About the Film
Overview: It’s the largest movement the world has ever seen, and maybe the most important – in terms of what’s at stake. Yet it’s not easy being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the…
A Fierce Green Fire is the first film to take on environmentalism as a whole, to bring together all the parts and eras, from conservation to climate change. It explores how the issues built into an international cause, the largest movement the world has ever seen and perhaps the most crucial in terms of what’s at stake. It’s not easy being green – every battle is against the odds. We focus on successes: halting dams in the Grand Canyon; rescuing…
A rough-cut of the full film was finished in May of 2010, and we managed to bring each act down to 20-25 minutes. The response, at a series of work-in-progress screenings and among colleagues and funders, has been very promising. The basic work -- of bringing together the pieces of a movement, structuring the shape and flow of the film, turning stories into scenes that make sense and get at meanings – is successfully done. It’s looking like the film…
Mark is best known for Berkeley in the Sixties, which won top honors and has become a well-loved classic, one of the defining documentaries about the protest movements that shook America during the 1960s. He produced, directed and wrote the film, led a huge archival research effort as well as a successful distribution campaign. In the twenty years since that film he has worked in non-fiction television, made films for hire, taught at UC Santa Cruz, done various freelance production…
$300,000 has been raised as of 2011, from fifteen grants and numerous individual contributions. Our deepest thanks to the people who make it all possible:Gould Family FoundationSundance Documentary FundCalifornia Council for the HumanitiesWallace Alexander Gerbode FoundationLEF FoundationNu Lambda TrustMarion HuntPohaku FundFred Gellert Family FoundationFleishhacker FoundationSusan DrudingLucius & Eva Eastman FundAndrew Norman FoundationIndividual donorsand a modest inheritance from Charlotte Kitchell that got things started
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