Young Filmmakers Contest Kicks Off Earth Week Mini Film Fest with Short Student Films
Filmmaker Q&A with Pamela Tanner Boll of 'To Which We Belong'
Q: Tell me about the film’s title.
A: It comes from a quote by Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)—a revered environmentalist of the past century. He said, "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." In other words, land is something we can’t live without. Humans don’t live in a vacuum. We depend as much on the health of the ants and the bees and the dung beetles and the soil as we do on the larger flora and fauna.
Filmmaker Q&A with Clement Guerra of 'The Condor and The Eagle'
Most people who get married and decide to have children build a nest and settle in. Clement and Sophie Guerra did the opposite: they cashed in their savings and flew to South America. The result of their deep commitment to listening and learning is the revealing documentary “The Condor and the Eagle,” a film that profiles women leaders of communities most impacted by the fossil fuel industry. It will be screening on Tuesday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. CDT.
Julie Howe interviewed Clement Guerra to learn more about why they made the film and what they learned.
14 Honorable Mention Winning Youth Films Will Screen April 24
See an environmental superhero fly through the sky, a time-traveling climate change reporter, and animals saved from Western wildfires.
As part of the Earth Day Mini Film Fest 2021, the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest will feature 14 Honorable Mention short films in two one-hour events on Saturday, April 24, at 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Online discussion with young filmmakers from California to Texas to New York will be facilitated by Young Filmmakers Contest Founding Director Sue Crothers.
Q&A with Wayne Visser of 'Closing the Loop'
A global sustainability expert, Wayne Visser, Ph.D., is a fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership and holds the chair in Sustainable Transformation Antwerp Management School in Belgium. He is the co-presenter of the documentary, “Closing the Loop,” which explores five key strategies for achieving circularity—reduce, reuse, recycle, renew and reinvent—by showcasing examples from Europe, Latin America and Africa. The documentary features insights from experts from the World Economic Forum and the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard. One Earth Film Festival publicist Cassandra West interviewed Visser via a Zoom chat recently.
Making the Pivot to Virtual in the Time of Covid-19
It’s March 6, opening night for the ninth One Earth Film Festival. Inside the Gold Coast Tesla showroom, the mood is festive. Champagne flows at a corner station. Guests throughout the car-filled space take group photos with their smartphones. Others wait in line for a Tesla test drive. The cheery sounds of party chatter fill the air.