Numerous sustainability-related documentaries exist; choosing the best ones is part of the challenge. Here are a few ways of finding quality films:
Film Festivals
http://www.hazelfilm.org/filmfestivals.html
A list of several sustainability-related film festivals world-wide, with links to their websites. Most sites contain archives of past festivals, so you can see which films keep popping up.
Film Distributors
Bull Frog Films: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com
The Video Project: http://www.videoproject.net
AK Press: http://www.akpress.org
A few documentaries that we've seen and would recommend. (*) next to title indicates that Foresight owns a copy to lend.
Blue Vinyl
http://www.bluevinyl.org
A toxic comedy look at vinyl, the world's second largest selling plastic. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand’s hometown to America’s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). 80 minutes.
*Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
http://www.ban.org
A documentary based on an investigative report revealing that huge quantities of hazardous electronic wastes (E-wastes) are being exported to China, Pakistan and India where they are processed in operations that are extremely harmful to human health and the environment. 23 minutes.
*Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
Distributed by: http://www.akpress.org
To investigate the roots of our waste addicted culture, Heather Rogers excavates the history of garbage handling from the 1800s to the post-WWII golden era of consumption, up through the contradictions of modern day recycling. 19 minutes.
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