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May 19, 2013
The 35th annual Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride is Memorial Day weekend. We’re thrilled to announce that this year’s line up includes our new film, Badru’s Story (see schedule). We’ve been told by many, that Mountainfilm is the festival not to miss. Unfortunately, a packed shooting schedule means we’ll have to do just that. Please enjoy the inspiring films, amazing community and indomitable spirit without us. We hope to join you next year!
April 28, 2013
Blue Earth’s second annual Collaborations for Cause conference has come and gone. This year’s event was in Portland and co-sponsored by Ecotrust. Benj facilitated a too-full-of-awesome-people panel on Constructing Collaborations. We also gave a five-minute Lightning Talk on how we turned a 400 page scientific report into four short and personal stories.
April 23, 2013
Earth Day was on April 22nd and Benj and I were at a magnificent party for Facing Climate Change. The event was hosted by our project partner, Cascadia Consulting Group, and our advisors, Spencer Reeder from Cascadia, Amy Snover from the Climate Impacts Group and Eric de Place from Sightline, spoke about their current work on climate change. We were also lucky enough to have Kathleen Nisbet from Oyster Farmers and Larry Campbell from Coastal Tribes share a few words with us after we screened their films. And finally, we have a new set of prints from our Pacific Northwest series! They were there, too. But the best part was the audience, a room full of movers and shakers all working to contribute to the story of climate change in their own way.
Later that week, we headed down to Portland and did a second Earth Day event at Ecotrust. Wenix Red Elk from Plateau Tribes joined us and brought the conversation down to root level. It was an honor to screen our films with our friends at Ecotrust. A big thanks to everyone who joined us there on a beautiful spring evening.
April 3, 2013
Our new film Oyster Farmers was recently featured as a PDN Pulse Video Pick by Photo District News. “The Team of Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele have long been using multimedia and video to get beyond statistics and portray the stories of individuals around the world whose lives are affected by climate change,” begins editor Holly Hughes. Read the rest of Holly’s wonderful post here.
April 1, 2013
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is indeed impenetrable. It’s especially so when you’re hauling camera and audio gear through the brush and trouble, trying to keep up with scientist Badru Mugerwa as he sets camera traps in this rugged corner of Uganda. Each year Badru sets 60 camera traps for Conservation International’s TEAM Network, a global web of field stations that provide an early warning system for loss of biodiversity in tropical forests. Badru and his fellow TEAM scientists have collected over one million images of mammals and birds to help guide conservation efforts.
March 31, 2013
We’re grateful to everyone who has helped to distribute our new Facing Climate Change films. Since they premiered at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in January, they have been part of a nationwide tour and have screened at events from Madison to Los Angeles and Norwalk, CT.
We shared Facing Climate Change with students at our local Liberty Bell High School and then Skyped into a seminar at Unity College in Maine. And they have been written about by Sightline Institute, YES! Magazine, Take Part and a number of others.
March 5, 2013
We’re excited to announce Collaborations for Cause 2013! If you’re a photographer, filmmaker or work in cause-driven communications, this conference is for you. Presented in partnership with Ecotrust, Blue Earth’s second annual event will take place April 26 and 27, 2013 in Portland, OR.
Collaborations for Cause brings together photographers, NGOs, activists and communications professionals to discuss the collaborative future of storytelling. The conference builds on Blue Earth’s mission to support photography that makes a difference through a combination of in-depth presentations and panel discussions, insightful case studies, and a full day of breakout sessions.
We’ve been working with a great team, including Jason Houston of Take One Creative, on this year’s program. Find the complete schedule and registration information on the Collaborations for Cause 2013 website.
March 1, 2013
We’re excited to be included in a group exhibit at the Kirkland Arts Center entitled “Human+Nature.” Curated by Anna Braden, the show chronicles how artists interpret the marks we leave on the landscape. Two good friends of ours, photographer Daniel Beltrá and artist Maria Coryell-Martin, are also featured. Anna is an M.A. candidate in Museology at the University of Washington and has documented the curation process on her blog. The show runs through April 6, 2013.
Photos courtesy of Anna Braden.
