In 2001, San Francisco filmmaker Mark Kitchell had just sold his Oscar-nominated 1990 documentary, BERKLEY IN THE SIXTIES to television for the third or fourth time. With some cash on hand, he spent a few years researching the history of the environmental movement.Soon he was running out of money, so he put aside his pet project to put his kids through school. Kitchell returned to the venture in 2008 and worked on it full time for four years, compiling 90 archival material sources into a 114-minute film, A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: THE BATTLE FOR A LIVING PLANTE.