Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

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. 

Follow the Drinking Gourd + Remothering the Land

Follow the Drinking Gourd + Remothering the Land

Thursday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. CDT [Central]
In Person, Old St. Pat's Church, Chicago

Thursday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. CDT [Central]
In Person, UIC Lecture Center F, Chicago

Thursday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD

Shirah Dedman/2019/60 min/People & Culture, Food & Agriculture

MIDWEST PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: “Follow the Drinking Gourd” is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny and moving, this film connects the legacy of slavery, capitalism and climate change to our fight for food security.

REMOTHERING THE LAND

Mark Decena/2022/10 min/People & Culures, Food & Agriculture

MIDWEST PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: This short film, a co-production with Patagonia Films, highlights traditional Indigenous farming practices as a source of resiliency for local communities, as well as solutions for the larger issues facing our Mother Earth.

Invisible Hand: Rights of Nature Documentary

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?"

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Earth Day Clean-Up at Columbus Park

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Earth Day Clean-Up at Columbus Park

EARTH DAY
Saturday, April 22, 9 a.m. CDT [West]
In Person, Columbus Park, Chicago

Sign up and join BUILD Chicago, Openlands, One Earth Collective, Field Museum, Friends of the Parks, Interfaith Green Network, Oak Park Climate Action Network, Seven Generations Ahead, and many other partners in an Earth Day clean-up of Harrison St and Columbus Park (near the Field House on Central Ave)! 

Location: Meet at pavilion/shelter house north of Columbus Park Field House on Central Ave, Chicago.

Schedule on Saturday, April 22, 2023:

  • 9:00 a.m. sign in at the shelter/pavilion

  • 9:00-11:30 a.m. trash clean-up, garden prep & mulching

  • 11:30-12:30 p.m. reflection & lunch

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Earth Day Action Fair

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Earth Day Action Fair

EARTH DAY
Saturday, April 22, 12:30 p.m. CDT [Central]
In Person, Chicago Cultural Center
2nd Floor Rotunda

Celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day by taking action for our planet! Join One Earth Film Festival, the City of Chicago's Office of Climate & Environmental Equity, and partners working on environmental and climate justice initiatives. Visit with groups to learn about and plug into their work, opportunities, and events. Enjoy refreshments and fellowship with other environmental advocates.

Then join a special Earth Day watch party of the award-winning film, "Biocentrics" (and dialogue with activists) from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Cultural Center's adjacent Claudia Cassidy Theater. These events are free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are highly encouraged. Reserve your spot now.

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Biocentrics

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Biocentrics

Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo, Ataliba Benaim/2022/107 min/Built Environment, Conservation, Climate Change

EARTH DAY
Saturday, April 22, 2 p.m. CDT [Central]
In Person, Chicago Cultural Center

Saturday, April 22, 2 p.m. CDT [Lake Cnty]
In Person, Wayfarer Theaters
Highland Park, $10 Admission, $8 Seniors

Saturday, April 22, 2 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

U.S. PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: How would you reinvent some part of your world using nature as a model? In “Biocentrics”, this and other provocations are answered by the eyes and voice of biologist Janine Benyus. Traveling to different corners of the planet, the film reveals the birth and principles that guide biomimicry, a transdisciplinary methodology of technological innovation inspired by a master with 3.8 billion years of experience.

Teens and young adults encouraged to attend.

The Street Project

The Street Project

Jennifer Boyd/2022/52 min/Built Environment, Transportation

Sunday, April 23, 3 p.m. CDT [West]
In Person, Chicago Public Library,
Humboldt Park Branch, Chicago

Sunday, April 23, 3 p.m. CDT [West]
In Person, Chicago Public Library,
Austin Branch, Chicago

Sunday, April 23, 3 p.m. CDT [South]
In Person, Big Marsh Bike Park, Chicago

Sunday, April 23, 3 p.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: “The Street Project” is the story about humanity’s relationship to the streets and the global citizen-led fight to make communities safer. Digging deep into the root causes of traffic violence, the filmmakers engage a diverse array of experts including street historian Peter Norton, city planner Jeff Speck, and urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen. These expert interviews are interwoven with the stories of real people working to make their communities safer.