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& Vancity Theatre

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In The Raw - 54 minutes

Vegan athlete Dr. Heidrich is a six-time Ironman Triathlon finisher, holder of more than 900 gold medals from every distance from 100 meter dashes to 5K road races to ultra marathons and triathlons. She has completed more than 60 marathons all over the world, including Boston, New York, Moscow, and has held 3 world fitness records in her age group

In her mid-forties, Ruth Heidrich was diagnosed with breast cancer. After undergoing a double mastectomy, she challenged herself to the punishing Ironman Triathlon, a test of endurance involving a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile marathon run. Twenty years later, Heidrich is still running, cancer-free, and positive about life.

readmore  http://www.ruthheidrich.com/

http://www.ruthheidrich.com/Box9.html


Up for Animals - 29 minutes

PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk is a persuasive speaker who has been invited to address conventions all over the world. inspiring compassionate people everywhere to speak up for what they believe in and become more active every day in simple ways.

   www.petacatalog.org/


Lizzie - 15 minutes

LIZZIE is the story of an amazing animal, a human-loving rat who lives the life of a dog. Rescued from an animal hoarding situation, Lizzie came within hours of dying. Now living in a wonderful home with her rabbit friend and lots of human attention, LIZZIE is a tale of survival and friendship and proves that bundles of joy can come in small packages.

readmore www.the-rag.com / Email


Where Whales and Humans Meet - 27 minutes

Featuring "Wilma" the first solitary, sociable Beluga whale and the work of the Whale Stewardship Project. The film received three awards from the 2000 International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula Montana and is used in educational presentations around the world.


Cormorants in the Great Lakes: Dispelling the Myths - 25 minutes

Cormorant Defenders International has just released a new 25 minute DVD that addresses the many myths about cormorants and corrects the misinformation being spread by extremist angling and hunting groups. Featuring a number of interviews, the DVD discusses the history and biology of cormorants, their role in Great Lakes ecosystems and what private citizens can do to help cormorants.

To order your free copy, please email Zoocheck Canada today.

  www.zoocheck.com

 



Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History - 60 minutes

At one time in the not-too-distant past, humans were in the cross-hairs of science. Indigents, orphans, criminals, the mentally ill, ethnic minorities, soldiers, and others have been the subject of scientific experiments. They too were “like us,” but deemed not enough “like us” to receive ethical and legal protection. The history of chimps in our society is a history unlike any other. While we are mesmerized by their likeness to our species and we have continually found uses for chimps, we have rarely considered what they wanted or needed, and have been often misled by this likeness to apply the results of experiments on them to ourselves, with dire consequences.

readmore  www.faunafoundation.org

http://curedisease.net/news/070401.shtml

www.adoptachimp.org

www.releasechimps.org


Greenpeace: "Making a Stand" - 48 Minutes

Explores what inspires people to risk their lives for their beliefs - to sail a ship into a nuclear test zone, to get between a pod of whales and an explosive harpoon, or to block bulldozers mowing down a forest. This compelling documentary looks at the 35 year evolution of Greenpeace from the early days of the environmental movement in the 1970s, to the front lines of a potentially dangerous campaign in Argentina. Introduced by Greenpeace founder and editor of Shared-Vision Magazine, Rex Weyler.

readmore  www.filmwest.com/ 


Frankensteer - 45 minutes

The Passionate Eye presents Frankensteer, a disturbing documentary that reveals how the ordinary cow has been turned into an antibiotic-dependent, hormone-laced potential carrier of toxic bacteria, all in the name of cheaper food. Frankensteer exposes the harsh and sometimes frightening realities of how our beef gets to our table.

Email: info@paradigmpictures.com

readmore    www.bullfrogfilms.com/

www.beyondfactoryfarming.org/


Dr. Steven Best: Direct Action and the Politics of Nature - 38 minutes

"There is a new civil war brewing in America, a war over the politics of nature."

Dr. Steven Best is an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published numerous books and dozens of articles and reviews in the areas of philosophy, cultural criticism, mass media, social theory, postmodern theory, and animal rights. He is a journalist for Animal Rights Online, and a featured writer for Impact Press. He is also a founding member of the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs, President of Stop Animal Neglect and Exploitation (SANE), Vice President of the Vegetarian Society of El Paso, faculty advisor for Cat University Rescue Effort (CURE), and has his own radio show, Animal Concerns of Texas (ACT).

readmore www.RattletheCage.org/


Eat Less Meat - It's Costing the Earth - 17 minutes


The Eat Less Meat campaign touches on many key issues at the heart of today's sustainability debate.  Produced by Compassion in World Farming, UK

 

 

  www.ciwf.org.uk/eatlessmeat/


The Dolphin Defender - 60 minutes
 

You will be swept away by wildlife filmmaker and ocean conservationalist Hardy Jones' compelling and inspiring odyssey into the dolphin universe. What started as a quest to communicate with these beautiful, friendly, and intelligent creatures became a twenty-five-year crusade to protect dolphins against man's greed.

readmore   www.shoppbs.org/


The Food and I - 15 minutes

The short film is a lighthearted discovery of the relationship our hero has with food, told through a series of vignettes as confessions to her psychiatrist.

 



Non-Violence includes Animals - 27 minutes

by PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk, introduction by Dennis Kucinich

PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's address to the International Nonviolence Conference in Bethlehem asks us to open our minds to the idea that the way we treat animals is a reflection of who we are as individuals and as a society. Are we able to grasp the most basic problems facing us as we attempt to resolve conflict? Facing our lack of empathy toward others who are not like us is an interesting exercise that requires us to confront our most ingrained prejudices—even as we challenge others to confront theirs.

CD Run time: 40 minutes
DVD Run time: 27 minutes

readmore  http://www.peta.org