BigPicture Media

Focusing on Stories that Move Us

A tip of the green hat to Robert Redford and the Redford Center.

Much of what we, activists in environmental, political reform, encounter in changing the world can be difficult, almost impossible,

and very often we must have resilience and persistence in the face of forces arrayed against visionary work needed to make a difference.

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Via Climate Reality Project / Must See Climate Change Movies

• INTERSTELLAR

• BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

• CHASING CORAL

• SNOWPIERCER

• AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH / AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/A_Day_with_Al_Gore

The original Inconvenient Truth's impact continues to be felt more than a decade after it won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary and took its place among the highest-grossing documentaries ever.

Last year’s follow-up, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, took that story further, showcasing both the amazing progress that’s been made as well as how much further we still have to go to solve the climate crisis.

Chasing Coral / Preview

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Diversity in Hollywood: The Time Is Now

Academy President on Diversity Push: "We Will Keep the Pedal to the Metal"

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences "trumpeted" the diversity of invitiations to join the voting Academy in 2016.

"Back in 2012, 30 percent of that year’s invitees were women and 10 percent were non-white. This year, 46 percent were women and 41 percent were people of color."

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/24/arts/hollywood-diversity-inclusion.html

• http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467621632/researchers-examine-hollywoods-lack-of-diversity

• http://www.eonline.com/news/743110/7-oscar-winning-black-actors-get-honest-about-inequality-and-race-in-hollywood

• http://graphics.latimes.com/oscars-2016-voters/

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2017

Virtual Reality in Space

New Perspective of the Home Planet

Space VR

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Jamie & Robert Redford

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Cliff Curtis: Leader To Be of the Reef People Clan (Avatar)

http://www.bestmovie.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Cliff-Curtis-Avatar.jpg

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/bill-nye-science-guy-review-986806

No more Mr. Nice Science Guy?

With his beloved PBS series having officially wrapped back in 1998 (although still playing in perpetuity on TV and classrooms everywhere), Bill Nye finds himself at a career crossroads.

While his trademark bow tie is still very much intact, his struggle to be taken seriously as a passionate advocate for the environment, facing off against dismissive climate change deniers and the anti-science movement, is intimately chronicled in the documentary Bill Nye: Science Guy, which had its world premiere at South by Southwest.

http://www.geek.com/tech/bill-nye-the-science-guy-hopeful-for-the-future-1687963/

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/billnye-625x352.jpg

Facts Matter today, yesterday & tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science

https://satellites.marchforscience.com/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg

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February 2017 / Miyazaki Is Making a New Film!

Remembering Princess Mononoke

Mononoke, a Teachable Moment

Nature, Environment & Industry: a Film for the Ages

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A Beautiful Planet

May - 2016 / IMAX

http://abeautifulplanet.imax.com/

Video/Intro - https://youtu.be/edwZNH-ZKn4

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Leonardo takes an Oscar and speaks out...

"Making The Revenant was about man's relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It's the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.

"We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this. For our children's children and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed, I thank you all for this amazing award tonight.

"Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so much."

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To the Memory of Ziggy... We're Stardust

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Film/Media Reviews

In the movie industry the term "look-see" is used to describe a first look...

a glimpse of a project, a creator's idea, an initial concept, story, package, a pitch of a screenplay...

Our media reviews are quick look-sees, online intros, scoops and insights of projects worth your time and thought.

So pull up to your screen, log on, stream, download, rent it, buy it, go out to a movie, get virtual, take it to the next level... Act out!

-- www.mchannel.org

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Racing Extinction

Racing Extinction ○ #RacingExtinction @RacingXtinction

“I told the crew, 'We’re not making a movie – we’re starting a movement'. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

and hopefully live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward...”

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New Ways of Seeing

To push the edge... I believe we are at the threshold. Take the time to make breakthroughs.

Technology to Revolutionize Cinema

About Doug Trumbull (video)

Master Class w/ Douglas Trumbull (video)

Starchild 2001 / Story via GreenPolicy

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Premiere of BigPicture Media

A Message from SJS - GreenPolicy Siterunner

Time for New Media, our Spotlight reviews of important, award-worthy and -winning environmentally attuned films/movies/media.

We visit the work of some of our planet's finest #planetcitizen media makers, creators and visionaries. We look at the BIG and the tiny -- and life in between and all around us.

At GreenPolicy, we bring a dramatic 360° perspective.

And a personal POV as "Planet Citizens".

Welcome to a Blue Planet adventure.

~ from Clearwater, Florida

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