Reading through the list of potential films, I genuinely wish we had time to document all of them. As an avid environmentalist eager to enter the active world of documentary in my field, I am inclined to prefer the options of “What the Frack is Going On?” and “Saving the Shad?”
These are extensive topics of contention in the Lehigh Valley of which, as far as I know, a complete up to date documentation has not been attempted. Only recently have environmental documentaries been made and become relatively popular; I can list off the top of my head the accurate, entertaining, and groundbreaking ones that I have seen. This is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and much of the public is astonishingly in disbelief.
Our environmental film options are not huge globally-based climate change documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth or Chasing Ice. Instead, they are focused, hugely important to the local community; this is so much better for our project, as we will have both access and resources to document for the rest of the semester. And they do have far-reaching implications as well.