Belo Monte: After the Flood
(2016)
52 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producers: Brent Milikan, Christian Poirier, Todd Southgate Narrator: Peter Coyote Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate, Brent Milikan & Christian Poirier

The film explores the history and consequences of one of the world's most controversial dam projects, built on the Xingu River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

Filmmaker Todd Southgate has traveled to the Amazon a dozen times over the course of seven years to document the conflicts surrounding the Belo Monte Hydroelectric project, and in early March he returned to the region as the dam's construction neared completion.

Sorry for the Inconvenience: The Dirty Little War over Chico's Bar
(2015) 79 min

Director: Todd Southgate Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate & Jeff Hoff

Is a feature length documentary that tells the tragic story of a charming old fisherman whose small rustic beach side bar became ground zero in a community's battle against powerful condominium developers and political interests.

The film also chronicles the history of urban development on the Brazilian island of Florianopolis; and how the island's growing fame ushered in an era of unsustainable development that is jeopardizing much of the tropical island's beauty, as well as generating many conflicts with traditional communities.

DAMOCRACY
(2013)
35 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producer: Doga (Birdlife) Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate, Caroline Muscat, Tolga Temuge

A documentary that debunks the myth of large-scale dams as clean energy and a solution to climate change. It records the priceless cultural and natural heritage the world would lose in the Amazon and Mesopotamia if two planned large-scale dams are built, Belo Monte dam in Brazil, and Ilisu dam in Turkey. DAMOCRACY is a story of resistance by the thousands of people who will be displaced, and a call to world to support their struggle.

A Questao Animal
(2012)
60 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producer: Todd Southgate & Maria Graca Dutra Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate

Is a one hour Brazilian documentary that explores at great length the relationship that we have with dogs and cats, and the endemic problem of strays in the streets of Brazil, as well as the health concerns which develop. The programme also discusses animal cruelty and the fight to educate more people about laws protecting animals on this continental sized nation. Looking for solutions, the video highlights one city, Florianopolis, that has developed an innovative programme to reduce the number of strays, educate the population and reduce zoonotic diseases in a humane and thoughtful way.

Changes in Climate, Changes in Lives
(2006)
60 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producer: Greenpeace Narrator: Todd Southgate (English version) Camera: Todd Southgate and others Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate, Carlos Rittl, Caroline Donatti

For months, Greenpeace teams have traveled all over Brazil to document the impact of climate change on many regions. The result was a film with impressive images of drought, flood and destruction, as well as emotional testimonials from people in the South, Amazon and Northeast who suffered, suffer and could suffer even more from these climate changes. The documentary also brings the opinion of scientists on the causes of global warming and what the government and population can do to stop the impacts of climate change.

Soy, In the Name of Progre$$
(2005) 42 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producer: Greenpeace Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate & Andre Muggiatti

The expansion of soybeans in the Amazon has attracted farmers from other regions of Brazil, who move with the ambition of becoming rich quickly.

But everything has its price ... Local communities are threatened and expelled from their lands. And the forest is destroyed to give way to soy.

For Brazil, it is all in the name of "progress." But for those who lost their lands and saw the destruction that the soybean brought to the region of Santarém, the advance of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon means nothing but devastation and misery.

The Deni: Canoes, Compasses & Courage
(2002)
35 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producer: Greenpeace Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Todd Southgate Writer: Todd Southgate, Nilo DAvila

A documentary that debunks the myth of large-scale dams as clean energy and a solution to climate change. It records the priceless cultural and natural heritage the world would lose in the Amazon and Mesopotamia if two planned large-scale dams are built, Belo Monte dam in Brazil, and Ilisu dam in Turkey. DAMOCRACY is a story of resistance by the thousands of people who will be displaced, and a call to world to support their struggle.

Arctic Meltdown, Rising Seas
(1999)
32 min

Director: Todd Southgate Producer: Greenpeace Camera: Todd Southgate Editor: Bart van Writer: Todd Southgate

According to the world's scientists, sea level rise is 'arguably one of the world's most important potential impacts of global climate change'.

This documentary explores two remote regions of the world, the Marshall Islands and the Arctic. It investigates the problems of climate change from the perspective of these two environmentally threatened cultures

Download the full-length documentary at www.firstscience.tv