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. This film was a New York International Women's Film Festival Semi-Finalist.
Recommended Age 13+
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. A former engineer in the oil and gas industry, Nzambi walked away from a lucrative career after a trip to the coastal city of Mombasa, where she discovered a sea of plastic bags and bottles in the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean. This inspired Nzambi to create a possible solution to the country’s plastics problem by converting waste into sustainable materials. This film won the Tribeca X 2023 Feature Film Award and Clio Silver Award for Feature Film.
Recommended Age 13+
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.
VIEW & BREW: Friday, April 19, 6 to 8:30 p.m. CDT
$25 includes film, food, and beverage starting at 5 p.m.
Kehrein Center for the Arts [West]
5628 W. Washington St., Chicago
Post-film discussion facilitated by
Reesheda Graham Washington, Founding Executive Director, Kehrein Center
Panelists:
Jordan Campbell, Founder and Director, alt_ Chicago
Farhoud Meybodi (Director, Earthbound) available by Zoom
Lucy Molina (Film Subject, A Good Neighbor) available by Zoom
Tabler: Oak Park Climate Action Network.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
The Kehrein Center for the Arts is the product of a years-long effort to restore an architecturally-significant but unused auditorium into a vibrant fine and performing arts center, complete with a 900-seat storytelling theater, art gallery, and community gathering place. Original construction was in 1954 by Belli & Belli.
IN PERSON: Friday, April 19, 6 to 8:30 p.m. CDT
Unity Temple, 875 Lake St., Oak Park [W Suburbs]
Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
Unity Temple was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Oak Park Unity Church and completed in 1908. The congregation, now called Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation, has been the primary occupant ever since. The building is open for tours during weekdays and Saturday morning. The building underwent a complete renovation in 2016-17 and that is when geo-thermal heating and cooling was added. Our building was named a Unesco World Heritage site in 2019.
IN PERSON: Friday, April 19, 6 to 8:30 p.m. CDT
Triton College, R Building Performing Arts Center
2000 Fifth Ave., River Grove [W Suburbs]
Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
Post-film discussion co-facilitated by:
Ben Kadlec, Sustainability Coordinator, Triton College
Karen Kitto, Executive Director, Pro Musica Youth Chorus
Panelist:
Julie Moller, Principal, JM Environmental Advocacy & Activism (plastic waste expert)
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
A One Earth Film Fest host since 2014, Triton College offers a vibrant focus on sustainability through degrees/certificates offered, clubs, and campus-wide efforts. Triton also is home to the Cernan Earth and Space Center, a public planetarium serving the surrounding community with a variety of sky shows, exhibits, and more.