Films about the environment, surfing and the world’s quietest place will be featured Saturday during a film festival in Puhi. The Best of the Angkor Wat International Film Festival, presented by Mental Health Kokua, runs from 1 to 10 p.m.
Films about the environment, surfing and the world’s quietest place will be featured Saturday during a film festival in Puhi.
The Best of the Angkor Wat International Film Festival, presented by Mental Health Kokua, runs from 1 to 10 p.m. at Kauai Community College’s Performing Arts Center.
“There is a general interconnectedness between them all,” Robert Zelkovsky, chair of the Surfrider Foundation Kauai Chapter, said of the featured films.
The festival begins at 1 p.m. with “Chasing Ice,” an award-winning film about climate change. In the film, environmental photographer James Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers, according to the synopsis.
“His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate,” it reads.
At 3 p.m., “Storm Surfers 3D” will take viewers inside the hunt for the biggest waves in the Great Southern Ocean.
“Storm Surfers 3D is an epic, character-driven adventure documentary following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia,” according to the film’s website.
The 1 and 3 p.m. film showings cost $10 each.
The final festival slot begins at 7 p.m. and features a talk by TED Talks presenter Dr. Gary Greenberg and a showing of “The Quietest Place on Earth,” a film by the award-winning filmmakers of “Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness” and “When The Mountain Calls.”
A photographer and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in biomedical research, Greenberg creates new ways to capture the spectacular landscapes that are hidden from everyday perception inside grains of sand, human cells and flower petals, according to his biography on Ted.com. Using high-definition, three-dimensional light microscopes, Greenberg makes the miracles of nature tangible, exposing their hidden details.
Zelkovsky said the three featured films, together, have to do with finding the quietest place inside each of us.
“It has to do with nature,” he said of festival. “It has to do with, I think, the search for the value of nature, and the truth in nature.”
The cost of the 7 p.m. talk/film slot is $20 per person. All-access passes are available for $25.
For more information visit www.kauai.surfrider.com or call Robert Zelkovsky at 822-4893.
