Health

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.

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Girls for Future

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Girls for Future

Irja von Bernstorff/2021/88 min/Environmental Advocacy, Environmental & Social Justice, Health, Sustainable Food-Agriculture, Waste, Water

Sunday, March 13, 11 a.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

Sunday, March 13, 10:30 a.m. CDT
In Person, Institute of Cultural Affairs, Chicago [North]

FILM DESCRIPTION: Girls for Future follows four girls from Senegal, Indonesia, Australia and India who fight for a better future. Between the ages of 11 and 14, they are all directly affected by the consequences of environmental destruction. In the film, we see the global water crisis as it is playing out in Senegal. A visit to the girl from Indonesia highlights plastic waste pollution. A segment on the girl from India reveals the effects of the agricultural crisis. Finally, the Australian girl reveals the fatal destruction found within oceans and on land due to climate change.

Recommended for middle school+ general audiences.

Tickets available globally except to viewers in Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria.

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Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World

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Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World

Costa Boutsikaris and Anna Palmer/2020/76 min/Health, Sustainable Food-Agriculture, Historical Perspectives

Saturday, March 12, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

Saturday, March 12, 6 p.m. CST
In Person, First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, Chicago [Central]

FILM DESCRIPTION: Inhabitants follows five Native American Tribes as they restore their relationships to the land using ancient practices that nurture life. For millennia Native Americans stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains and prairies, Native communities are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. As the climate crisis escalates, these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.

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.

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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.

Understory: A Journey Through the Tongass

Understory: A Journey Through the Tongass

Margarida Cardoso/2021/40 min/Conservation, Wildlife, Health

Saturday, March 12, 11 a.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: Understory follows three women who set sail on a 350 mile expedition through Alaska’s massive Tongass National Forest. With individual connections to the rainforest, their goal is to explore how clearcut logging in this coastal rainforest could affect local communities and our planet’s climate while taking audiences on a journey through the beautiful, wild Tongass.

Will screen with Here We Stand.