RESTORING BALANCE: Removing the Black Rat from Anacapa Island cranberries Best Film Nature Documentary: Black

Best Film Nature Documentary: Black Oak Film Festival

including new interviews with several of the Ladakhis who were in the original film

images and a soulful score by legendary musicians this film gem suggests the major themes of Thoreau’s work: the reflection of the universal in the tiniest leaf or pebble

Produced | Written | Directed: ANDREW NISKER

speaks French

RESTORING BALANCE: Removing the Black Rat from Anacapa Island cranberries Best Film Nature Documentary: BlackA half hour film documenting efforts by land managers and scientists to save endangered seabirds by removing the non native rat from Anacapa Island, off the coast of Southern California. Non native rats have long endangered the seabirds that nest on Anacapa Island, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. Faced with evidence of widespread predation on seabird eggs and chicks, including the endangered Xantus Murrelet, land