Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Fest in Big Piney

Saturday February 25, 2012 • Big Piney Library
Join PFAC for the Sublette County premiere of winners and finalists from the 2011 JH Wildlife Film Fest.
All Films are free admission and you can watch them all or pick and choose (show times listed below).



MY PANTANAL view clip
“My Pantanal” is a film about a boy named Aerenilso, who lives on a fazenda (ranch) in the Pantanal, the world’s largest and wildest wetland, in Brazil. Aerenilso shows us what it is like to be a Pantaneiro (cowboy), riding his horse, doing his chores and exploring this incredible landscape.


SHOWING: 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM (10 minutes, Finalist Best Children’s Film)

LIFE: CHALLENGES OF LIFE view clip
Introducing the extraordinary things animals and plants must do in order to survive and reproduce. Witness amazing sights, captured at 1,000 frames per second: capuchin monkeys smashing open palm nuts with stone ‘hammers’; hippos launching from the water into the air and chameleons stealing prey.


SHOWING: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM (60 minutes, Best Cinematography)

SERENGETI view clip
The Serengeti: an endless sea of grass, thorny bush land, and life-giving rivers. In this untamed wilderness, the epic drama of millions of animals unfolds. Big cats ambush the herds on the open plains, but have to fight for the survival of their helpless young themselves.


SHOWING: 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM (98 minutes, Best Sound)

RADIOACTIVE WOLVES view clip
25 years after the biggest nuclear accident in history, wolves reign the radio-actively contaminated no-man’s-land, the so-called exclusion zone of Chernobyl, which stretches from Ukraine into Belarus and Russia. Uninhibited by the presence of humans, a profusion of wild species has since taken over.

SHOWING: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM (53 minutes, Best Wildlife Habitat Program)

BROKEN TAIL view clip
Broken Tail was the most flamboyant tiger cub Colin Stafford-Johnson had ever seen during many years spent filming India’s wild tigers. And then the cub went on the run, leaving his sanctuary, surviving for almost a year where many said it was impossible in the unprotected badlands of rural Rajasthan.


SHOWING: 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM (58 minutes, Grand Teton Award - Best Conservation Film)