Green Planet Films

The Oyster Farmers centers on coastal life in New Jersey, specifically the Barnegat Bay. The once prolific Eastern Oyster, an economic and cultural keystone, historically decimated, is poised to recapture its legacy. Oyster farmers in the Barnegat Bay lead a Baymens renaissance, cultivating a resurgence of the oyster, to restore its heritage. This film aims to raise awareness of the lost oyster culture and to preserve the Baymens heritage.

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.

Part of the Earth's Furies series: The U.S. is affected by 1,200 tornadoes every year and this phenomenon is growing all over the world. With wind speeds inside their vortex reaching up to 500 km per hour and traveling at the speed of a high-speed train, tornadoes are capable of destroying everything in their path. But how do they start? How can we predict them and minimize their destruction? Is global warming responsible for their increasing frequency?

This documentary introduces us to Douglas Lui Fo'oa, a husband and father from the Solomon Islands, one of the most remote places on Earth. He is our guide and as he shares his wisdom with us, we travel around some of the Islands' amazing locations, slowly understanding the almost idyllic qualities of this archipelago and its people. The result is a portrait of someone who seems to effortlessly understand the meaning of life.

Part of the Earth's Furies series: With new scientific knowledge, we know how electrical charges inside clouds are created, and new technology can monitor lightning moving through the sky. However, it can hit anything, anywhere, at any time and it cannot be stopped. Nowhere is unaffected by this devastating and frightening natural.

Part of the Earth's Furies series: With teams of experts tracking them all over the world, earthquakes are one of the most heavily-monitored natural phenomenons. Despite this, in places such as Haiti, Nepal and Italy, they continue to be devastating and deadly. But what causes this destructive force of nature and can we minimize destruction? This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth's anger.

Part of the Earth's Furies series: Anywhere on the planet where there is snow, no mountain is spared. Depending on the type of snow, the weather and the slope, an avalanche can reach incredible speeds: more than 300km per hour. A small avalanche can exert the same amount of pressure as a cyclone. Researchers and security experts have set up techniques to detect dangerous areas and limit their impact.

Part of the Earth's Furies series: Iceland, Indonesia, South America, the Reunion Island The threat of volcanic eruptions never ceases to hound those who have chosen to live at the feet of volcanos on continents the world over. This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth's anger.

Part of the Earth's Furies series: Devastating forest fires rage across California, and enormous fires reach the doors of major European cities But these gargantuan fires are often impossible to stop without rainfall. With every new dry season, these fires devour the world's forests and increasingly threaten human lives and homes. This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth's anger.

Brilliant Darkness: Hotaru in the Night eplores the importance of darkness, and the erosion of it, told through the study, preservation and celebration of firefly habitats in Japan and the United States. Fireflies are reportedly disappearing, as artificial night lights disrupt their 'languages of light'. Brilliant Darkness: Hotaru in the Night and Light of the Genji feature artists and scientists on different continents working to understand firefly flash patterns and how to live among...

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.

The Gauchos del Mar brothers (producers of the surfing adventure films Gauchos Del Mar and Tierra de Patagones) perform an unprecedented 400 KM expedition by foot with 35kgs+ on their backs during 53 days on the easternmost tip of Tierra del Fuego Province, a pristine area where no one lives. The brothers have the goal of surfing a world-class wave never ridden before at the Cape San Diego Lighthouse, the most easterly point. To get there they overcome heavy terrains, scarcity of food and...