Trip Jennings/2022/101 min/Climate Change, Conservation, Health & Environment

Wednesday, April 19, 6:30 p.m. CDT
In Person, Thatcher Woods Pavilion,
River Forest, IL [W Suburbs]

Wednesday, April 19, 6:30 p.m. CDT
In Person, Gorton Center
Lake Forest, IL [Lake County]
$10 Admission, $5 Students

Wednesday, April 19, 6:30 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Filmed across the West and narrated by Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actor David Oyelowo, “Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire” takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. The film follows the harrowing escape from Paradise, California as the town ignited from wind-driven embers and burned within a few hours of the fire's start. It then continues to the even more recent fires of the last two years, when Oregon, California and Colorado suffered their worst wildfires in recorded history.

Invisible Hand: Rights of Nature Documentary

Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman/2020/85 min/Water, Conservation

Friday, April 21, 6:30 p.m. [North]
In Person, Truman College, Chicago

Friday, April 21, 6:30 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Produced in-part by award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo, “Invisible Hand: Rights of Nature Documentary” takes you behind the curtain of the global economy where ‘Rights of Nature’ becomes “capitalism’s one true opponent.”

People in Toledo, Ohio, vote to grant Lake Erie the right to exist while others in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, protect groundwater from industrial waste. They, along with Defend Oh:yo’ and Standing Rock, are joined in an international fight to protect more than just water. They fight for their community, democracy, and for Nature as a living entity unto itself. In the end, "Who will speak for Nature?"