With so many filmmakers, organizations and everyday bloggers creating video, Netroots Nation is delighted to offer a screening showcase that will feature short segments of the diverse work created by, distributed through and appealing to the Netroots. This showcase will present 5-10 film projects, giving each filmmaker up to 15 minutes minutes to show a clip, discuss the project, ask for feedback / help / connections. Kick off the Screening Series by meeting and engaging fellow filmmakers, and seeing a wide array of what's being worked on by whom, so you can continue the conversations throughout the conference.

Dirt! The Movie brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

A Sea Change asks viewers to imagine a world without fish. The film rings an alarm bell, revealing the startling impact of ocean acidification not only on aquatic wildlife, but the intertwined global ecosystem as we know it.

Earth Days looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary Silent Spring to the wildly successful first Earth Day celebrations of the 1970s.

“The Politiical Prosecutions of Karl Rove,” a compelling video by Project Save Justice and John McTiernan, whose film credits include “Die Hard,” “Predator,” and “The Hunt for Red October,” features experts who say that hundreds of defendants across the nation were targeted by federal prosecutors who focused on particular defendants for political reasons. Inlcuded are interviews of victims and their families who suffered at the hands of the Bush Department of Justice, the payoffs recieved by federal operatives, and highlights of those political prisoners still being held in US Federal Prison Camps.

"Free The River Park - The Story of Citizens' Fight to Free the
Schuylkill River Park" This mini documentary explores a neighborhood's ultimately victorious efforts to create and preserve at grade access to the Schuykill River Park despite the adamant objections of the CSX Railroad. The film tells the inspiring story of the Philadelphia community 'winning over' the railroad through interviews with key elected officials and citizen activists. Winner of the "best green film" award at the Delray Beach Film Festival, it has been shown at film festivals across the country. With an array of extras, the Free the River Park DVD is designed to be used as a template for inspiring and instructing other communities on how to use new media technologies and network centric strategies to win. See the trailer at www.freetheriverpark.org