Your Guide to CFF's Earth Week Film Screenings in NYC
Celebrate Earth Week with powerful climate storytelling.
Earth Week is almost here, and we’re bringing films, conversations, and community together across NYC (and beyond!). Plus, discover a powerful new climate read, and don’t miss your chance to submit to CFF ’26.
In this Newsletter:
🏙️ CFF’s Earth Week Film Screenings in NYC
📖 Your Next Read: Climate Wayfinding by Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson
🎥 CFF Open Call Final Deadline (save 10% for Earth Week!)
🌱 Opportunities & Events
🏙️ CFF’s Earth Week Film Screenings in NYC
Based in NYC? Join one (or more) of our film screenings during Earth Week!
🎥 Film Screening: The Unfixing (2024, dir. Nicole Betancourt)
So popular we had to add a second screening! We’ll be at New Plaza Cinema for two days showing The Unfixing, a film that follows one woman’s quest for self-discovery after a surfing accident triggers inexplicable and life-altering symptoms. Guided by dreams, natures, and wisdom from others, Betancourt weaves an immersive diary of destruction, trauma, love, and renewal. Watch the trailer here.
📆 When: Saturday, April 18 at 12:15pm (sold out) AND Sunday, April 19 at 6:15pm (new showtime!)
📍 Where: New Plaza Cinema at Macaulay Honors College, 35 W 67th St, New York, NY 10023
🍿 What’s Playing: The Unfixing, followed by a live Q&A with the director and Furhana Husani, Waterfront Alliance’s Director of Programs and Climate Initiatives (4/18) and Gianna Lum, Co-founder of Climate Cafe NYC (4/19)
🤝 Partner Shoutout: This event is presented by CFF, Climate Imaginarium, and Women Make Movies.
🎥 CFF x WE ACT Earth Week Film Screening: Solar Solutions (NYC)
CFF and WE ACT for Environmental Justice are co-hosting Solar Solutions, our third-annual free Earth Week screening! This selection of short films focus on scaling solar energy and other clean energy solutions that are critical to tackling climate change and energy resilience issues. Food and refreshments will be provided.
📆 When: Monday, April 20 at 6pm (door and refreshments) / 7pm (screening and Q&A)
📍 Where: Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027
🍿 What’s Playing: The three short films below, followed by a panel and Q&A with director Jackson Hyland-Lipski and other clean energy experts.
Green the City (2021, dir. Kika Tuff, Elana Kimbrell, Rese Cloyd, Matt Talarico, and Pete Hoffman)
Powering a Nation with the Sun (2022, dir. Maya Lilly, Joel Bach, and Drew Magratten)
The Light Won’t Dim (2025, dir. Jackson Hyland-Lipski)
🤝 Partner Shoutout: This event is presented by CFF and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, featuring panelists from Fossil Free Media and Vote Solar.
🎥 Earth Day Screening: Oceania @ NYU
Join us for a free Earth Day screening of the feature documentary Oceania: Journey to the Center (2024, dir. Natalie Zimmerman). Oceania begins on a coral atoll—predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. The film invites us on a journey with a mother and her adult son as they strive to maintain their culture, freedom, and independence after decades of colonizing encounters. Watch the trailer.
📆 When: Wednesday, April 22 at 7pm
📍 Where: Cantor Center, NYU, 36 East 8th Street
🍿 What’s Playing: Oceania: Journey to the Center, followed by a Q&A conversation highlighting the emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of our current ecological moment, and their broader implications for climate communications and environmental justice.
🤝 Partner Shoutout: This event is presented in partnership with the NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress, the NYU College of Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum, Global Rise: Stories for the Future, and NYU Office of Sustainability.
📖 Book Launch: Climate Wayfinding
When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? That’s the question at the heart of Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, a new book by Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, writer, teacher, creator, co-editor of All We Can Save, and friend of CFF! Dr. Wilkinson gave introductory remarks at CFF’s first-ever Narrative Change Summit this past September.
A compassionate and empowering guide, Climate Wayfinding helps us navigate from ache to action, doubt to possibility—through stirring personal essays, wisdom of other climate leaders, and the beauty of poetry, art, and song. Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will find something grounding and generative in these pages and the proven process they share. It’s a book to read, as well as one you can “do.”
Order a copy, learn about reading groups, and find book tour events at www.climatewayfinding.earth. Until May 5, Bookshop.org is offering 15% off + a limited edition art print (promo code: Climate 15).
🎥 Earth Week Discount for CFF ’26 Submissions
Time is running out to submit a film to CFF ’26! We’re looking for bold storytelling across multiple genres and formats that helps move the climate conversation. Our final deadline is May 15.
PS: Since it’s Earth Week, we’re providing a special discount code until April 25th! Enter code CFFEarthWeek26 when completing your submission to unlock 10% off.
🌱 Opportunities & Events
4/16: Rhizome Fellowship: Pathways for Regenerative Futures Application Deadline
4/16: May 14: Human Impacts Institute Exhibition: 2026 Creative Climate Awards, Collective Power
4/17: Catapult Film Fund & True/False Film Fest: Rough Cut Retreat Application Deadline
4/18: CFF Screening of The Unfixing & Panel Discussion (sold out)
4/19: CFF Screening of The Unfixing & Panel Discussion (second screening—tickets available!)
4/20: CFF & WE ACT Solar Solutions Earth Week Screening & Panel
4/20: Catapult Film Fund Development Grant Application Deadline
4/21: Films of Return: Special Climate Short Film Screening + Q&A
4/25: Hahapocalypse: A Comedy Show to Support Climate Activists Under Attack
Ongoing: Northeast Historic Film, the Chicago Film Archives, & the Lesbian Home Movie Project, The Woman Behind the Camera
Ecoactus is updating our college / corporate level Climate Boot Camp at Ecoactus.org and we then hope to work on a high school level Climate Boot Camp - Portal and Competition. Our Boot Camp is a fantastic resource that is proving to be very successful. We now have a fantastic A.I. Action Planner on our Ecoactus.org website. On the front page just click on resources on the top and you will see it. It is trained on our Boot Camp and sits on top of Chat GPT. It is getting great reviews and we want our networks to use it to create their own Actions Plans, Elevator Pitches and Strategy Maps. Please check it out and we would welcome your feedback.
My personal hope is to develop Solar Festivals (including plug in Balcony Solar systems) across the country in our High Schools. Thanks, Pete Suchmann (retired educator and busier than ever)
Ecoactus would love a video discussing anything you would like to offer to our global network.
If you would like to collaborate with Ecoactus - please reach out to me at psuchmann@me.com or Michael Linn at michaelinn@outlook.com
This will give you a sense of Michael Linn…..
I’m on a mission to make sure the Earth remains safe and healthy for all living beings—largely because I have five sons who are counting on me to get it right.I currently spend my time as the Chairman of the EcoActUs Climate Boot Camp, an initiative developed by Climate Reality and Harvard Alumni for the Climate and Environment (HACE). Since we launched, I’ve had the privilege of training over 15,000 policy makers, teachers, and activists to find their voice and take action on the climate crisis.
My professional journey has been a wild mix of high-stakes tech and transformational leadership:
• I helped build a company and sold it to Microsoft.
• I helped design information systems for the Department of Energy.
• I was honored with the 2014 ASHRAE Global First Place Tech Award for educational buildings.
While my background is in energy, software technology, and finance, my heart is in social justice and human rights. I am a fierce defender of democracy and am deeply passionate about creating a regenerative economy. Whether I’m working with Inua Partners to help orphans overcome poverty or chairing the Alabama Climate Reality Business Working Group, I believe that our professional skills should serve our deepest values.
I’m a Harvard Business School and Harvard College (Cum Laude) graduate and a Climate Reality trained leader. But more than the degrees, I want to be known for being an advocate for a fairer, greener world.
If you believe that we can build a world where the economy regenerates the Earth rather than depleting it, let’s connect and make some noise together.
While I am asking……..
Could you give me a written or a video endorsement that I can use to promote the 3 eBooks and the consumable workbook for the series. My hope is to get the book series in front of as many students and teachers as possible. We must push back against the current administration and their proxies - like PragerU, the big banks and the fossil fuel industries and other sources of disinformation.
Below are the tables of contents for my books.
eBook #1 A brief introduction to the series.
Dedications
Introduction
Chapter 1- Some suggestions
Chapter 2- Become a Mosquito
Chapter 3- Starting an “Earth Club”
Chapter 4- APPS to Take ACTION with
Chapter 5- Lyrics, songs and music videos
Chapter 6- An Interdisciplinary approach is best
Chapter 7- What's UP in the US right now?
Chapter 8- Special Projects”
eBook #2 A comprehensive deep dive for students and teachers.
Start your journey here:
Introduction - How to have a Solar Festival at your school.
Chapter 1 Resources for High School Teachers and Students
Chapter 2 Starting an Environmental Action Club.
Chapter 3 Greening your school”
Chapter 4 Leadership and collaboration.
Chapter 5 Youth Led Climate Lawsuits.
Chapter 6 Green” Influencers. How to become one!
Chapter 7 Effective forms of Activism.
Chapter 8 Climate Science board games, video games and amazing digital simulations.
Chapter 9 Global Health and Climate change.
Chapter 10 Fundraising
eBook #3 A comprehensive deep dive for students and teachers - continued.
Chapter 11This chapter is your short cut to inspiration. If you don’t have time to read the entire book - Just read this….!
Chapter 12 Food Waste - Food for Thought! We are what we don’t eat!
Chapter 13 Fast Fashion – Being Thrifty! We are what we wear!
Chapter 14 Climate Migration and Climate Resiliency.
Chapter 15 Climate Based Competitions to Challenge You!
Chapter 16 Solutions! You are the Solution- you have been waiting for!
Chapter 17 Environmental Justice and Equity!
Chapter 18 Eco-Anxiety - Stop Doomerism - Try Domoreism!
Chapter 19 Debate the Issues - All You Need to Know!
Chapter 20 Conclusion
After thoughts…..
Book #4 Is a consumable workbook guiding the reader to source material in the eBook series that will help them develop and organize an effective Earth Action Club.
Here is the cover of the Workbook which also shows the covers of the other 3 ebooks.