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"Galen Rowell: An American Master"
A Dancing Star Foundation Film
In Association with Mountain Light and
the Galen Rowell Estate
2011
Galen Avery Rowell, with his wife Barbara Cushman Rowell, died in a plane crash in 2002 in Bishop California, which was their home. This one-hour documentary examines the inspiring career of perhaps the 20th century's greatest explorer/photographer, Galen Rowell. There has never been anyone quite like Galen, whose photography not only revealed the soul of mountaineering at its most glorious, exquisite best, but also translated the spirit of adventure into deep conservationism and human rights orientations.
With commentary by his friends Tom Brokaw, HH The Dalai Lama, George Schaller, Frans Lanting, Justin Black and Dean Stevens, among others, The book, Galen Rowell –A Retrospective (Sierra Club Books, 2006), featuring more than 175 Galen Rowell images, is one of the great photographic books. Rowell's unique art elevates the explorer/photographer into one of the most critical and pro-active voices of relevant engagement of the world that we are ever likely to see. The sheer beauty and scope of his work is inspirational.
In homage to this Great Master whose life was tragically cut short just a few years after he became the "oldest" man to climb the sheer granite face of El Capitan in one day (at the age of 57,) "Galen Rowell: An American Master" will present the lyricism, spirituality and breathless wonder that was Galen, one of the premiere conservationists, explorers and human rights activists of his or any generation.
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A History of U.S. Environmentalism"
This major new series examines American environmental issues beginning in the 15th century and continuing through today. Key figures in natural history, research and exploration, politics and science; populist leaders of the conservation movement; advances, conflicts, and the ongoing dialogue that engages the public in what are our responsibilities as ecological citizens, will be cast in a thrilling context of dynamic balance, promise and peril.
Key historical figures among Native Americans, and early observers and explorers like Father Louis Hennepin and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur inspired some of the earliest initiatives for the creation of wildlife refuges and national parks. "America The Beautiful" will examine in lyrical style what forces most shaped the conservation movements in America, which in turn gave impetus to similar endeavors throughout the world.
The work of George Catlin, Thomas Jefferson, the great ornithologists and Transcendentalists of the 19th century, Hudson River School painters, Luminists and those on the frontlines of the conservation battles in the 20th and 21st century all reveal a unity of purpose and hope that is at the core of the series. Heroes like Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, and many others, are viewed as never before.
"America The Beautiful" makes it abundantly clear that the American people have much to be grateful for, while acknowledging much work yet to be done if energy and consumer sustainability and the conservation of our precious environment is to be safeguarded into the future.
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