Screening Schedule:
HDFEST New York- October 10th
6:30-7:45 HD Documentary Films
Lemurs of Madagascar: Surviving on an Island of Change
Directed and Produced by Vivian Trakinski
On the world's fourth largest island, and virtually nowhere else, lives an entire "infraorder" of primates: the three dozen or so lemur species. But Madagascar has radically transformed since another primate-humans- arrived two thousand years ago. Rampant deforestation, habitat fragmation, and other anthropogenic factors are impacting lemurs much faster than evolution can mitigate the effects. Follow American and Malagasy scientists through the country's remaining forests to learn how these unusual creatures are coping with change.
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Melting Ice: Rising Seas
Directed and Produced by Vivian Trakinski
The rising temperatures of global climate change are melting the world’s ice. Most notable are the shrinking ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica, which have shown dramatic loss in recent years. Travel to the glaciers of Greenland and to fossilized coral reefs of the Florida Keys, where earth scientists are studying geologic records of past warming to predict future ice loss and associated sea level rise.
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Mapping the Universe
Directed and Produced by Tania van Bergen
Taking a census of all the luminous objects in one-quarter of the visible cosmos is a hefty accounting job. It takes a specially-built telescope on task every clear night for eight years, wielding one of the biggest digital cameras on the planet. Over a hundred million stars, galaxies, and quasars have been tallied so far. Meet the astronomical observers and theorists set on divining the three-dimensional structure and origins of the Universe from these unprecedented scores of data.
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GlobeRiders Silk Road Adventure
Directed and Produced by Sterling Noren
The GlobeRiders Silk Road Adventure follows a group of motorcyclists who ride from Istanbul, Turkey to Xian, China along the ancient Silk Road. The journey was 53 days and took them 8000 miles through 8 different countries. Along the way they struggled against dangerous riding conditions, mechanical breakdowns, accidents and political troubles and experienced a part of the world seldom seen by Western travelers.
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