YOUTHFEST - SATURDAY FEB 9TH

Good Riddance!
The Garden of Eatin', an organic fruit and vegetable garden, produces natural pesticide-free vegetables...just ask the snails who are devouring everything in sight! When Eco arrives, the garden's owner has crossed everything off of her sign except the potatoes which are safe underground. Eco comes up with an ingenious solution to the snail problem! Good RIddance lightheartedly cautions that solving problems the clean and green way isn't always easy while reminding us that cooperation rather than domination is most productive. 5 MINS (Australia)

Carpa Diem
After a young boy leaves a bathroom tap running idle, his sister began to witness the destruction first hand. She decides to take matters into her own hands and resolves to teach her brother the true meaning of water conservation with some help from her pet fish. 2 MINS (Italy)

The Running Wind
Come! Sit by the fire. Listen. I have a story... A primal, unspoken truth is the centerpiece of this film,which is presented as a fable. As the fable unfolds, the Pronghorn Antelope and the Cheetah reveal their inextricable connection, an instinctual link to their ancient ancestors. This film speaks to the child in us all, as we listen, breathlessly, to our Elder telling a favorite story. 9 MINS (U.S.)

Turtle World
A lone sea turtle travels through space, her breath creating a whole new atmosphere. This becomes filled with forests, rivers, mountains and enterprising monkeys...so enterprising that they are forced to learn about sustainability the hard way. Delightful, award-winning animation that comments ruefully on our relationship with the natural world. 9 MINS (Australia)

Lost in the Woods
This film is about an old box turtle named Shirley, a lost raccoon named Hernandafandavez, and the mystery of a tiny newborn fawn sleeping alone in the woods. Combining live video with stunning wildlife photography, this award-winning film based on the best-selling children's book weaves a delightful tale of trust, patience and waiting for your time. 29 MINS (U.S.)

Wombat Wisdom
In less than a minute, this rapid-fire animation tells you everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the next million years. Interconnected, all is one, Wombat. 1 MIN (U.S.)

Wildlife Images, a local non-profit established to provide for the care and treatment of sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, will be at the festival from 11:30-12:30 (in the lobby) with information about the organzation and it's rescue and educational efforts, and ways that youth can get involved. They will have some birds of prey accompanying them!

(Films Subject to Change)

Peril
If you aren't scared, you aren't paying attention. But when the punk pulls the fire alarm on the whole planet, the principal points out fresh perspectives that can help solve difficult problems and create a better future for all. 2 MINS (U.S)

Safari - American Cockroach
This wordless, hallucinatory nature documentary is not precisely natural, nor exactly a documentary. Following the journey of a cockroach through a studio-constructed tropical paradise, its extreme close-ups present a world in which bizarre plants and animals engage in a constant dance of eat and be eaten. 7 MINS (U.S.)

Bottle Tale
Created by teens in Toronto's Youth! Camera! Action! program, A Bottle Tale tells the story of Paul who, after being moved by an environmental book, decides to do something good for the world. His journey is filled with adventure, humor and environmental concerns. 5 MINS (Canada)

Warming
Focusing on the interconnected nature of the ecosystems and societies in which we live, this lyrical and contemplative animated short explores the causes and effects of global warming through an ever-shifting montage of images. 4 MINS (U.S.)

The Story of Stuff
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. 20 MINS (U.S.)

P is for Papaya
It sucks when your heart is broken by a fruit...Told as a romance gone bad, this short documentary reveals some of the sour secrets beneath the skin of a popular tropical fruit. Inspired by the fact that Canada and the United States are the only 2 countries in the world to have approved genetically modified Papaya for human consumption. 8 MINS (Canada)

The Mall on Top of My House
A man wakes up to discover that his home and way of life are being destroyed due to urban growth. An experimental animated short depicting the harsh displacement of communities due to economic "progress". 5 MINS (India)

Tree Officer
A stop-motion animated comedy shot in a documentary style, Tree Officer focuses on the day-to-day running of the town council's Tree office, and in particular the Tree Officer, Gary Dremmel. Passionate about botany and horticulture, Gary is wearied by endless requests from the town's citizens for trees to be cut down. Resigned to his fate, he signs his daily quota of death warrants with an air of droll melancholy, assisted by his two colleagues: Matt, a sardonic temp with a stapling addiction; and Avril, a dedicated worker with an unreliable arm and a dysfunctional relationship with technology. 8 MINS (Scotland)

Nebaigta Pasaka (Unfinished Story)
A visually imaginative short movie inspired to Colony Collapse Disorder, a poorly understood phenomenon involving the massive die-off of a beehive. Are we perhaps condemned to the same fate as the poor little insects? Only time will tell, but this short may give you a hint. 3 MINS (Lithuania)

Hiyab
A Spanish short film by Xavi Sala about Hijab in Europe and the discrimination young Muslim women face in a so-called "free" Europe where everything but religion is tolerated in the name of "freedom of religion". 8 MINS (Spain)

On Nature's Terms
With dramatic footage and compelling stories, On Nature's Terms shows how ordinary citizens in both rural and urban America are learning to coexist with predators and are protecting and restoring these magnificent species and their habitats. With fact, insight, and passion, this film shows why we must treasure predators and how we can share our planet with these magnificent creatures. 25 MINS (U.S.)

The Shift (trailer)
A massive worldwide phenomenon is in progress. Millions of individuals, as well as thousands of organizations and corporations around the world, are awakening to a responsibility to contribute positively to our collective future. This film sheds light on the beauty and magnificence of the human spirit and includes global leaders, thinkers, scientists and futurists, as well as ordinary individuals doing extraordinary things. Highlighted is an amazing group of youth activists that include Mandela's grandson, Cezda Dlamini, Derrick Ashong and star of "New World" (Pochahantas role), Qorianka Kilcher. 7 MINS (U.S.)

Wombat Wisdom
In less than a minute, this rapid-fire animation tells you everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the next million years. Interconnected, all is one, Wombat. 1 MIN (U.S.)