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Award-Winning Wildlife Films from the 2005 Jackson
Hole Wildlife Film Festival
Tour the U.S. and Overseas
March 10, 2006 JACKSON, Wyo. The Jackson
Hole Wildlife Film Festival (JHWFF) is pleased to announce
the best wildlife films of the year, from the recent 2005
Festival, are traveling around the country and overseas as
part of their Best of Festival tour. Films from this
most-prestigious wildlife film festival will be featured
at screening events in Colorado, Washington D.C., and Alaska
over the next few months.
"We are delighted to launch the Festival Tour this year," noted Bill Grant, the
JHWFF Board Chair and Head of Science Programming for WNET. "Making America's
foremost natural history festival accessible year-round throughout North America
and across the globe will greatly expand the reach of these remarkable films."
The 2006 tour began with a featured screening of Earthling , winner
of Best Achievement in Sound and Best Children's Program, during the third
Aranyak Wildlife Film Festival in Calcutta, India. The special screening, on
January 28 th , was presented by the American Center in Calcutta as one of
the many public diplomacy activities of the U.S. Consulate General in that
area.
This weekend the 35 th Annual Conference on Environmental Law is offering a
special screening of Strange Days on Planet Earth: Troubled Waters (finalist
in the Best Environmental Program category) in Keystone, Colorado. Producer
Jonathan Halperin will be on hand following the screening, to discuss the making
of this challenging project.
A number of Festival winners and finalists will also be screened at the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. during the 14 th annual
Environmental Film Festival, March 16-26 . "To celebrate the field craft, scientific
rigor and consummate artistry of these filmmakers in this National Museum,
with its own rich history and future, is a real privilege," remarks Deborah
Rothberg, Public Programs Coordinator for the Museum. In collabora tion
with over 50 local, national and international organizations, including JHWFF
and the Museum of Natural History, the Environmental Film Festival presents
100 outstanding films from around the world. Films screen at venues all throughout
Washington, D.C., and most screenings are free.
Screenings are March 25 and 26 th at the National Museum of Natural History,
and include the following Jackson Hole films: Ants--Nature's Secret
Power; Capuchins: the Monkey Puzzle ; Deep Jungle: New Frontiers;
Europe, A Natural History: Genesis; The Good, the Bad and the Grizzly; Miracle
Planet II: The Violent Past; and Strange Days on Planet Earth: Predators. All
of these screenings are free.
The tour will continue on to beautiful Homer, Alaska, where a series of the
Best of JHWFF will be showcased at the Inaugural Kachemak Nature Film Festival,
May 4-7. The Kachemak Nature Festival is a community event and local fundraiser
for the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust.
Since its beginnings in 1991, JHWFF has remained an unparalleled industry gathering
of over 600 television and film professionals from around the world. The
Festival's film competition is extremely competitive, with nearly 400 films
entered into competition each Festival. From hundreds of entries, only 3 films
are selected as finalists in each of the Festival's 17 competition categories.
The next Festival and Film Competition will be held in 2007.
For information about the Environmental Film Festival, visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
For information about the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, visit www.mnh.si.edu
For information about the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, visit http://www.jhfestival.org |
