Posts by Nick

Don’t Know, We’ll See, written and directed by Lucy Massie Phenix, shares the story of beloved ceramicist, Karen Karnes, as a way to explore the creative process that we are all engaged in during our lives.

Living Downstream, directed and produced by Chanda Chevannes, follows ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D over one pivotal year as she travels across North America, educating audiences about the links between cancer and ones’ environment.

On Coal River, directed by Francine Cavanaugh and Adam Wood, follows four West Virginians who challenge the domination of the largest local employer, the Massey Energy Company, who controls the coal mining operations in the Coal River Valley.

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai,  directed and produced by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton, is an in-depth and complete film about Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai.  Made during the last decade of her life, the film portrays how her act of planting trees and her commitment to education and empowerment of women, grew into a nationwide movement for environmental and human rights.

The Vanishing of the Bees, directed and produced by George Langworthy  and Maryam Henein, centers around the relationship that Americans have with bees – as pollinators, producers of honey, and as indicator species that through their massive die-offs are signaling a strain on the natural world caused by industrial agricultural practices and chemical exposure.

Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist whose bank pioneered micro-loans.