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Top Five Eco-Focused Films from Sundance
Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com — ... documentary follows the fight for retribution between five Indigenous Ecuadoran tribes and Chevron for the 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste that pollute the area. In true journalistic style, Berlinger has aimed to make his film without bias, showing both sides of battle and letting you determine a victor. FOR: Those who fill up at the pump without giving a thought to where their fuel is coming from. 5. Dirt! The Movie If you didn’t know better, this one ...

Grab The Organic Popcorn; It's Time For An Eco Movie Night
5 Minutes For Going Green — ... this year? Well that makes… thousands of us. Living up to a big rep as the     quintessential indie film festival, Sundance has started it's own greening process and as such has begun to feature films with a heart for the environment. One of this year's selections was Dirt! The Movie ...

“Dirt”-y movie tells how we’ve sold our soils
The Ethicurean — The last page of every issue of Edible San Francisco contains this anonymous quotation: “Despite its artistic pretensions and its many accomplishments, humankind owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” One could even go so far and say that most life — plants, birds, reptiles, insects, and mammals — also owes its existence to this thin layer of topsoil. Unfortunately, humanity has been taking topsoil for granted, and paying the price in many ways, from regional famines to aquatic dead zones to a global loss of biodiversity. A film ...

Will Smith To Star In Drama Version Of “No Impact Man”?
ECORAZZI.COM — ... films; unlike the hits “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Fahrenheit 9/11,” the green documentaries don’t have recognizable stars such as Al Gore and Michael Moore. (In a classic Hollywood twist, “No Impact Man,” about a New York family struggling to live without refrigeration, electricity and even toilet paper, is being reworked as a possible drama for Will Smith.) Furthermore, the subject matter can be more than a little arcane: “Dirt! The Movie” is just that — a movie about dirt. (Ed note: emphasis mine) ...

Get The Dirt On Dirt In “Dirt! The Movie”
ECORAZZI.COM — ... The producers say, “If you care about your food, water, the air you breathe, your health and happiness… it’s time to see DIRT! the Movie, roll up your sleeves for action and Get Dirty.” Check out their website for ways to get involved with spreading the word about important changes that can be made at the highest levels. Here’s the trailer: ...

Eco-Beat, 8/17
Green Daily — ... A new eco-documentary sets out to highlight the destruction of the top 5 centimeters of the earth's crust. The flick -- appropriately titled "Dirt!" -- actually looks like it might make topsoil vaguely interesting to your average non-dirt-fanatic ( ...

5 eco-flicks worth seeing now
Super Eco News Feed — ... Dirt Dirt tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility, from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. Narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis, it brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact of soil. ...

End of the line for the eco-movie?
The Guardian | Environment — ... What's more effective: a hard-hitting, real-life documentary, or a well-crafted, character-driven melodrama? We may come to look back on 2009 as a vintage year for environmentally themed movies and documentaries. We've already seen the release of The Age of Stupid, Food Inc, The End of the Line, Disney's Earth and Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Home, and we currently await the arrival of No Impact Man, Dirt! The Movie, Earth Days and Big River Man, all of which have been creating quite a buzz over the summer, online and at ...