One of the other films I considered nominating for the Applied Plant Ecology Film Festival was The Secrete World of Plants which is a documentary by Fernando Rodriguez (2018). The film applies to Applied Plant Ecology because as the name suggests it really goes in depth into many aspects of plant life that are often overlooked. I think the main selling point of the film is their cinematography which is taken over many remote tropical areas. Along with the films nice camera work I found it to be relatively informative although I felt slightly let down by the films content.
I was hoping the documentary would really take a deep dive into the inner workings of plant life, but the film focused more on plant species that could get you high. There are a couple other reasons why I did not select this film for the applied plant ecology film festival. I encountered my first issue regarding this film, while I was conducting my preliminary research on various documentaries. During this phase I was researching plant documentaries/films by reading the reviews, checking the rotten tomato scores and also watching the trailers myself. This film had some mixed reviews regarding how accurate some of the information in the film was. I did not want to select a film that could potentially mislead my fellow classmates by distributing incorrect information regarding the amazing world of plants.
The second reason I did not select this film was because the film focused more on plants in the tropics. This is both good and bad but for the sake of the applied plant ecology film festival I wanted to try and stick to the theme of focusing on coniferous and temperate deciduous forests/plant species since these are the type of species associated with many biomes in Canada. By trying to shine light on species found in Canada I was hoping that any students that ended up watching y film nomination might become inspired about native species that are slightly easier to access rather than species that require hopping on a plane to try and see.
My final reason for not selecting the film was because of the narration in the film. The narrator seemed as if they had zero interest in the script they were reading, the total polar opposite of David Attenborough documentaries that I grew up watching. I was worried students would lose interest in the film, like I had found myself doing a couple times throughout the film. For these reasons I did not want to nominate this film for the BIOL 4095 Applied Plant Ecology Film Festival.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 
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