9:00 - 10:15 p.m.     “Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America” (74 minutes): Directed and produced by Kelly Duane. This film is the story of a true American legend, who is also an artist, publisher, filmmaker and crusader. His fiery dedication and activism inspired the environmental movement. The film documents the golden age of American environmentalism, when Brower took the Sierra Club from a regional hiking group into a national political force.

Saturday, April 25

An Earth Day Fun Run, including the 10K West Mountain Challenge and 5K Whittington Park Fun Run/Walk will be held at 9 a.m. For additional information, please contact coordinator Jamie Anderson at janderson@garvangardens.org. Registration from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. at Parkside Cycle

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12:00 - 1:00 p.m.     “Trashed” (approximately 20 minutes): “Trashed” is a road trip through the afterlife of your garbage. This unpredictable documentary dives into the trash can and comes up in some surprising places. From the garbage truck to the landfill, from the streets to the ocean, it explores America's complicated relationship with its waste through the lens of the people whose lives revolve around it. “Gimme Green” (approximately 30 minutes): "Gimme Green" is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets, and our outlook on life From the limitless subdivisions of Florida to sod farms in the arid southwest. This documentary peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation's largest irrigated crop - the lawn.

2:00 - 3:00 p.m.     “Everythings Cool” (approximately 60 minutes): "Everythings Cool" is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm every to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded naysayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo-scientic deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy - and fast! Official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

5:00 – 6:30 p.m.     “King Corn” (88 minutes): Film sponsored by Good Earth Foods. King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

6:30 - 6.45 p.m.     Q & A with Courtney Butler, Commissioner of the Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.     “Kilowatt Hours: A Plan to Re-energize America” (56 minutes): Film sponsored by the Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission. Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself and asks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey, Barrie explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by energy production including mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming. Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities who are leading the way, using energy conservation, efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easily make a difference and here’s how!” Awards: 2008 Greenspirit Award/GreenDance Film Festival; 2008 Katherine Knight Award/Earth Vision Film Festival;

8:00 - 8:30 p.m.     Q & A and "how to make a difference locally" with members of the Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission

9:00 – 10:15 p.m.     “30 Years On The Frontlines” (21 minutes): Produced by Sea Shepherd Conservation Organization. What are Whale Wars? For over 30 years, Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd have been sailing the high seas enforcing international conservation law to protect marine wildlife. This is their incredible story told through the eyes of the media and accounts from Paul Watson and his crew mates. With an unblemished safety record, Sea Shepherd does what no other organization in the world will do: combat illegal poaching and destruction of marine wildlife. With rare footage and interviews, 30 Years On The Frontline will take you for a ride with the most hard-lined, aggressive and effective conservation group on the planet.

9:00 – 10:15 p.m.     “Devil’s Teeth” (10 minutes): A short documentary film about the only sea urchin diver at the Farallon Islands off the coast of California, his dreams of and frequent encounters with Great White Sharks, his past shooting downers and getting Hepatitis C and finding transcendence in unlikely places.

9:00 – 10:15 p.m.     “The Story of Stuff” (20 minutes): This fast-paced, fact-filled film looks at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, exposing the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

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12:00 - 1:00 p.m.     “A Land Out of Time” (60 minutes): Time is running out for vast swaths of the Rocky Mountain West as millions of acres of public land are sold for oil and gas drilling. Westerners on the land for generations expose the dramtic changes to the landscape and their heritage and spark a backlash. Just who is in charge of our public lands...the oil and gas industry or the American people?

2:00 - 3:15 p.m.     “Running Madness” (75 minutes): Running Madness grants you access into a world that inspires both the inner hero and the inner cynic: the world of ultramarathons. Meet the new crazy ultrarunner, who endeavors to run 100 miles through arduous mountainous terrain with no sleep, no hot meals and questionable common sense in 30 hours or less. Set to a rock ‘n roll soundtrack with an eye for the beauty of the Squaw Valley landscape and an ear for the humor and hopes of the participants, Running Madness brings to life the common language of running, the intrinsic desire for camaraderie and the wonderfully equalizing effect of lots and lots of mountains, rocks and trees. (Free admission with Earth Day Fun Run/Walk registration)

3:20      Q & A with Arkansas Ultra Runners Association (AURA) President Stan Ferguson

5:00 - 6:20 p.m.     “Secret Spot” (78 minutes): Travel to a remote Texas river to enjoy a glimpse of this secluded paradise. The Secret Spot, documents a weekend spent at the river the filmmaker fell in love with as a child and has never outgrown. Experience the quiet splendor of the landscape as well as the raw power of the athletes who come here for recreation or to train for national and world competitions. Many of the diverse and colorful people who are drawn to these waters have been coming for generations and are passing their love of the river and passion for their sport onto their children. Cast includes Mike Seipel, two time World Chamption Barefooter; Michelle Simpson, 2003 World Champtionship slalom bronze medialist, and more In all, it features three world champtions, four national champtions, ten regional champions, and a bunch of river rats. The film won the Audience Award at the Deep Ellum Film Festival. Winner of the "Giurlande d' Honneur" for "Best Documentary" at the FICTS International Sports Film Festival in Milan, Italy. Nominated "Best Director" at the Krasnogorski FICTS International Sports Film Festival in Moscow, Russia.

6:20 - 6:45 p.m.     Q & A with filmmakers Gavin and Curtis Callaway and David Barrow who collaborated to produce direct, film, and edit this film.

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.     Ozark Conservation Film Features: “Buffalo Flows” (60 minutes): Internationally known as an outstanding canoe stream, this 135-mile river, free of dams, is so much more, and the film captures what is protected. The story is about the bluffs and the trees, the flowers and the birds, and the giant elk. It’s about hiking and floating and camping and fishing. And it’s also about the people who make their homes in Buffalo River country year round, and have for generations. The Buffalo River is born in the Ozark Mountains, springing from the hills and into rock framed valleys carved by weather and ageless time. It is our first national river—a place folks fought to preserve. Written and produced by Emmy award-winning documentarian Larry Foley, a University of Arkansas journalism professor and edited by his filmmaking partner, Dale Carpenter, also a U of A journalism professor. The masterful images of the Buffalo National River were captured by Fayetteville resident, Trey Marley.“The Naturalist” (30 minutes): Kent Bonar, who has been called the “John Muir of the Ozarks,” is one of America’s great naturalists. Living without modern amenities in the tradition of Thoreau, Leopold, and Muir, Bonar has spent his life observing and recording the natural history of the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks. The Naturalist documents the work and philosophies of this extraordinary modern-day woodsman.

9:00 - 10:20 p.m.     “Garbage Warrior” (87 minutes):An epic story of radical Earthship eco-architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to build off-the-grid, self-sufficient communities. 2008 Sundance Film Festival winner. Filmed and directed by Oliver Hodge.

Sunday, April 26

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1:00 - 2:30 p.m.     Children’s Short Film Sunday: “Gorilla in the Green House” (7 minutes); “Story of Stuff” (20 minutes); “The Good Life” (3 minutes); “Papiroflexia” (3 minutes); “Ride of the Merganser” (5 minutes); "Under My Own Power" (22 minutes); Under My Own Power is a lyrical portrait of three Arkansas residents from very different backgrounds, all linked by a love for their bikes. More than just a celebration of cycle, the film is a poignant and funny glimpse into the lives of three unique individuals.

Q & A with Hot Springs Bicycle Association and Parkside Cycle

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.     “Troubled Waters” (60 minutes): Arkansas is a water rich state, but growth in agriculture, industry, and population strain this once abundant resource. Farmers, geologists, experts, and concerned citizens share their opinions and stories about how water is managed in Arkansas and what we need to do to protect this irreplaceable resource.

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.     “Who Killed the Electric Car?” (92 minutes): Film sponsored by Electric Transport of Arkansas. A Must See! This documentary film explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology. However, the future looks bright!

8:30 - 9:00 p.m.     Q & A with representatives from Electric Transport of Arkansas regarding electric cars and models currently available in Arkansas.

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1:00 - 2:30 p.m.     Adventure Sunday: “Underground Arkansas” (30 minutes) Those who explore the natural wonders of the Arkansas Ozarks - miles of unspoiled forests, lakes, rivers and much more, might not realize how close they tread to another wilderness just beneath the surface. Below the rolling hills, lush valleys, and clear-running streams of the Natural State is an often dazzling underworld - the limestone caves of the Ozarks. Join AETN on the amazing expedition and discover the mystery and majesty of the beautiful unspoiled regions of undergound Arkansas. "Forgotten Expedition" (56 minutes) Most Americans have heard the story of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery that was sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new Louisiana Purchase from 1804-1806. What most people do not realize is that Jefferson also commissioned a second expedition to explore the southern areas of that new frontier. The president asked William Dunbar, a Mississippi planter/scientist/surveyor and George Hunter, a Philadelphia chemist/apothecary to lead that expedition on the Red, Black, and Quachita Rivers up to "the hot springs."

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.     “Garden Story: The Missouri Botanical Garden” (30 minutes): The central role of botanical gardens in preserving biodiversity and educating the public in environmental issues through researching, preserving, and propagating endangered plant species is depicted through a fascinating presentation of the innovative and effective educational programs and global research agendas of the largest center for the study of plants in the world.

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.     Q & A and presentation with Bob Byers, Garvan Woodland Gardens’ resident landscape architect

5:00 - 6:33 p.m.     “FLOW” (93 minutes): FLOW (For the Love Of Water) chronicles the stories of people across the world as they fight for their right to water: it follows a community of concerned citizens in Michigan as they take on a corporate water-bottling plant; it shows the massive protests of the Bolivian people against water privatization; it documents simple technology implemented across India to cope with water shortages. FLOW was an official selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It won the International Jury Prize at the 2008 Mumbai Film Festival, as well as awards at the Flagstaff Mountain and Vail Film Festivals.

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.     “Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-energize America” (56 minutes): Film sponsored by the Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission. Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself and asks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey, Barrie explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by energy production including mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming. Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities who are leading the way, using energy conservation, efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easily make a difference and here’s how!” Awards: 2008 Greenspirit Award/GreenDance Film Festival; 2008 Katherine Knight Award/Earth Vision Film Festival.

8:00 - 8:30 p.m.     Q & A with members of the Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission

Sponors for the festival include: Arkansas Entergy Office, Arkansas Film Commission Office, Hot Springs Community Foundation, Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission, New Belgium Brewery, Good Earth Foods of Hot Springs, Family Care Chiropractic Center of Hot Springs, Electric Transport of Arkasnsas, Spa Pacers, and Rod's Pizza.

Environmental Groups Attending: Sustainability Arkansas, Newton County Wildlife Association, Audubon Arkansas, Sierra Club, and Repower Arkanas.