Several foreign environmental films will be screened for the FIRST time in Malaysia at the Eco Film Festival 2008 on November 1st 2008 at the National Arts Academy. Among them are:

Kilowatt Hours

What would you find if you traced the wires from your light switch to their energy source? Mountain top removal, childhood asthma, or hope? Follow filmmaker Jeff Barrie as he searches America’s cities, towns, and countryside for solutions to the great energy problems of our day. Along the way you’ll meet power companies, schools, businesses, and everyday Americans finding ways to meet our energy needs using conservation and green power. Find out how Jeff and his wife Heather cut their energy bills in half and use a portion of the savings to buy green power. Best of all, Kilowatt Ours will teach you how to dramatically reduce your own energy bill and improve the environment at the same time! Catch the YouTube trailer here.

Who Killed The Electric Car?

WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. Who Killed the Electric Car? is Chris's first feature documentary as director. Previously he was an executive producer on Faster (2003), about MotoGP, the world's fastest motorcycle race (with narration by Ewan McGregor), and Mark Neale's William Gibson: No Maps for These Territories (featuring Bono). No Maps was named "Best Documentary" by the Los Angeles New Times in 2001. Chris has directed segments for the MTV/Initial television series BUZZ as well as the personal documentary Return to the Philippines. He assisted writer/producer Michael Tolkin on the feature films starting with Robert Altman’s The Player (1992), and The New Age (1994) and The Rapture(1991). He has also produced short subjects including Mailman, which premiered at the 1995 Sundance Festival. His improvisation experience included two seasons with the Los Angeles performance group "Theatersports". Catch this SONY Pictures trailer here.

A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash

OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. Catch the trailer here.