In the weeks leading up to the festival, volunteers are busy making each screening program will be ready to go come show time. These volunteers assembled venue kits one Saturday morning.
Dedicated volunteers are what make One Earth Film Festival run smoothly. From helping with film selection, finding venues, designing programs, collaborating with action partners to assembling the kits for all the venue site coordinators, they do it all.
Here's part of the team that spent most of their Saturday morning making sure each venue will have all the supplies it needs for screening day.
The entries are all in for the 2017 Young Filmmakers Contest. They came from as far away as California, Florida and New Jersey, the filmmakers taking on the environmental topics of our times: local food, water waste, wildlife protection, and biking to save energy.
Jurors are now reviewing the entries, taking into consideration the creativity, research solution-oriented messages of each. Winners will be announced in early February and will premiere at the Young Filmmakers Contest: Winner Screenings + Awards at 3 p.m., Sat., March 4, at Columbia College Chicago, Music Center, 1014 S. Michigan Ave.
