IN THE SHADOW OF COAL: PRESERVING THE HOMELAND FOR SEVEN GENERATIONS - 12 min
"Running From Coal Dust" Single mother Rose Bolach began researching coal dust when coal trains doubled, then tripled heading to western ports. Coal dust is linked to diseases that are especially harmful to children. With the school one hundred yards from the tracks, she decided she needed to do something.

"A Strip Mine is Forever" Rancher Steve Charter has been fighting since the 1970's to keep coal operations from destroying his family's ranch. Since then, he has watched the coal industry erode the safeguards he's fought so hard to establish. Now the threat of strip-mining on his ranch looms.

"Some Places Shouldn't Be Industrialized" The Otter Creek Valley sits atop the largest coal deposit in the lower forty-eight states. It's also home to some of Montana's most productive farms and some of the last unindustrialized grasslands. Wildlife filmmaker Dawson Dunning shares why Otter Creek is worth protecting.

"Preserving the Homeland For Seven Generations" The Northern Cheyenne Reservation sits atop Montana's largest coal reserve. Alaina Buffalo Spirit and the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council stand up "as warriors" to stop the nearby Otter Creek Mine, the largest open-pit coal mine proposed in the lower forty-eight states.

"Keeping a Ranch That Can Be Passed On" Jeanie Alderson's family has been ranching Montana's Tongue River Valley since 1889, weathering world wars and the Depression. Jeanie's water is now threatened by proposed coal mines that must drain the aquifer to extract the coal. In arid Montana, water is life.

IN SEARCH OF TZOTZ - 10 min
Deep in the Mayan forest of southern Mexico live two species of large carnivorous bats. Join a world-renowned biologist and a National Geographic photographer as they search for these rare and elusive creatures.

BEING HEAR - 10 min
Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award winning nature sound recordist and acoustic ecologist from Joyce, Washington. For a vast majority of his life he has traveled all over the world in search of sound. In recent years, an ever increasing intrusion of noise pollution from human activity has interfered with his work. Being Hear highlights his quest to preserve silence, and the importance of listening. The film takes place on the Olympic Peninsula, the largest coniferous forest and only rain forest in the continental United States. It also features his world renowned and award-winning sound recordings.

BETWEEN SEASONS - 11 min
In Salinas, California, former and current farm workers grapple with the legacy of decades of activism.

SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY - 11 min
When the tide of gentrification reaches her Harlem single room occupancy building, a former Bond Girl documents her mission to save the neighborhood.

THE FOURTH KINGDOM - 14 min
The Fourth Kingdom is the kingdom of plastics, a redemption center in NY for immigrants and underdogs where the American Dream becomes possible indeed.

ELK RIVER - 28 min
Mirroring a similar expedition undertaken in 1871 that fused science and the arts, this modern band of explorers (Scientist Arthur Middleton, photographer Joe Riis, artist James Prosek and filmmaker Jenny Nichols) join their ungulate counterparts on a trek from Wyoming's rangeland through snowy mountain passes and treacherous river crossings to the rugged beauty of Yellowstone's high-alpine meadows.

(Total 91 min)

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