Evan Abramson & Carmen Elsa/ 2011/ 23 min/ Water

FILM DESCRIPTION: The award-winning short film by Evan Abramson & Carmen Elsa Lopez brings to life the daily struggles experienced by millions of residents living in western Kenya without easy access to safe drinking water. But the film is also about hope. It showcases a unique new public health program providing the region with sustainable access to clean water. The film chronicles the program start-up, when nearly 880,000 water filters were distributed for free to almost all homes in the region. It shows how this program’s unique carbon financing model ensures sustainability at no cost to residents, governmental agencies or donor groups.

Caroline Bacle/ 2013/ 72 min/ Water

FILM DESCRIPTION: Once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, we polluted rivers so much that they became conduits for deadly waterborne diseases like cholera, which was 19th century's version of the Black Plague. Our solution two centuries ago was to bury rivers underground and merge them with sewer networks. Today, under the city, they still flow, out of sight and out of mind… until now.

Jessica Plumb/ 2014/ 69 min/ Water

FILM DESCRIPTION: Return of the River offers a story of hope and possibility amid grim environmental news. It is a film for our time: an invitation to consider crazy ideas that could transform the world for the better. It features an unlikely success story for environmental and cultural restoration. Fundamentally, the Elwha River in Washington State is a story about people and the land they inhabit. The film captures the tenacity of individuals who would not give up on a river, mirroring the tenacity of salmon headed upstream to spawn.