Films A-Z (2017) — One Earth Film Festival

Edward Seley

Edward Seley

Before the Flood (one earth film festival 2017)

Before the Flood (one earth film festival 2017)

Fisher Stevens/2016/93 min/Climate Change

Sunday, March 5, 12:30 p.m. [South][VR]
St. Benedict the African-East, Chicago

Saturday, March 11, 6:30 p.m. [Lake Cnty]
College of Lake County, Grayslake

ENGLISH SOUNDTRACK WITH SPANISH SUBTITLES: If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want to know? Before the Flood, presented by National Geographic, features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand. He goes on expeditions with scientists uncovering the reality of climate change and meets with political leaders fighting against inaction.

Can You Dig This?

Can You Dig This?

Delila Vallot/2015/84 min/Food-Agriculture

Saturday, March 4, 3 p.m. [West]
Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago

Tuesday, March 7, 7 p.m. [South]
St. Paul & the Redeemer Church, Chicago

FILM DESCRIPTION:  South Los Angeles. What comes to mind is gangs, drugs, liquor stores, abandoned buildings and vacant lots. The last thing that you would expect to find is a beautiful garden sprouting up through the concrete, coloring the urban landscape. Calling for people to put down their guns and pick up their shovels, these "gangster gardeners" are creating an oasis in the middle of one of the most notoriously dangerous places in America.

How to Let Go of the World

How to Let Go of the World

Josh Fox/2016/125 min/Climate Change

Thursday, March 2, 7 p.m. [W Suburbs]
Dominican University, River Forest

FILM DESCRIPTION: In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?

Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things

Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things

Matt D'Avella/2016/79 min/Waste

Tuesday, February 21, 7 p.m. [North]
Loyola University, Damen Student Center, Chicago

SOLD OUT!
Saturday, March 4, 7 p.m. [W Suburbs]
Good Earth Greenhouse, River Forest

FILM DESCRIPTION: How might your life be better with less? Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker—all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less

A Plastic Ocean (One earth film fest 2017)

A Plastic Ocean (One earth film fest 2017)

Craig Leeson/2016/100 min/Waste

Friday, March 10, 6:30 p.m.
[Lake County][VR]
College of Lake County, Grayslake

SOLD OUT!
Saturday, March 11, 3 p.m. [Downtown]
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

FILM DESCRIPTION: In the center of the Pacific Ocean gyre our researchers found more plastic than plankton. A Plastic Ocean documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain where they attract toxins like a magnet. These toxins are stored in seafood’s fatty tissues, and eventually consumed by us. 

Seed, The Untold Story

Seed, The Untold Story

Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz/2016/93 min/Food-Agriculture

Monday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. [North]
North Shore Country Day, Winnetka

FILM DESCRIPTION: In our modern world, seeds are in grave danger. In less than a century of industrial agriculture, our once abundant seed diversity—painstakingly created by ancient farmers and gardeners over countless millennia—has been drastically winnowed down to a handful of mass-produced varieties. Under the spell of industrial “progress” and lust for profit, our quaint family farmsteads have given way to mechanized agribusinesses sowing genetically identical crops on a monstrous scale. 

Sustainable

Sustainable

Matt Wechsler/2016/92 min/Food-Agriculture

Saturday, March 4, 10 a.m. [W Suburbs]
Lake Theatre, Oak Park

FILM DESCRIPTION: A vital investigation of the economic and environmental instability of America’s food system, from the agricultural issues we face — soil loss, water depletion, climate change, pesticide use — to the community of leaders who are determined to fix it. Sustainable is a film about the land, the people who work it and what must be done to sustain it for future generations.

Time to Choose

Time to Choose

Charles Ferguson/2015/94 min/Climate Change

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Sunday, March 5, 10 a.m. [Dupage County]
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst

SOLD OUT!
Sunday, March 5, 1 p.m. [Dupage County]
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst

FILM DESCRIPTION: Oscar-winning documentary director Charles Ferguson captures the urgency and innovation of this critical moment in his new film.

Time to Choose also features world-renowned innovators, and thought leaders who point the way to a better world. Dr. Jane Goodall connects climate to the places and animals we love. Governor Jerry Brown urges leaders to join the path to sustainability and Chinese wind and solar manufacturers discuss how they’ve built some of the largest renewable energy installations in the world.