyos (USA) Academy Award - winner Louie Psihoyos is not one to sugar - coat the environmental agenda of his films; anyone who has The Cove will attest to that.

Is that why the film never seems to take the prospect of environmental calamity altogether seriously?

Redford was acknowledged for his work as actor and director, his decades long involvement in nurturing independent voices in film and the arts through the Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival, and overall advocacy on behalf of artists, as well as his work as an environmental activist over 40 years.

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They work for six month semesters with local teachers to implement a project - based curriculum through which students produce films that explore issues of personal, social, and environmental importance.