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A Good Neighbor + Earthbound: Nzambi Matee

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A Good Neighbor + Earthbound: Nzambi Matee

In Person, Friday, April 19, 5 p.m. CDT
Kehrein Center, Chicago [West]

In Person, Friday, April 19, 6 p.m. CDT
Unity Temple, Oak Park [W Suburbs]
Triton College, River Grove [W Suburbs]

Maggie Hart and Brittany Zampella/2023/19 min/Waste, Health, Justice

FILM DESCRIPTION: “A Good Neighbor” is a feature-length documentary about a Latina single mother’s fight against racism and climate change as she campaigns for city council in one of the nation’s most polluted zip codes.

Farhoud Meybodi/2023/48 min/Waste, Health, Justice, Built Environment, People & Cultures

FILM DESCRIPTION: Amidst a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown of Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything to pioneer technology that transforms plastic waste into sustainable paving bricks.

The short film “The Speech of Txai Surui” by the students of Escola Parque (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) will precede the feature films. This film won two awards in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest 2023.

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Opening Launch Party

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Opening Launch Party

In Person + Virtual
Wednesday, April 17, 6 p.m. CDT
Radio Flyer, Chicago [West]

Join us! One Earth launches its 13th festival season by sharing reel stories that speak to the real change we can make for our planet when we're united together.

  • Enjoy the beautiful, state-of-the art LEED Platinum Radio Flyer worldwide headquarters (a Certified B Corporation)

  • Chance to watch the Emmy-winning short film "Taking Flight"

  • Enjoy a toast from the amazing filmmakers behind the 2024 One Earth Film Fest film lineup

  • See the Young Filmmakers Contest post-graduate winning film “My Brand New Car” as part of a short program beginning promptly at 7 p.m.

  • Enter the raffle to win a Radio Flyer Electric Bicycle and other terrific, sustainable prizes

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Razing Liberty Square

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Razing Liberty Square

Katja Esson/2023/85 min/Climate, Justice, Built Environment, Historical Perspectives

In Person, Saturday, April 20, 6 p.m. CDT
Bethel New Life, Chicago [West]

FILM DESCRIPTION: Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators’ market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike.

The short film “Painting by Numbers” by Radheya Jegatheva will precede the feature film. “Painting by Numbers” won the Sally Stovall Planet Warrior Prize for Creativity in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest 2023.

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Young Filmmaker Voices (for Families with Kids Age 7 to 12+)

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Young Filmmaker Voices (for Families with Kids Age 7 to 12+)

In Person, Saturday, April 20, 1:30 p.m.
Oak Park Public Library [W Suburbs]
Austin Branch Library [West]

Join us to see 7 short, winning films from the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest.

Badlands Bloom by Atiyeh Hess and Honei Semsar/2017/4 min; Green Gone by
Tess Moretti-Hill, Gabriel Jeffers, Mahea Dunn, Keanu Frith/2019/3 min; Bad Bugs by Bryn Wright/2021/2 min; Sporktagion by students of Heritage Middle School (Berwyn, Illinois)/2013/8 min; Submerged by Neo Sky James/2023/4 min; No Time to Waste, by students of Dryden Elementary School (Arlington Hts., Illinois)/2019/3 min; and My Brand New Car by Paulina Verdalet/2023/3 min.