Stream Green With These 8 Titles On Fandor This Earth Day

April 21 // Jared Leto, 2016
FIVE PART SERIES. Directed by Fandor’s Chief Creative Officer, Jared Leto, this is a documentary series celebrating America’s National Parks and the incredible adventurers who explore them. The series features Jared alongside some of America’s greatest outdoor adventurers, including Sasha DiGiulian, Tommy Caldwell, Renan Ozturk, Alex Honnold, Peter Popinchalk and Douglas Smith.

Sam Cullman & Marshall Curry, 2011

On December 7th, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front, an organization the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT is the remarkable story of the group’s rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF. Using never-before-seen archival footage and intimate interviews (with cell members and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them) IF A TREE FALLS asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism and the way we define terrorism.

Recognition: 2011 Sundance Film Festival

                      Documentary Film Editing Award

**Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2012 Academy Awards®.

Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein, 2009

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption, no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s film provides a front row seat into the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin’s and Michelle’s struggle with this radical lifestyle change.

Recognition: Official Selection at: Sundance Film Festival – 2009

                                                                 Silverdocs Film Festival – 2009

                                                                 Los Angeles Film Festival – 2009

                                                                Docville – 2010

Taggart Siegel, 2010

WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US? is a profound, alternative look at the bee crisis. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this alarming and ultimately uplifting film weaves together an unusual and dramatic story of the heart-felt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world.

Recognition: 2010 International Documentary Association 

          Pare Lorentz Award – Honorable Mention

Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988

Set in 19th-century British Columbia, THE BEAR follows the story of a young cub and an adult grizzly as they join forces to survive the perils inherent in their mountain habitat. With each passing obstacle, the two bears further develop a friendship that can only make them stronger – but will it be enough for them to overcome their most deadly enemy?

Patricio Guzmán, 2015

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian indigenous people, of the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Recognition: 2015 Bergen International Film Festival

                      Check Points Human Rights Award – Honorable Mention

Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016

A film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we’re gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago. HOMO SAPIENS is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario.

Rose Stapel, 2016

In a picturesque garden on a grand country estate, two long time friends, an 85-year old pruning master and the gardener, tend to the espaliers. Surrounded by vegetable patches, citrus trees, the orchard and lush grapevines, they talk about food, the weather, their craft (which is quickly disappearing) and the changing world around them. For fifteen years, they’ve been working on the pear arbor. But will it finally come together this year? And what about the harvest? Will it be ready for the end-of season banquet? Capturing one year in the life of this historic garden, the magnificent documentary Portrait of a Garden is a beautiful, transcendent viewing experience.

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