Just can’t get enough of climate, media, and impact? Our Climate Week partner programs have you covered!
From Monday, September 22 through Sunday, September 28, we’re proud to extend the festival with our banner partners and friends. Check out our official recommendations below!
In this Newsletter:
💚 CFF Partner Programs during Climate Week NYC
💡 Solutions On Screen, Presented by Futerra and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance
✨ CFF Recommends
🙏 Thank You to Our 2025 Festival Sponsors & Supporters
PS. Don’t sit on buying tickets! Several programs are nearly sold out—including our closing night film Trade Secret.
💚 CFF Partner Programs & Friends
Monday, September 22
Water for Life Screening + Panel Discussion (Ford Foundation, 320 E 43rd Street): JustFilms presents a special screening of the award-winning documentary Water For Life, a powerful documentary that explores the critical collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the intimate stories of three Latin American community leaders. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, “Defending the Defenders.”
How on Earth? LIVE (Five Angels Theater @ The 52nd Street Project, 789 10th Avenue): So you've raged, rallied, and networked all day? Now it's time to laugh and celebrate! How on Earth? is a brand-new, makeover-style show where five Earth Archetypes (experimental scientist systems thinker / gap bridger / artistic imagineer / embodied mystic) team up to help one brave local tackle their real-life climate question. It’s part comedy, part community experiment, and all heart.
Tuesday, September 23
Climate Storytelling Through the Moving Image (Mabou Mines, 150 1st Avenue): Join the co-founders of the Climate Film Festival, Swissnex, and Fondation2291 for a screening of selected short films and an engaging panel discussion that explores short film as a powerful medium for communicating climate challenges and catalyzing solutions.
Climate Week with Urbane Film Screenings (The Urbane Arts Club, 1016 Beverley Road, Brooklyn): Presented by Projecting, Much?!, this screening will be showcasing a selection of shorts featured at CFF. Following the screening, join for a conversation featuring Grist's Manager of Climate Fiction & Brand Partnerships, Tory Stephens, and filmmakers from the festival.
Wednesday, September 24
Hope & Healing: Climate Grief Film Screenings (Climate Imaginarium, 406A Comfort Road): Join the Climate Imaginarium for a New York Climate Week double feature screening event, showcasing climate grief on the big screen. The night will include screenings of the films Good Grief: The 10 Steps and Healing Lahaina, as well as grounding exercises, plant-based treats, and a special Q&A session.
Saturday, September 27
HAHApocalypse (Caveat, 21 A Clinton Street): See comedians of all kinds tackle the greatest challenge of our time and call out the bad guys burning down the livable climate so they can buy a 5th house. From standup to sketch, impressionists to fake TED-talkers, each show features a completely different lineup of outstanding comic talents from New York and beyond, all finding the ha-has in the existential threat of climate crisis.
Sunday, September 28
Zeitgeist: Harnessing The Storms Of Change (Prime Produce, 424 W 54th Street): This interactive workshop will consider the CFF zeitgeist from festival conversation with audiences and filmmakers and the films we’ve shared. Explore strategies for crafting rich climate narratives for the screen. Identify burning questions that can motivate a climate story, research methods and narrative strategies that reflect the complexity of our climate-changed world. We’ll examine the role stories play in fostering empathy, shifting perceptions, and inspiring audiences in meaningful dialogue to drive civic engagement.
💡 Solutions on Screen
Don’t miss “Solutions on Screen,” an afternoon of entertainment-related programming at Futerra’s Solutions House in collaboration with the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance!
📆 Tuesday, September 23, 1:00-5:30 PM
📍Lavan Midtown New York, 641 W 42nd St
1:00-2:00 PM: From Bollywood to Love Island: Stories that Reach Beyond the Climate Bubble. Discover how climate and sustainability is authentically showing up in unexpected films and TV and reaching new audiences.
2:15-2:45 PM: Extreme Sports, Extreme Weather: Thrills for a Thriving Planet. World-famous climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell discuss the high-octane intersection of extreme sports and climate action.
3:00-3:50 PM: Let’s Make a (Brand) Deal: The Billion Dollar Opportunity. Leading voices from some of the world’s biggest brands explore exciting opportunities to inspire sustainability on screen.
4:00-4:30 PM: Policy Plotlines: The Truth Behind the Scenes. Creatives and policy thinkers unpack how screen content can spark public imagination and lead to real-world impact.
4:45-5:30 PM: Voices from the Frontlines: Hope, Culture and Climate Justice. Global artists and changemakers from the frontlines invite you on a journey towards a just and resilient climate future.
📆 Wednesday, September 24
📍Lavan Midtown New York, 641 W 42nd St
7:00-10:00 PM: Climate Creatives Cocktail. Climate meets culture – over cocktails and canapés! Join Futerra and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance in a vibrant celebration of sustainability and storytelling. Mix, mingle, and spark ideas with fellow creatives, changemakers, and visionaries blending climate with creativity.
✨ CFF Recommends
Thursday, September 18
Imagining Climate Futures (Queens Council on the Arts, 5-11 47th Avenue Queens, NY 11101): Join Climate Futures Studio, Ofrenda Fest, and Grist at the Queens Council on the Arts for an immersive exhibition exploring how frontline youth are using art to imagine just climate futures. This event features original works from the 2025 cohort of Climate Storytelling 2075, young artists from BIPOC, queer, and frontline communities who offer bold, hopeful, and justice-rooted visions of the year 2075. It also features work from Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, a climate fiction initiative engaging writers from across the globe in envisioning the next generations of climate progress.
Monday, September 22
Broadway Climate Summit (520 8th Ave, 3rd Floor): Broadway climate summit, A one-day summit in NYC, Bringing together theater professionals and climate advocates to reimagine an industry that prioritizes sustainability, climate storytelling, and theater as a cultural movement for our planet.
The Impact Lounge Presents: Creators Take on Climate and Mental Health (Impact Lounge @ Rockefeller Center): Actors, creators and changemakers explore climate as the ultimate public health issue, addressing air quality, stress, resilience, and community support for everyone navigating this global issue. We’ll showcase films and organizations making a difference, have candid conversations and close with a cocktail reception.
🙏 Thank You to our 2025 Festival Sponsors & Supporters
Support for the festival comes from The Carmack Collective, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), Universal Pictures, Nespresso, Agog, Watershed, Climate Power, Earth Rising Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, SNØCAP, Tidal Vision, Pique Action, Earthrise Studio, and The Puffin Foundation.
The Guardian is the presenting media sponsor. The festival logo and design come from Studio Rodrigo. Legal services are from Romanette Legal. Earth Angel is the sustainability partner. Ecodeo created the festival trailer. The Everset provided furniture. Edge Auto loaned electrical vehicle services. The marquee theater partner is Regal. Awards are hand-crafted by Fernanda Uribe-Horta. Business development services were provided by ImpactECI.
Food and beverage in-kind partners include Bronx Brewery, Stumptown,Cafe d’Avignon, and Open Water. Screenings and events take place at DGA Theater, Regal Essex Crossing, Essex Market, and SVA Theatre.
This project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the funding agencies the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), and the Howard Gilman Foundation, and administered by LMCC.
