2008 American Conservation Film Festival Schedule*

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OPENING NIGHT

Thursday November 6, 2008

National Conservation Training Center – Byrd Auditorium

Free of Charge

5:00pm   Student Film(s) TBA

5:45pm   Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge

6:00pm   Burning the Future: Coal in America

7:30pm   Conservation in Context panel discussion

8:00pm   Everything’s Cool

9:30pm   Conservation in Context panel discussion

Friday November 7, 2008  Movies at Two Locations

Shepherd University – Erma Ora Byrd Auditorium

(located in Shepherd’s new nursing building on High St.)

Tickets:  $7 for evening of films, $5 for one film, $3 for students

6:00pm   The American Chestnut

6:30pm   Plight of the Puffin

7:00pm   Red Gold

8:00pm   King Corn

9:30pm   Conservation in Context panel discussion

Shepherd University -  Byrd Science Center Auditorium

(located behind Snyder Hall on High St.)

Free of Charge

5:00pm   Student Film Screenings

8:00pm   American Outrage

Saturday November 8, 2008   Movies at Three Locations

National Conservation Training Center – Studio Theater

Free of Charge

12:00pm Where do Children Play?

1:15pm   Conservation in Context – panel discussion

1:45pm   A Place to Land: Protecting our Parrots

3:00pm   Waste=Food

4:00pm   Pollinators in Peril

5:00pm   Conservation in Context – panel discussion

National Conservation Training Center – Byrd Auditorium

Free of Charge

12:00pm Zoo Vets

1:00pm   Zoo veterinarian talk, plus live reptile and bird show 

1:15pm   Flow: For the Love of Water

3:00pm   Color Talk and other selected shorts

3:15pm   Conservation in Context –

conversation with George Butler, director of The Lord God Bird

4:15pm   Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

4:30pm   In the Valley of the Wolves

Shepherd University – Reynolds Hall

Tickets:  $7 for evening of films, $5 for one film, $3 for students

7:00pm   Seed Hunter

8:00pm   Student Film Competition Winner

8:30pm   Lord God Bird

Stone Soup Bistro – 112 W. German St., Shepherdstown

10:00pm  Meet the Filmmaker Reception – cash bar

Sunday November 9, 2008

National Conservation Training Center – Byrd Auditorium

Free of Charge

12:00pm The Lord God Bird

2:15pm   King Corn

4:00pm   Everything’s Cool

*subject to change, visit conservationfilm.org for up to date schedule information.