For the past 9 years, the One Earth Film Festival has filled up to 600 volunteer slots for everything from registration table greeters to clean up crews. This year. . . well. . . it’s going to be a little different. Due to COVID restrictions on large gatherings, we’re going virtual and national for our 10th anniversary season March 5-14.
Instead of a brew and view at Great Central Brewery or an after-service film at St. Giles Church, we’re bringing click-to-watch parties to sofas across the country.
If you’re one of our amazing, regular volunteers, you’ll get our screening nights off. You’ll watch 17 powerful, gorgeously-shot, can-you-believe-we-just-saw-that? films at home like everyone else. We won’t be asking you to help us check in 100 people at the door. You won’t need to take the Purple Line to the Green Line to get from your apartment in Evanston to the Garfield Park Conservatory and back again.
You can snuggle up on your sofa with your favorite slippers or your oldest kid or your furriest cat, and maybe pour yourself a nice cuppa jo or fill a stemless wine glass with a nice merlot.
Even though we won’t need you for our Zero Waste Station, we still need you. Become a One Earth Film Fest Booster.
Put on your One Earth Film Festival Volunteer t-shirt—okay you really don’t need to; it’s a metaphor—and help us get the word out FAR AND WIDE.
One beautiful thing about going virtual is that our audience can grow: we have more seats at each film screening and, for most films, they can be anywhere in the U.S.
We’ll provide social media, email and text messages you can adapt to your people—your friends, family, colleagues, faith community, book club—you get where we are going with this. It won’t take more than three 20-minute sessions to do this work, we promise.