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