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Building a Longhouse as a Cultural Center

* New title added January 2023 *

If Not Us Then Who?  Film 2 of 7 
Kynan Tegar, a young Indigenous filmmaker, documents a cultural revival and the consruction of a traditional longhouse for the first time in 50 years.

Face to Face Media | 2021 | 12 minutes

Brazil's Women Warriors

* New title added January 2023 *
If Not Us Then Who?  Film 6 of 7 

400,000 women harvest the nuts of the babassu palm, which is used to produce soap, oil, bread, charcoal,and cosmetics, providing them a modest living. When access to the trees was denied, a movement began.

Face to Face Media | 2014 | 8 minutes

Regenerating Life

Regenerating Life takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis.

Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 137 minutes

5x5: Voices of Change from the Forests of Indonesia + Hope: Indigenous Climate Change Solutions

Five short films from Indigenous communities across Indonesia show their response to threats to their forests posed by miners, loggers, palm oil plantations and global warming. In the sixth film a Dayak Iban community inspires hope as it offers a simple solution to the global climate crisis.

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Face to Face Media | 2008 | 37 minutes

Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - Part 1

Using natural processes as the model for agriculture and business.

Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 44 minutes

Insecticides: A License to Kill

The insect apocalypse is here and pesticides are to blame.

Icarus Films | 2022 | 58 minutes

Creatures of the Sun

The ecology of the painted turtle.

Bullfrog Films | 1998 | 24 minutes

Arrows Against the Wind

West Papua, the "Amazon of Asia" is a vast tropical rainforest that has been occupied for  25,000 years.  The Dani and the Asmat people have lived in spiritual harmony with the land for millennia. Now they are threatened by Indonesia's policy of assimilation and the destruction of their lands. This title has one or more clips.

Face to Face Media | 1993 | 52 minutes

Keepers of the Future

Following El Salvador's civil war, a farmers' cooperative puts down roots, builds resilience and provides a model of how to mitigate climate change and resist unsustainable, extractive development.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 24 minutes

Waking the Green Tiger

Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists, Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary, unprecedented, and successful campaign to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in the high mountains of southwestern China. 

Face to Face Media | 2010 | 78 minutes