👩🌾 Food, Film, and Climate, Earth Week Recap, and More!
Join us for our next event at Rethink Food with the Ceres Food Film Festival, and thank you to our wonderful Earth Week partners
Hi all,
We wanted to give a big shout out to all of our incredible partners for their collaboration on our first-ever Earth Week mini-fest! Catch photos and recaps of the events below, including resources for further learning. In case you missed it/are looking forward to checking out more CFF events, we’re excited to announce our upcoming program on May 30th at Rethink Food around sustainable agriculture, regenerative farming, and climate solutions, organized in collaboration with the Ceres Food Film Festival. Also, for filmmakers and friends of filmmakers, don’t forget: our final submissions deadline is coming up on June 3rd! Finally, scroll down for some weekend fun, created by our cool partners at Ecodeo.
Upcoming Film Screening + Panel on May 30th — RSVP Now!
Join the Ceres Food Film Festival and CFF from 7-9:30pm on May 30th at Rethink Food’s gorgeous new space for a screening of the award-winning documentary short Grass Farmers (dir. Chad Galloway, 2020) and a thought-provoking panel discussion! The evening will highlight topics ranging from contemporary practices in regenerative agriculture to sustainable food systems, featuring speakers including:
Ken Baker, Culinary Director, Rethink Food
Michael Robinov, Co-founder and CEO of Farm To People
More to be announced shortly!
Program:
- 7:00 PM: Check-in
- 7:30 - 8:30 PM: Film Screening followed by a Panel
- 8:30 - 9:30 PM: Networking and Mingling
About the film:
Grass Farmers (dir. Chad Galloway, 2020) is a short film that explores the intricate relationship between traditional land management practices and modern environmental sustainability efforts, blending personal stories and expert insights to show how land management techniques can contribute to a sustainable future.
Tickets: $30 (food and wine included!) RSVP on Eventbrite
Earth Week Mini-Fest Recap
A heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us for our Earth Week programs, and to our awesome partners who helped make these events happen!
Photo courtesy Jesse R. Tendler, featuring King Coal director Elaine McMillion Sheldon and CFF Executive Director Alec Turnbull at Asia Society
We kicked things off with an intimate, thought-provoking screening of Our Children’s River (dir. Dominic Gill, 2023), a short documentary that features indigenous guards protecting the Ecuadorian Amazon, in collaboration with MYCO and the Honnold Foundation.
Next up was a screening of King Coal (dir. Elaine McMillion Sheldon, 2023) in partnership with Asia Society’s critical COAL+ICE exhibition. A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. Check out the post-screening Q&A with Elaine McMillion Sheldon and CFF Executive Director Alec Turnbull here!
Finally, we were grateful to screen Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (dir. Judith Helfand, 2020) in partnership with WE ACT for Environmental Justice at the Maysles Documentary Center. The program offered a deep dive into the intersections between poverty, race, and the impacts of natural disasters, prompting, as our program partner Caleb Smith writes, “important discussions on disparate climate health outcomes and discriminatory policy decisions disadvantaged communities are still working to remedy.” A post-screening Q&A featured panelists from WE ACT, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and South Bronx Unite.
Photo courtesy Oliver Jaskowski, featuring panelists (left to right): Leslie Vasquez (South Bronx Unite), Kim Knowlton (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Elijah Hutchinson (NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice), and Caleb Smith (WE ACT) at the Maysles Documentary Center.
WE ACT and the panelists have generously shared the following resources to help you reduce the risk of heat related illness, follow updates about climate change and its health impacts, and learn more about policy and resilience strategies to eliminate heat related illness in New York City:
Also, stay tuned for more events and information from WE ACT and the Extreme Heat Coalition all summer, including the release of their 2024 Extreme Heat Policy Agenda, a comprehensive suite of recommendations to advance heat adaptation and resilience.
Check out our Spring 2024 teaser trailer, created by our awesome partners at Ecodeo!
Opportunities & Events
🎨 Climate Imaginarium Launch Party on Governors Island (May 18)
Come to Governors Island for the grand opening of our Climate Imaginarium house! The Climate Imaginarium will serve as a community center for climate and culture, with galleries and spaces for exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and events that respond to the climate crisis with solutions and visions for hope and justice. Join us at Building 406A on Colonels Row for a lively celebration of climate art, storytelling, and community.
🌐 Jackson Wild’s My World Film Grant (Due May 29)
In an effort to contribute to the filmmaker pathways and to develop environmental filmmaking talent, Amberjack Films and Schoolyard Films, in partnership with Jackson Wild, have created a program of funded scholarship films, where early-stage filmmakers are sponsored to make a short 10-20 minute film on a nature or environmental story wherever they come from in the world.
🌳 Forest for Trees Collective Call for Art (Due May 29)
FOREST FOR TREES is a diverse and expanding collective of artists working across creative disciplines to address issues of environmental, social, and political importance. FOREST FOR TREES creates and curates multimedia, genre-expanding environmental artworks that address gaps in climate, environmental, and ecojustice education in spaces and places where captivating art, engaging events, and educative programming are needed and supported.
📹 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival (Due May 31)
PLURAL+, a collaborative effort between the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in New York, invites young creators aged up to 25 years old to submit original and creative short films of up to 5 minutes in length, on the enduring themes of migration, diversity, and social inclusion. This year, UNAOC and IOM will confer a Special Recognition for Inclusive Action on Climate Change and its impact on Migration.
Upcoming Opportunities
🚫 Independence from Plastic: A ‘Micro’ Plastic-Free Film Contest (Due June 7)
✍️ Grist’s Imagine 2200: Write the Future (Due June 24)
🎤 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship (Due Dec. 5)
🪨❄️ Coal + Ice @ Asia Society (Ongoing)