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EARTH VISION The 16th Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival
Environmental Film for Children Category
Screening of the 2nd selection
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http / www.earth-vision.jp
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[Date]
Nov. 18 Sun.
[Place]
2F Shinjuku Gyoen Information Center, Tokyo
(11 Naitocho, Shinjuku-ku, Shinjuku, Tokyo Tel. 03-3350-4143)
10 minutes-walk from South Exit of JR Shinjuku station,
5 minutes-walk from Marunouchi Line Shinnjuku-gyoen-mae station
* Shinjuku Gyoen Information Center is next to Shinjuku-mon.
-Admission Free-
*The schedule may be changed without notice.
**The Films will be screened in their original language.
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Screening Schedule
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10:00
*Plunge of the Penguins
(New Zealand / Director: Andrew W. Marshall / 2006 / 20min.)
This film depicts how Gentoo penguins live in the harsh Antarctic environment. Parents raise their chicks, the young makes their first journey from the nest, and they survive the winter.
*The Sea Horse
(Germany / Director: Tim Forderer / 2003 / 5min.)
The film depicts the mysterious life of the sea horse, which looks nothing like a fish.
*Evergreen Broadleaf Forest: the Cradle of Culture
(Japan / Director: Hotta Yasuo / 2007 / 27min.)
The film introduces a rich forest endowed with acorn-bearing, non-deciduous types of oak trees, red-flowering camellia japonica, camphor trees and fatsia, and a culture nurtured by the forest.
*** Intermission ***
11:00
*Budapest Wild
(Hungary / Director: Zsolt Marcell Toth / 2006 / 34min.)
A tapestry of Budapest, woven with the lives of diverse living things inhabiting the city.
*Fisheye Fantasea
(Fiji / Director: Guy Chaumette / 2007 / 8min.)
The ocean in the fisheye is full of wonders and beauty.
*Man and Whale
(Japan / Director: Yamamura Koji / 2007 / 2min.)
At a school facing the ocean, the old principal was lost in thought looking at the picture of a whale he drew when he was a young boy. Then, he saw something in the sea….
*The Meatrix
(USA / Director: Louis Fox / 2006 / 11min.)
Leo, the pig, is living in a beautiful farm. One day, Moopheus, the bull, shows up and Leo’s adventure to uncover the farm’s truth begins.
*Spring
(Finland / Director: Jaana Wahlforss / 2005 / 7min.)
The winter was so cold that even polar bears suffered from the cold and hunger. When the spring finally arrived, an old man went out hunting in a kayak.
*** Intermission ***
13:00
*Puffing Away
(Canada / Director: Isaac King / 2006 / 3min.)
The poetic art animation vividly represents mankind feeding its greed, with the consequences expanding to engulf the earth day by day, and also a little hope starting to bud.
*The Cat’s Cut
(Belgium / Director: Jeremy Hamers / 2006 / 52min.)
The film depicts the life of a migrant worker in a Brazilian sugarcane plantation, with his letters introduced with vivid images. The film zeroes in on the site where “clean” bio-fuel is produced.
*** Intermission ***
14:00
*For the Masses
(USA / Director: Corrie Francis / 2007 / 5min.)
Highways are built to give access to a beautiful mountain area. City folks flocked there for a fleeting moment of relaxation….
*Human Development
(Spain / Director: David Munoz / 2007 / 29min.)
How different is the richest country Norway from the poorest country Niger? The Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Program got us thinking.
*A Son of Taiga
(Germany / Director: Andreas Voigt / 2006 / 29min.)
Following the life of a young boy, the film quietly depicts the life of an indigenous people, Khanty, nurtured in the severe environment of the mid-Ob River area in western Siberia, and traces the influence of oilfield development on these people.
*** Intermission ***
15:10
*Carpa Diem
(Italy / Director: Sergio Cannella / 2006 / 2min.)
A young girl is staring at a carp in the fish tank. Suddenly, the water in the fish tank….
*Green Hit Squad
(UK / Director: Penny Evans / 2007 / 11min.)
The Green Hit Squad is working hard in an effort to arrest global warming, but its activities are not appreciated by the police and….
*The Recycle
(Laos / Director: Sengsai Vilayvorn / 2007 / 3min.)
Milk cartons have always been thrown out as garbage. How can these cartons be recycled? The children started thinking….
*Compost Can Save the Earth?: The Recycling Life of a Mother and a Daughter Using Cardboard Boxes for Compost
(Japan / Director: Miyakawa Naoko / 2007 / 24min.)
Compost containers for recycling raw refuse have not caught on because they are expensive and take up space. The film presents a solution, using cardboard boxes for compost.
*Our Sea
(Indonesia / Director: Yahdi Zamhur / 2006 / 21min.)
For the children who go to school on a boat, the sea is a dear friend. In an effort to recover the lost coral reef, the children join hands with adults and NGOs.
16:10 End of the Screening
