Release Date: March 1, 2013 (limited)
Studio: First Run Features
Director: Mark Kitchell
Screenwriter: Mark Kitchell
Starring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende
Genre: Documentary, Drama
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Plot Summary: Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like the biologist E.O. Wilson, "A Fierce Green Fire" chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future – and succeeding against all odds.

The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central story and character:
• David Brower and the Sierra Club’s battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon
• Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal residents’ struggle against 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals
• Paul Watson and Greenpeace’s campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals
• Chico Mendes and Brazilian rubbertappers’ fight to save the Amazon rainforest
• Bill McKibben and the 25-year effort to address the impossible issue – climate change

Surrounding these main stories are strands like environmental justice, going back to the land, and movements of the global south such as Wangari Maathai in Kenya. Vivid archival film brings it all back and insightful interviews with activists shed light on what it all means. The film offers a deeper view of environmentalism as civilizational change, bringing our industrial society into sustainable balance with nature. It’s the battle for a living planet.

"A Fierce Green Fire" tells stories about four successful movements, then takes up the biggest cause of all – climate change – still in suspense. The film gives us reason to believe change can come.

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