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Award-winning filmmakers have created these short films, commissioned by Live
Earth, to showcase the diversity and creativity of the international response to
the climate crisis. The Live Earth Film Project premiered at the 2007 Tribeca
Film Festival and is sponsored by Absolut.
Film Title: "Sunny
Day" Director: Sophie Muller Film Synopsis: A
beautiful stylistic film encouraging the people of LA to ditch the tumble dryer
and encourage use of the eco-friendly washing line instead.
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Film Title: "Mermaid" Director:
Matt Tomaszewski Film Synopsis: This short film explores the ocean world as
it appears to a young girl.
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Film Title: "Sad
Fish" Director: Malcolm Venville Film Synopsis:
Using children as subjects for an investigation of contemporary environmental
issues.
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Film Title: "Wind" Director:
Chel White Film Synopsis: A short film that takes a look at
wind in relation to its environment, narrated by Alec Baldwin.
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Film Title: "Think (What Does It Take To Change
A Habit)" Director: Rupert
Jones Film Synopsis: A short film about environmental options in simple
commerce.
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Film Title: "Penguin In A
Pickle" Director: Alex Maclean Film
Synopsis: This animated short film follows the travels of a penguin set adrift
on a melting glacier.
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Film Title: "One Less
Car" Director: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Film
Synopsis: A documentary featuring cyclists in New York City.
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Film Title: "Polar Bear
Man" Director: Big TV Film
Synopsis: A short film about a man's experience with climate change and how it
mirrors the real-life challenges polar bears face with global warming.
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Film Title: "School
Run" Director: Ben and Joe
Dempsey Film Synopsis: This short film features a traffic officer who takes a
mom to task for driving a SUV, while also offering information on how SUVs
affect the environment.
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Film Title: "A Beginner's Guide To Giving A
Damn" Director: Al McCuish Film
Synopsis: This animated short film offers an informative and entertaining view
of how you can make a difference in the fight against global warming.
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Film Title: "The Village
Green" Director: Inigo Gilmore Film
Synopsis: This short film explores the first British community to go
"carbon-neutral".
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Film Title: "Spinal Tap
Reunites" Director: Rob Reiner Film Synopsis: David
St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel come to the rescue to raise
awareness about climate change and play for the Live Earth concerts on
7/7/07.
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Film Title: "Switch On, Switch
Off" Director: Chris Bran Film Synopsis: Featured at
this year's Tribeca Film Festival, this film takes a rhythmically graphic
exploration of what switching off and on a simple switch means in global
terms.
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Film Title: "Rubbish" Director:
D-Fuse Film Synopsis: Created by D-Fuse, a group of artists and designers who
explore the relationship between image and sound in creative media, this short
film reveals the rapid change in our environment caused by human exploitation.
It was featured at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Cow" Director:
Johan Renck Film Synopsis: Directed by Johan Renck, this film highlights the
effect intensive farming has on the environment. It appeared at this year's
Tribeca Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Bob & Harry: The Last Two
Polar Bears" Director: Sophie Keller
and Oli Barry Film Synopsis: Three short films directed by Sophie Keller and
Oli Barry follow the last two polar bears, Harry and Bob, as they go in search
of love, a home and food, only to find there are no polar bears left to love, no
place to live and no food to eat.
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Film Title: "Don't Let It All
Unravel" Director: Sarah Cox Film
Synopsis: Directed by Sarah Cox, this simple, striking film depicts the world as
knitting, only to slowly unravel over 90 seconds to nothing. It appeared at this
year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Cough, Cold and High
Fever" Director: Jason Archer Film
Synopsis: Directed by Jason Archer and Paul Beck, this animated dark comedy
features the Earth as the "hero." This film was featured in this year's Tribeca
Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Public Information
Broadcasts" Film Synopsis: Ten bold,
animated public-information films on how to save the planet. These films
appeared at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Earth
2.0" Director: Vernie Yeung Film
Synopsis: This short film shows the different carbon moments of our lives such
as driving, turning on lights, etc., as paired with different global warming
moments such as glaciers breaking apart and falling into the sea. It appeared at
this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Lightbulb" Director: Joe
Cole Film Synopsis: This clever "how-to" instructional parody directed by Joe
Cole demonstrates how to replace old light bulbs for new energy-efficient ones.
It appeared at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Film Title: "Hey
You" Film Synopsis: Music video of the
new Madonna song, created in support of Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate
in Crisis on 7/7/07
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Film Title: "Super Power
Bloke" Director: Sam Arthur Film
Synopsis: Directed by Sam Arthur, this animated film features a young boy as a
superhero who informs the public about simple things to do around the home to
lower carbon emissions. It was featured at this year's Tribeca Film
Festival.
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