Wildlife Conservation Film Festivals

4th Annual New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival
October 1-5, 2013

Tuesday, October 1
Opening Reception & Fundraiser
Location: TBA

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Wednesday, October 2
Crosby Street Hotel & Theater

Series 1
6:00-8:00 PM

Series 2
8:30-10:30 PM

Reception with Filmmakers
10:30
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Thursday, October 3
Crosby Street Hotel & Theater

Series 3
6:00-8:00 PM

Series 4
8:30-10:30 PM

Reception with Filmmakers
10:30

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Friday, October 4
Crosby Street Hotel & Theater

Series 5
6:00-8:00 PM

Series 6
8:30-10:30 PM

Reception with Filmmakers
10:30

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Saturday, October 5
Crosby Street Hotel & Theater

Series 7
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (Films for Children & Families)

Series 8
12:30-2:30 PM

All Star Panel Discussion
3:00-4:45 PM
Mingle with the All Star’s
4:45-5:45

Series 9
6:00-8:00 PM

Series 10
8:30-10:30 PM

Closing Reception
10:30 PM
Cocktails & Conversation with the Filmmakers, Speakers and all event guests.

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Selection of some of the films to be screened:

Return to the Forest
* Patricia Sims, Producer
Narrated by William Shatner
30 minutes

Belugas Speaking Through Time
* Patrcia Sims, Producer
50 minutes

Last Journey of the Leatherback?
Stan Minasian, Producer
25 minutes

Shark Riddle
Laura & Jeff Sams, Producers
20 minutes

Plight of the North Atlantic Right Whale
* Jeff Middelstadt, Producer
20 minutes

Uakari: Secrets of the English Monkey
Peter and Sheera Von Puttkamer
48 minutes

Diving with Crocodiles
Smithsonian Network Television

Dancers on Fire
Smithsonian Network Television

Scars of Freedom
Celine Cousteau, Producer
5 minutes

Wolverine: Hyenas of the North
* Oliver Goetzl, Producer
45 minutes

Reefs End
Blue Sphere Media
Shawn Heinricks, Producer
15 minutes

Jungle Book Bear
* Oliver Goetzl, Producer
Narrated by David Attenborough
50 minutes

Return of the Clouded Leopard
* Sandesh Kadur, Producer
50 minutes

Kaziranga, Land of the Rhino and Tiger
* Sandesh Kadur, Producer
25 minutes

The Bonobo Connection
* Irene A. Magafan, Producer
Narrated by Ashley Judd
30 minutes

Battle for the Elephants
* John Heminway. Producer
50 minutes

The Eskimo and The Whale
Jenn Hofmann, Producer
60 minutes

A Call in the Forest: Plight of the Lion-tailed Macques
Sabyasachi Patra, Producer
India Wilds
20 minutes

Big Dream Little Bears
Wildhoop Productions
Howard Jackson, Producer
50 minutes

Counting Penguins
* Bill Kinzie, Producer
Lindblad Expeditions
25 minutes

The Wild Colours of Cuba
* Tania Escobar
15 minutes

Magic of the Snowy Owl
NATURE
50 minutes

Threatened: The Controversial Struggle of the Southern Sea Otter
Palomar College Television
40 minutes

In the Land of the Swamper
* Maja Zonjic, Producer
15 minutes

Laikipia, The Land of Life
* Giuseppe Bucciarelli, Producer
37 minutes

Ahmed and the Return of the Arab Phoenix
* Giuseppe Bucciarelli, Producer
23 minutes
Language: Italian (subtitled in English)

Spotter Come-Home
* Giuseppe Bucciarelli, Producer
7 minutes

Walking with Baboons
* Giuseppe Bucciarelli, Producer
7 minutes
Language: Italian (subtitled in English)

Tal Chappar: The Indian Savanna
Rituraj Devaang Jain, Producer

Barbara Roberts-Mother of all Hedgehogs
Abigail Brown, Producer
8 minutes

Baja
Erick Higuera, Producer
5 minutes

Kamchatka: Wild Russia
Light & Shadow Productions
Christian Baumeister, Producer
45 minutes

Ituri: Land of the Okapi
S.O. Taylor, Producer
20 minutes

Last Stand of the African Lion
* Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson, Producers

Walking Thunder (Trailer)
* Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson
6 minutes

The Drill Project (El Proyecto del Mono Dril)
* Justin Jay, Producer
40 minutes
Language: Spanish (subtitled in English)

Saving the Oceans: Sacred Island
Dr. Carl Safina, Producer
25 minutes

Rhinoceroses: The Curse of the Magic Horn
Explora Films
52 minutes

An Unexpected Find
Richard Mann, Producer
10 minutes

 

* Filmmakers attending

Oliver Goetzl
Irene A. Magafan
John Heminway
Tania Escobar
Bill Kinzie
Justin Jay
Dr. Carl Safina
Giuseppe Bucciarelli
Maja Zonjic
Sandesh Kadur
Patricia Sims
Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson

* Special Guest Speakers

Ian Redmond, Ambassador
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

Jon Bowermaster
Author, Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer