Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to one woman […]
NYC PREMIERE Oscar® -nominated filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home, Sister Helen) explores the atomic secrets of St. Louis, Missouri, documenting the history of a uranium processing center. The film investigates how government and corporate negligence led to the illegal dumping of Manhattan Project radioactive waste throughout North County neighborhoods. We witness the power of […]
Following his acclaimed film Chasing Ice, director Jeff Orlowski sets out to chronicle the environmental devastation happening to the world’s coral reefs. With gorgeous cinematography, the film takes us to an undersea world most of us will never encounter up close. Time-lapse photography documents the heartbreaking losses of coral in the Great Barrier Reef and […]
NYC PREMIERE America’s desire for cheaper, more convenient food has fueled the demise of traditional agriculture and the birth of factory farming. Based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer and produced and narrated by Natalie Portman, this unflinching exposé features hidden-camera footage exposing animal abuse and the toxic conditions under which our food is produced. […]
NYC PREMIERE In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). MXC would be the city of the future, a domed metropolis for 250,000 pioneering residents, built from […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Landscape designer Piet Oudolf has been called a visionary. He’s known for designing public works like New York City’s popular High Line and Chicago’s Millennium Park that redefine our conception of gardens from mere backdrops to works of art in themselves. Five Seasons offers viewers an immersion into this modern-day Dutch master’s […]
Part of our Bring a Friend special – get 2 tickets for the price of 1! NYC PREMIERE Is it possible for America to meet its energy needs via renewable sources, or is our country fated to remain addicted to fossil fuels? Director James Redford sets out on a far-ranging quest to get a sense […]
WORLD PREMIERE Over the past decade, biodiesel has developed from a curiosity to a growing industry with the potential to undercut the dominance of Big Oil and fuel America’s transportation needs — and it all starts with recycled cooking oil. Once considered waste, fast- food grease is now a hot commodity, supporting a cottage industry of […]
NYC PREMIERE Nuclear power has been vilified in popular culture as dangerous and harmful to the environment, but it may actually be the solution for the world’s future energy needs. Teams of nuclear engineers are developing next-generation reactors which can provide clean, safe energy to prevent global catastrophe due to climate change, and transform popular […]
Part of our Bring a Friend special – get 2 tickets for the price of 1! WORLD PREMIERE Louisiana has suffered from hurricanes, flooding and oil spills, but nothing has been as insidious as the nutria. This giant swamp rat, known for its distinctive orange buckteeth, is prone to tunneling and eating plant roots, threatening […]