Documentaries
The Shoah, more commonly known as the Holocaust was a global event in which millions of Jews and others were murdered. Fast forward 75 years, I talked with Sonia Warshawski about her experiences. And with Missouri State University Professor Kenneth Elkins on how anyone can be a perpetrator of genocide.
When I was a little girl, a seed was planted inside of me. A seed that has told me to hunt and fish but throw the little ones back. To take part in conserving. I had no idea what that meant until I was twelve and took a hunter safety course and heard the term conservation. Conservation means, the preservation and protection of something. In the following years, that term helped the seed sprout inside of me. It provided me with fuel to constantly preach about protecting our planet and protecting our animals. So whenever I heard the Wonders of Wildlife museum was going to open, a museum that I have seen being built my entire life, I knew I had to go see it. I had to talk to the important people, the creators, people like Johnny Morris, the founder of Bass Pro and Wildlife museum itself, to see if this museum was promoting conservation. After talking with Mr. Morris and others I have found this museum does more than promote conservation: it creates conservation, it creates a business, and it even can even create controversy.
Seventh Generation: A Climate Documentary
“When I was 5 one of my first memories was of being at lakes and rivers and seeing thousands of little pebbles. They were really pretty, and fit perfectly like a puzzle with all the other pebbles. And now that I think about it I am kind of like a pebble in a lake of millions. A pebble, that whenever it moves or does anything it is not just it moving it is the entire lake… I affect millions.”
”One of the places my mission brought me to was the John Twitty Energy Center. A coal-burning power plant here in Springfield, Missouri. When I got there I was shocked. There were pools of water filled with coal residue and mounds of carbon everywhere. There were massive structures that one cannot even imagine. After being outside I went to the main building where the coal was being converted. Towards the end of the tour, I went up three flights of stairs to see the main turbines that power most of our city. I grabbed the railing to keep my balance while walking up the stairs.”
“There were so much carbon emissions in the air, it coated everything in black soot. At that moment my opinion was validated. I knew this is real. This thing I have been studying for 4 months is real.”
Recently, Seventh Generation was awarded an honorable mention in the One Earth National Film Festival.
