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American Conservation Film Festival 
The Opera House will be hosting the American Conservation Film Festival over the weekend of November 6-8. This year’s selections are:
“Coal Country” (director by Phyllis Gellar) - The director of The Appalachians brings us an inside look at the modern coal mining technique known as mountain top removal (MTR). Both sides in this conflict claim that history is on their side. Families have lived in the region for generations and most have ancestors who worked in the mines. Everyone shares a deep love for the land, but MTR is tearing them apart.
“Feral Peril” (produced by Gina Twyble) - In this film noir, Australia’s island state Tasmania is one of the world’s last great wildlife havens, but it’s struggling native species are under threat from a feral fox invasion. Or are they?
“Grizzly” (produced by John and Sara Shier) - A year in the life of Yellowstone’s grizzlies, the film follows two grizzly bears, documenting their triumphs and failures, and providing a rare glimpse of life in one of America’s great wildernesses.
“Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators” (filmed by Karen and Ralf Meyer) - Sharing key themes and characters with the book “Where the Wild Things Were” by Shepherdstown author William Stoltzenberg, this film explores the vital role that North America’s top predators play in our ecosystem and the scientists, ranchers and others who bucked convention to recognize their importance.
“Running With Wolves” (filmed by Richard Matthews) - Biologist Gudrun Pflueger returns to the Canadian Rockies two years after being diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. Her quarry is an elusive wolf named “Hope”, an alpha female Gudrun hasn’t seen any sign of since before she was diagnosed with cancer. Gudrun’s search for Hope leads her to a shy pack living deep in a thick forest near Banff National Park. Hunted as vermin by sportsmen and under constant pressure from encroaching humans, this pack of wary predators has learned to fear man to an extreme. Once an Olympic athlete, Gudrun struggles to return to the top fitness needed to track wolves in mountain terrain, and struggles to find Hope among these mainland wolves. “Running with Wolves” documents her struggles against cancer, the fate of Hope and the future of the Banff wolf pack.
Show times are:
Sunday, Nov 8 - “Lords of Nature” at 12:00, “Grizzly” at 1:00, “Feral Peril” at 2:00, “Running With Wolves” at 3:00, and “Coal Country” at 4:00 followed by a discussion with Phyllis Geller, the writer, director, and producer of “Coal Country” at 5:30.
Admission is $10.00 for each evening’s full slate of performances.
