Film Schedule

• February 15, 2013, 7pm

  The Elusive Wild: The Hunter

• February 16, 2013, 7pm

  Images of Climate Change: Chasing Ice

• February 17, 2013, 2pm

  Eco-Movements: A Fierce Green Fire — The Battle for a Living Planet

• February 18, 2013, 7pm

  Spiritual Ecology: Samsara

• February 19, 2013 7pm

  Silenced by Corporations: Big Boys Gone Bananas

• February 20, 2013, 7pm

  What We Eat: In Organic We Trust

• February 21, 2013, 7pm

  Real Eco-Horrors: Poisoned Waters

• February 22, 2013, 7pm

  Eco-Horror: The Bay

• February 23, 2013, 7pm

  Rare Humanity: Contact

Rare Humanity: Contact

February 23, 2013, 7pm

Credits

Director, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler (Australia, 78m, 2009)

Official Website

In 1964, a group of twenty Martu women and children — Aboriginal people who had never before seen whites — were encountered in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia. This remarkable film includes not only documentary footage of that first contact, but also recent interviews with several members of the original Martu group, who poignantly describe the encounter of 1964 and its profound impact on their lives.

Presented by Dr. James Deutsch, program curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and adjunct professor of American studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

News & Views

• February 24, 2013

  The 2013 award recipients have been announced, click here to see the winners.

• January 24, 2013

  The 2013 films have been announced, learn more.

• February 27, 2012

  The 2012 award recipients have been announced, click here to see the winners.

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