Climate

2040: The Regeneration

2040: The Regeneration

Damon Gameau/2019/92 min/ Environmental & Social Justice, People & Cultures, Climate Change

Monday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: Motivated by concerns about the planet that his 4-year-old daughter would inherit, award-winning director Damon Gameau embarked on a global journey to meet innovators and change-makers in the areas of economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, education and sustainability. This journey is the central premise for the documentary 2040, a story of hope that looks at the very real possibility that humanity could reverse global warming and improve the lives of every living thing in the process. It is a positive vision of what ‘could be’, instead of the dystopian future we are so often warned about.

Tickets available to viewers in the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. only.

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The Ants & the Grasshopper

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The Ants & the Grasshopper

Raj Patel and Zak Piper/2021/74 min/Climate Change, Environmental & Social Justice, Sustainable Food-Agriculture

Wednesday, March 9, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

Wednesday, March 9, 6 p.m. CST [West]
In Person, Chicago Public Library, Austin Branch

FILM DESCRIPTION: Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to America, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill to help Americans free themselves from a logic that is destroying the Earth.

Tickets available to U.S. viewers only.

Bring Your Own Brigade

Bring Your Own Brigade

Lucy Walker/2021/127 min/Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainable Architecture

Saturday, March 5, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: Raging, out-of-control wildfires have become part of the new normal around the globe, leaving heartbreaking devastation and death in their wake. In California, this harsh reality was underscored on Nov. 8, 2018, when several parts of the state were ablaze: the Camp Fire was ravaging most of the Northern California town of Paradise, and the Woolsey Fire was roaring through Malibu in the south. In the aftermath, residents face unthinkable loss. As they struggle to rebuild, they debate what could be done to prevent further tragedy.

Tickets available to U.S. viewers only.

Extinction: The Facts

Extinction: The Facts

Serena Davies/2020/58 min/Wildlife, Climate Change, Health

Sunday, March 13, 6:30 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: English broadcaster and historian, Sir David Attenborough, has encountered some of the world's most extraordinary animals and plants. But many of these wonders may now be destined to disappear from our planet forever. With 1 million species at risk of extinction, the huge variety of life on earth, known as biodiversity, is being lost at a rate never seen before in human history. This is a crisis not just for the natural world but for every one of us. This mass extinction threatens our food and water security, undermines our ability to control our climate and even puts us at greater risk for more pandemics.

Tickets available to U.S. viewers only.

Let Us Breathe

Let Us Breathe

Lizabeth Frohwein, Alisa Gao, Katie Jahns, Alexandria Wilt/15 min/2021/Environmental & Social Justice, Climate Change, Health

Sunday, March 13, 3 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: Follow the story of two teenagers as they go up against a serial polluter (General Iron scrap metal) moving into their already overly industrialized neighborhood in the southeast side of Chicago. Destiny and Greg show us what it's like to grow up in an area with dangerous air pollution and why they deserve better.

Created by four student filmmakers from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Will screen with The Campaign Against the Climate.

Life at 50 Degrees

Life at 50 Degrees

Namak Khoshnaw/2021/59 min/Climate Change, Environmental Advocacy, Environmental & Social Justice

Saturday, March 5, 3 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: With 2021 marked as the fifth hottest year on record, Life at 50 Degrees reveals how extreme temperatures around the world are wreaking havoc on nature, forcing climate migration, causing water shortages and triggering dangerous health conditions. By following people in seven countries, the film reveals the resourcefulness and resilience of many communities as they struggle to adapt and survive.

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On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air

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On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air

Tara Eng, Kristen Harrison, Alex Klein, and Alisha Tamarchenko/2021/25 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Health, Climate Change, Energy

Sunday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

Sunday, March 6, 5:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Euclid Ave. United Methodist Church, Oak Park [W Suburbs]

FILM DESCRIPTION: On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air is an urgent call for justice for Philadelphia's low-income communities. After years of living on the fenceline of the east coast’s largest oil refinery and suffering from several critical health issues – including cancer, asthma, and COPD – residents have come together to stand up to CEOs and fight for their right to breathe.

Will screen with The Sacrifice Zone: Life in an Industrial Wasteland.

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The Sacrifice Zone: Life in an Industrial Wasteland

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The Sacrifice Zone: Life in an Industrial Wasteland

Julie Winokur/2020/32 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Health, Climate Change

Sunday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

Sunday, March 6, 5:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Euclid Ave. United Methodist Church, Oak Park [W Suburbs]

FILM DESCRIPTION: The Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey, is one of the most toxic neighborhoods in the country. Maria Lopez-Nuñez, a Honduran-American resident there, is waging war for environmental justice. She is part of the Ironbound Community Corporation, one of the country's most effective environmental justice organizations. The Sacrifice Zone follows Maria as she leads a group of activists determined to break the cycle of communities impacted by environmental racism, serving as dumping grounds for our consumer society.

Will screen with On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air.