Ms. Zuniga believes that environmental justice today continues the fight for civil rights barriers broken in the 1960’s with Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King leading the way. Today's civil rights is about the environment, about the toxins dumped in every way on the poor neighborhoods of color. Societies have developed ways of living that are harmful to the environment. One of the causes is the lack of consciousness that certain established activities have environmental consequences, and that the degradation of the environment affects not only resources but also human life.

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.

Dot.com

Director: Luis Galvao Teles

Year:  2007

Country: Brazil/Spain/Ireland/Portugal/United Kingdom.

Length:  102 min

Earth days

Director: Robert Stone

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length:100 min 

Director Robert Stone concocts an inspiring and hopeful work in Earth Days, a feature documentary that recounts the history of the modern environmental movement from its beginnings nearly four decades ago. Environmental activism really began with the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, and precipitated an unexpected and galvanizing effect on the national psyche. Told through the eyes of nine very divergent witnesses, including a secretary of the interior, Stewart Udall, who actually cared about the environment; a biologist, Paul Ehrlich; a congressman, Pete McCloskey; and an astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, Earth Days is a visually stunning, globe-spanning chronicle of watershed events and consciousness-changing realizations that prompted a new awareness: the post–World War II American dream of a future world created by scientific progress, new technology, and economic expansion was rapidly changing into a nightmare. To the twenty million Americans who demanded change and political action to protect the environment on that first Earth Day, the urgency and scale of the current crisis would have seemed extreme and alarmist. Earth Days is a truly cogent and powerful depiction of the awakening of the world to environmental reality by a dedicated and skilled filmmaker; ignoring its message could imperil us all!

Earth Report State of Planet 2009

National Geographic Channel

Year: 2009

Country: EEUU

Length: 52’

Earth Report investigates the impact that development has had on the environment and explores what is being done to protect our planet. The Northwest Passage opened for the first time in recorded history, much of the United States honeybee population mysteriously died and China bypassed the United States in total carbon emissions. Despite all of Earths ailments, there are glimmers of hope countries, businesses and individuals making great advances in eco-friendly policies and practices. In Earth Report, National Geographic takes the pulse of our planet and explores what kind of shape Planet Earth is in.

Egon & Dönci

Director: Adam Magyar

Year:  2007

Country:  Hungary

Length:  75 min

Egon and Dönci are two lonely inhabitants on a distant solar-systems  tiny planet. Egon is an amateur "space-exploratory" trying to seem  very moderate, but his deeds are dogged by constant ill fortune cased  mostly by his fumbler cat, Donci. The film puts on the two figures  comic conflicts, endeavors, and vicissitudes, as they get into all  kinds of staggering adventures while exploring the sensible existence  far away from earth. They live through every situation in a peculiar  way.Egon and Dönci never talk. They communicate with each other and with  the viewer in the most simple way with childlike mimicry, one  syllable sounds, gestures therefore they are not bantered to any  determinated language. In this way they are understood by the  youngest age-group as well as the elder on any part of the Earth.  Last but not least the film endeavors to familiarize the viewer with  the planets of our solar-system, the main curiosities of outer space,  its characteristics and regularities with the intention to educate.

Fighting Goliat

Director: Matt Hames

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length:  35 min

Narrated by Robert Redford and co-produced by The Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve and Alpheus Media, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air. The film introduces the unlikely partners—mayors, ranchers, CEOs, community groups, legislators, lawyers, and citizens—that came together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants that were slated to be built in Eastern and Central Texas and that were being fast-tracked by the Governor.The film documents how pressure from these various groups changed public opinion throughout the state of Texas and influenced a proposal made by private investors looking to purchase TXU—the company proposing 11 of the 19 conventional coal-fired power plants slated for construction in Texas—and convinced the buyers to reduce the amount of new plants they would build from 11 to 3. The change in approach and significant reduction of potential pollutants is clearly a victory for the people of Texas, and a national example for others to follow since as of Feburary 2008 114 conventional coal-fired power plants are currently being proposed across the U.S., and close to 1,000 are in development worldwide. In addition to this being an important local story, it’s a powerful national and global story with the potential to educate and inspire audiences worldwide.

Gigantes de Valdés

Director: Alex Tossenberger

Year: 2008 

Country:  Argentina

Length:  104 min

Thomas works for an international company which devotes no time to caring for the natural resources of this country or any other. He is sent to Peninsula Valdés, a region in Patagonia,  under false pretences in order to investigate and get the town people’s agreement to settle down a giant tourist venture disregarding the regional economies. After having been in contact with the town people’s generosity and getting to know a marvelous world which was completely new to him, he is naively unmasked and his identity is revealed by a certain guy (Captain Morelo) who seems to be lord and owner of the place.Having his true identity revealed but bearing no bad intentions Tomás is desperate about his mission failure.   Tomás eventually meets Jose –a wise man who knows the place very well but who is completely illiterate in the art of writing- and as his last resource Tomás establishes a very useful interchange of knowledge that is vital to each other. Tomás teaches Jose how to read and write and Jose shares with him his years of experience in contact with the land, the scenery and the fauna of the place.

Green Porno

Director:  Isabella Rossellini

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length:  20 min

A hilarious series of shorts written, acted and directed by Isabella Rossellini in which she transforms into various insects and comically portrays their bizarre sex lives. Isabella transforms herself into an earthworm, a bee, a firefly, a snail, a spider, a fly, and a praying mantis.

Home

Director: Yann Arthus Bertrand

Year:  2009

Country: France

Length:  88 min

A unique trip and bold mission, Home releases on World Environment Day, June 5th, 2009, free to the public on screens across the planet. With the goal to share a new perspective on the need for sustainability, Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on an original journey around the planet. Contemplating its beauty through the eyes of the filmmaker, we learn about the treasures Earth offers and marks we leave brehin. The film is a travel notebook, showing landscapes captured from above. Looking down from the sky, we follow water currents, roads and biodiverse communities across boarders and cultures to embrace a complex situation in one, emotion-filled glance. Home invites us to stop for a moment, take a hard look, and consider our impact. Conceived through a meeting of minds of three men, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Luc Besson and François-Henri Pinault, Home’s objective is to inspire global action by raising awareness of our shared responsibility for the planet and all of its inhabitants

I am because we are

Director: Nathan Rissman  

Year:  2008

Country:  United Kingdom

Length:  90 min

Malawi, a country of 12 million people, has an unprecedented one million-plus children who have been orphaned by AIDS, and malnutrition and inadequate medical treatment still run rampant. In I AM BECAUSE WE ARE, narrator Madonna leads us through heart-wrenching stories of this trouble country that remind us how interconnected we are. The film offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.

Know your mushrooms

Director: Ron Mann

Year:  2009

Country:  Canadá

Length:  73 min

From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, GRASS, GO FURTHER and a host of paradigm-shifting fi lms reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS.  Mushrooms – we put them on our pizza and steaks and in our soups and salads: we marvel at their  variety and are sometimes repelled by their grotesque beauty when encountering them in the bush.  And yeah, some have even sampled their more exotic possibilities and asked the question: “Do mushrooms come from a far away planet?”  Still others have asked, “Can mushrooms save the planet?”  The world of fungi and their integral relationship with the health of the planet have only recently been  appreciated. The oldest and largest living organisms recorded on Earth are both fungi. And their  use by a new, maverick breed of scientists and thinkers has proven vital in the cleansing of sites  despoiled by toxins and as a “clean” pesticide among many other environmentally-friendly applications.

O mundo em duas voltas

Director: David Schürmann

Year:  2007

Country:  Brazil

Length:  90 min

Ten years in the making, The World in Two Round Trips is an award winning documentary about the adventures of the legendary Schürmann family on a round the world expedition, as they sail in the wake of pioneering Portuguese Admiral Fernão de Magalhães who’s expedition was the first to sail around the world 500 years ago.  The same route, the same seas, the same continents, islands and archipelagos, separated in time by five centuries. A true sea story filled with storms, battles, mutinies, pirate attacks and adventures lived by seamen, in the past and present.The World Two Round Trips is a true dream come true. For two and half years the production filmed in over 19 countries the film captures the essence of what the world looks like from a family’s point of view. The viewer experiences the real life and drama of a world expedition on a sailboat.

The garden

Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Year:  2008

Country: USA

Length: 80 min

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public?And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.”If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?

The unforeseen

Director: Laura Dunn

Year:  2009

Country:  USA

Length: 88 min 

Featuring interviews with Robert Redford, Willie Nelson, the iconic Texas Governor Ann Richards, environmentalist Wendell Berry and many others, THE UNFORESEEN is a powerful meditation on the American dream – on the destruction of the natural world as it falls victim to the cannibalizing forces of unchecked development. It is an intricate tale of personal hopes, victories and failures; and of debates over land, water and the public good An ambitious west Texas farm boy with grandiose plans tires of living at the mercy of nature and sets out to find a life with more control. He heads to Austin where he becomes a real estate developer and skillfully capitalizes on the growth of this 1970s boomtown. At the peak of his powers, he transforms 4,000 acres of pristine Hill Country into one of the state’s largest and fastest selling subdivisions. When the development threatens a local treasure, a fragile limestone aquifer and a naturally spring-fed swimming hole, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see in miniature a struggle that today plays out in communities across the country.

Trouble the Water

Director: Tia Lessin - Carl Deal

Year:  2008

País:  USA

Length: 90 min

TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.

The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall-twenty-four year old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts is turning her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. "It's going to be a day to remember," Kim declares. With no means to leave the city and equipped with just a few supplies and her hi 8 camera, she and her husband Scott tape their harrowing ordeal as the storm rages, the nearby levee breaches, and floodwaters fill their home and their community.

Environmental Justice

Director: Steven Lathan

Daphne Zuniga

Year:  2009

Country:  EUA

Length:  7 min

Nominada al Oscar 2009

Nominada al Oscar 2009