Three Gorges exodus complete
July 24, 2008
BEIJING - After four years of migration, over 4 million people have been evacuated from their homes to make way for the waters of China’s gargantuan hydroelectric project. Read more
Popularity: 1%
Bond races to rescue South American reservoir in Quantum of Solace
July 23, 2008
The newest James Bond flick, perpetuating its Casino Royale pursuits, puts a betrayed 007 to work chasing after sinister CIA-linked opportunist Dominic Greene. As Bond discovers, Greene intends to take over a seemingly barren piece of land, which actually harbors beneath its arid facade one of South America’s largest reservoirs. Read more
Popularity: 2%
Water is the trope at Traverse City Film Festival’s showing of Idiocracy
July 23, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - A funky dystopian comedy, Idiocracy heralds water as the common-sense solution to crop failure in a highly-privatized futuristic world. Read more
Popularity: 2%
Herzog film captures life atop planet’s largest freshwater preserve
July 23, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - In Werner Herzog’s filmic journey to Antarctica, he engages a geographically marginalized society of marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers to understand the nuanced drama of their lives atop, within, and beneath the South Pole’s vast freshwater freeze. Read more
Popularity: 2%
Water shortage puts libido in limbo in film, Absurdistan
July 23, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - This year’s Traverse City Film Festival will show the lighter side of the water crisis with the film Absurdistan. The comedy, set in a fictional village of the former Eastern bloc, explores what happens when virile village men decide a broken pipeline can wait and women boycott in protest. Read more
Popularity: 2%
Up the Yangtze depicts social complexity of China’s Three Gorges Dam
July 21, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - In time for the Beijing Olympics, Up the Yangtze documents a journey into the heart of the Chinese Dream. With her family on the verge of becoming environmental refugees, Yu Shui departs to work for the opportunistic tourism company, Farewell Cruises, on the quickly changing Yangtze River. Read more
Popularity: 4%
Prize-winning film Trouble the Water wins festival accolades
July 21, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - Trouble the Water, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2008, documents the front lines of climate change in a cooperative production that takes viewers from the imminence to the aftermath of New Orlean’s Hurricane Katrina. Read more
Popularity: 3%
Sleep Dealer: Border control, mind control, and privatized water
July 21, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - Sleep Dealer, director Alex Rivera’s first film, explores a dystopian future of corporate-controlled water where Americans indenture the nervous systems of would-be Mexican immigrants to operate robots across the border. Read more
Popularity: 3%
Video: A conversation with former NASA astronaut and MIR cosmonaut, Jerry Linenger
July 8, 2008
NASA astronaut and MIR cosmonaut Jerry Linenger talks about his experiences in space, above the Circle of Blue. Linenger remarks on the similarities between the closed environment of a space station and the closed ecosystem of our blue planet. Read more
Popularity: 9%
Video: A conversation with Circle of Blue science advisor and president of the Pacific Institute, Peter Gleick
July 8, 2008
Peter Gleick, science advisor for Circle of Blue and president of the Pacific Institute, talks about the need to redefine how nations address water issues. Read more
Popularity: 9%
