Friday, February 24: Earth – A New Wild: Home (55 min.) Travel deep into the wild to take a fresh look at humankind’s relationship to the big animals that live alongside us. Host, Dr. M. Sanjayan, investigates our changing relationships with the wilderness with a focus on the powerful stories that prove animals and humans can thrive side by side. Award winner at IWFF for Best Human-Wildlife Interactions Also playing: Red Wolf Revival (24 min), a short film about the last remaining wild population of red wolves.

Live Music featuring Bob Laughton on the banjo

Friday, March 3: Flight of the Butterflies (44 min.) A beautiful Canadian film that weaves together factual information about the monarchs with a dramatic re-enactment that follows Dr. Fred Urquhart on a quest to solve the mystery of where monarchs spend the winter. Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Multiple award winner including Best Science Content at IWFF. Also playing: Medieval Monsters (10 min.) and another surprise short.

Live music - Midas Well (Chris Gibson and Char Jacobs) will provide a bit of rock, blues, country and jazz

Friday, March 10: Islands of Creation (53min.) Discover how new species arise in this spectacular film about the Solomon Islands, one of the most remote and unspoiled archipelagos in the South Pacific. Award winner IWFF. Also playing: Short films by Flora Skivington. Flora is a west coast filmmaker whose films have been shown at film festivals,

art galleries and public venues in the US and Europe. Her films explore the power of places to influence and inspire people. Live music – Acoustic folk/rock vocals and strings featuring Steve Hahm

and Sid Bishop

Friday, March 17: Earth – A New Wild: Forests (55 min.) Exploring the Amazon’s “Intangible Zone,” one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, then the Cork forests of the Mediterranean, and the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada, we learn that saving the world’s forests lies in recognizing their value while they are still standing. (Contains tribal nudity/ viewer discretion recommended) Award winner IWFF. Also Playing: Sun Bear (11 min.) imaginatively discusses the issues of poaching and habitat loss in Borneo from the bear’s perspective. Live Music – Gibson Creek with Tommie Thompson, John Harper, John

Morris, Scott Yandell, and Brian Wood

Friday, March 24: The Forgotten Coast (56 min.) Following in the footsteps of a wandering Florida black bear, three friends leave civilization and become immersed in a vast and unexplored wildlife corridor stretching from the Everglades to the Florida-Alabama border. This lost American wilderness has the potential to transform the way we see the natural world. Also Playing: The Bee Hunter (8 min.) We ride shotgun as a beekeeper captures her biggest swarm yet.

Live Music – Mellow, bluesy rock by Kim Monroe

FRIDAYS FEBRUARY 24 TO MARCH 24

UkiahCivicCenter,300SeminaryAve.

TicketsavailableatMendocinoBookCompanyandatthedoor

SeriesTicket:$45forallfivenightsSingleTickets:$10suggested

donationforadults&$5forchildren(Filmsappropriateforolderchildren)

Live music, snacks, and socializing begin at 6:15

Films start at 7:00 PM

AllproceedsbenefittheRVOEP,aspecialprogramoftheUUSD,providingoutdoorenvironmentaleducationtoover2,000studentseachyear.WEBSITE:www.rvoep.org