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2007 Hawaii Conservation Film Festival
July 24, 2007
11:00 am to 8:30 pm
Hawaii Convention Center, Liliu Theatre Room 310
The Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance Foundation presents Hawai‘i’s First Conservation Film Festival. The eight films have been selected for their relevance to Hawai‘i. With some films the connection is immediate and obvious: birds, people, volcanoes, even the tragedy of cane toads. In the others humanity has made certain decisions, and these have global and local environmental consequences. The issues of invasive species, population growth, and exploitation of resources, are already impacting our island way of life. The festival of films is rounded out by a multi-media presentation of “The Climate Project” - Al Gore’s ongoing development of An Inconvenient Truth - by Jeff Mikulina, who will bring to it a Hawai‘i-specific update and provide actions where we in Hawai‘i can work to be part of the global solution.
The film festival is free and a donation is not required. Technical assistance and equipment for this First Hawai‘i Conservation Film Festival is being provided by the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.
11:00 am Hawai‘i Birds
From the graceful seabirds at Kilauea Point and precious honeycreepers of the Alakai‘i Swamp, to the windswept plains of Kohala and the native forest of Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i is home to some of the rarest and most beautiful birds in the world. This film shows the diversity of the avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. (15min)
11:15 am Volcanoes of the Deep
Far below the waves, deep and remote, is an incredible world teeming with life. Venture with a team of scientists 12,000 feet beneath the ocean surface on a search for a living fossil – an elusive creature that lived hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs. Unravel the secrets of a dynamic habitat where life is fueled by the planet’s internal fires – a place that may hold the key to finding life on other worlds. (30min)
11:50 am The Hawaiians - Reflecting Spirit
This film offers important cultural insights into which the Hawaiians are as a people, their origins, historical challenges and current social conditions. It talks about the connectedness of native peoples to the ocean, sky and land. (58min)
12:50 pm Cane Toads - An Unnatural History
Cane toads were imported by the sack load from Hawai‘i to Australia in 1935 in an attempt to rid the country of the Greyback beetle, which was rapidly destroying their sugarcane crop. The cane toads adapted beautifully to their new surroundings. Problem was, the beetle could fly and the cane toad couldn’t. This is an amazing story of an amphibious assault – the whole story, warts and all, and in truly Australian style. (65min)
2:00 pm Strange Days on Planet Earth - Invaders
Non-native plant and animal species are taking over entire ecological zones, with devastating consequences for the original habitats, including humans. Join scientists rushing to better understand these on-going invasions, and what can be done to curb the alien attack. (65min)
3:10 pm World in the Balance – The People Paradox
It took all of human history until 1800 for the world’s population to reach its first billion. Now we add a new billion ever dozen years. And as the global total swells to nearly 9 billion by 2050, the social and environmental strains will be enormous. Nova shows how decisions made now will change the fate of everyone over the next fifty years. (60 min)
4:10 pm Who Killed the Electric Car?
Running solely on electricity, General Motors’ fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles were so efficient, they were on the brink of altering the future of driving in America – perhaps even the world. Those lucky enough to drive one gave it glowing reviews. So why were they all destroyed? This is a murder mystery like no other, as it unravels the puzzling demise of a vehicle that could have saved the environment and America’s dangerous addiction to foreign oil. (95min)
5:50 pm World in the Balance – China Revs Up
Second part of this NOVA series is an insider’s look at China’s booming economy and its growing impact on the environment. What will happen if China follows America’s affluent lifestyle and begins to rival the US as the world’s biggest polluter? (60 min)
7:00 pm Jeff Mikulina (Sierra Club Hawai‘i) presents
“The Climate Project” a presentation based upon Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth was a wake-up call that cuts through the myths and misconceptions to deliver the message that global warming is a real and present danger. This is Al Gore’s presentation of the science and impacts of climate change globally and reveals Hawai‘i’s major role in “An Inconvenient Truth.” Trained in this presentation by Gore, Jeff Mikulina further examines Hawai‘i’s starring role – from the impacts to our island ecology, to the opportunities we have in being part of the global solution. (90min)
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