Green Planet Films

Join Joel on this life-like quest as he tours the Garner Holt Productions facility where movie animatronics are made. Get a sneak-peak into all the hard-work that goes into making creatures come to life.

After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable as well as sustainable food and agriculture system, filmmaker Simon Cunich heads to Venezuela to investigate what we might learn about food sovereignty from the country's various initiatives to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. So they may become urban gardeners, the nation is providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed to organically grow food.

How does one capture the essence of one of the most legendary lives of our time? A boundless and heroic life filled with extraordinary loss, resilience, and achievement and a man whose philosophy of kindness continues to inspire millions of people around the world, regardless of faith or political persuasion? In this profound and inspiring portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama, the answer is: In his own words. Through intimate conversations and previously unreleased archival footage and images, the...

Pioneers of the San Francisco Bay Area's recycling movement share their insightful and hilarious thoughts and stories on garbage collection, treasure hunting, Jack Benny, and the products we buy. For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Even the garbage companies have a long history of recycling practices. After the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, community, non-profit recycling centers appeared in schools, garages, and neighborhood centers-with...

Tulare Lake in California's Central Valley was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi. By the year 1910, the lake had been completely dried by water diversion and land reclamation, along with the dislocation of the Valley's indigenous people. Today the region maintains the most productive agricultural land in the world and in the same locale, the most impoverished Congressional District. Today a visionary land owner has begun adjusting to climate change by advocating partial restoration...

MOVE ! Dance your life is a beautiful, emotional, poetic and aesthetic film about dance around the world. Without narration or spoken word, the film's primary language is Dance, a universal medium. Take a visual journey to 18 different destinations around the world and experience the beauty and emotion of dance with over 20 dancers wearing stunning and colorful costumes in a variety of indoor and outdoor scenes. MOVE ! shows humanity's vital need for dance.

A unique, non-invasive, mountain lion study uses a giant network of trail cameras scattered throughout the mountains over a decade to piece together the life story of a female mountain lion. This film weaves clips of mountain lions and their complex interactions with each other and the rest of the forest world into a story that contains never-before-captured events and behaviors at every turn.

Did you know that surfboards can be made out of plants? Watch this episode as Joel learns how eco-friendly surfboards are made.

Daniel Everett is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Piraha people and their language. The Grammar of Happiness is a documentary that explores whether one man's journey into the heart of the Amazon can redefine our understanding of human language.

Given our current practices, the planet will soon be unable to satisfy the demand for food. This is already of vital concern, but it is set to become even more pressing. What kind of solutions could help us rise to this immense challenge? Food 3.0 provides a three-part answer to this question. Techno Food: What's cooking in the Silicon Valley? Bio Food: The development of a more sustainable agriculture and the eating habits of tomorrow; Franken Food: A step towards genetically modified food...

It is our light, our warmth, our food. Humans rise with it and fear its disappearance. We are so accustomed to its presence that we forgot it was born and will die someday. But how well do we really know the Sun? 2 45 minutes on one DVD

Joel ventures through this episode to learn how homeowners can keep their yards "green" or environmentally friendly. This is an important one kids, so be sure to watch with your parents!