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 couple of principles guide our approach to A Fierce Green Fire. First of all is a focus on environmentalism as a movement, looking at it in terms of people fighting for change, using stories of activism to get at issues and ideas. Second is going for the big picture, bringing together all the parts of environmentalism and understanding it as a whole – from the conservation era to climate change, from pollution to resource issues, from saving the biosphere…

Mark Kitchell – Director/Producer A veteran documentarian, Kitchell is best known for Berkeley in the Sixties -- which was nominated for an Academy Award, won many top honors, and has become one of the definitive films about the protest movements that gripped America in the 1960s. His other films include Integral Consciousness and The Godfather Comes to Sixth St. He works as a writer/producer and segment director of non-fiction television, and has a long career in film…