Mary Bruno spent her childhood along one of the most polluted waterways in America. Decades later, she wrote An American River: From Paradise to Superfund (2012) and eventually teamed with filmmaker Scott Morris and river-guide Carl Alderson to kayak the river of her youth and tell its story with a … [Read more...]
Movies with Nature
THE QUIET EPIDEMIC, streaming from April 7 through 13
After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The Quiet Epidemic follows their search for answers, which lands them in the middle of a vicious medical debate. What … [Read more...]
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
Final week! Must end on Oct 28. Renowned forester and writer Peter Wohlleben guides us through his understanding of how trees work as he discusses, debates and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed, and the amazing scientific mechanisms behind them of which … [Read more...]
WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL recording available through 4/28
Rivertown Film and ROSA4Rockland, the grassroots environmental non-profit, once again teamed up to present this creative evening of award-winning shorts that combine poignant story-telling and gorgeous cinematography. As in 2020, this year’s festival will be online, but live and with local content, … [Read more...]
BEARS OF DURANGO, rescheduled for streaming at 6PM on Sunday, August 16
TICKET SALES END AT 6:00 PM ON SUNDAY. Our region may not be quite as much bear country as Durango is, where this film is shot, but we are increasingly likely to see these large animals on the streets of our villages and suburbs. Why is this happening? Can we coexist? Dive headfirst into bear … [Read more...]
HELD OVER! THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES, from Rivertown Film and Rockland Organized for Sustainability and a Safe Aquifer
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. In THE WOMAN WHO LOVES … [Read more...]
THE WILD AND SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL: ONLINE, hosted ROSA 4 Rockland and Rivertown Film
IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED VIEWING INSTRUCTIONS, PLEASE CHECK YOU EMAIL SPAM FOLDERS The Wild & Scenic Film Festival WILL GO ON despite Covid-19 social distancing. For the first time, this two-hour selection of 14, family-friendly short films curated from the nation’s … [Read more...]
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
ONLINE TICKET SALES END AT 3:00 ON 10/16, but tickets will still be available at the door. Doors open at 7:30. John Chester and his wife Molly left Los Angeles to establish a farm where they could live in anti-corporate harmony with nature. Nature gives but it also takes away, and eventually they … [Read more...]
WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL, presented with ROSA
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival celebrates the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet and the work communities are doing to protect it. The largest environmental film festival in the US launches in Nevada City, then tours the country, while making its way to the historic Lafayette … [Read more...]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival, presented by Rockland Organized for Sustainability and a Safe Aquifer, and Rivertown Film
Enjoy the great outdoors in one of the great movie palaces, at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Earth Day (Sunday, April 22). Celebrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. This is the largest environmental film … [Read more...]
IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, presented by Rockland Farm Alliance
Based on author and food advocate Michael Pollan's 2008 book, In Defense of Food explores the risks of diet-related diseases, and the value of eating healthy foods. That book was inspired by a speech that writer and Piermont resident, Joan Gussow shared with Michael in 2003. This film … [Read more...]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival, presented by Rockland Organized for a Sustainability and a Safe Aquifer (ROSA) and Rivertown Film
Get high on nature at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on 4/20. celebrates the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. It is the largest environmental film festival held in the US. After the festival launches in Nevada City, … [Read more...]
WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL presented by ROSA for Rockland and Rivertown Film
Wednesday, April 20 – 7:30 PM at the Lafayette Theatre, Suffern Wild & Scenic Film Festival Wild and Scenic celebrates the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. It is the largest environmental film festival held in … [Read more...]
