🍿 Your Guide to Saturday at CFF
Films, workshops, and creative sessions—see what’s happening today at CFF!
Today’s program showcases the range of climate storytelling, from family shorts and premieres to thought-provoking panels and live sessions. Here’s your guide to everything happening on Saturday.
In this Newsletter:
🍿 What’s Playing: Your Guide to Saturday Films
🎥 Schedule of Events: Saturday Panels & Workshops
📍 How to Get to CFF
🙏 Thank You to Our 2025 Festival Sponsors & Supporters
🍿 Saturday Films
📍 Regal Essex Crossing, 129 Delancey Street, New York, NY 10002
We have a full slate of incredible films screening all day today. Check out the schedule below and grab your tickets if you haven’t already!
10:15 AM || Seedling Shorts: Family & Kids + kid-friendly performance by Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick (Cinema 11)
10:30 AM || River of Grass (Cinema 9)
12:00 PM || Soft Rains, Hard Truths: Narrative Shorts + Q&A (Cinema 11)
1:00 PM || Raising Aniya + Q&A (Climate 9)
2:30 PM || The Jungle + Q&A (Cinema 11)
3:30 PM || Tectonics: Experimental Shorts + Q&A (Cinema 9)
5:00 PM || Centerpiece: The White House Effect + Q&A (Cinema 11)
6:00 PM || Firebreak + Q&A (Cinema 9)
7:45 PM || The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard (Cinema 11)
8:15 PM || Black Snow + Q&A (Cinema 9)
🎥 Saturday Panels & Events
📍 Make/Change Mezzannine at Essex Market, 88 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
Alongside the films are 6 sessions to spark collaboration and creativity. These events are all free, but reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis.
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM || Climate Writer’s Room: CFF X Film Independent Writers Workshop
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM || Beyond the Box Office: Alternative Paths to Audience and Impact
12:30 - 1:30 PM || Sustainable Production: Lightning Talks
2:00 - 3:15 PM || From Page to Stage: Table Read of a Comedy Pilot from NRDC’s Storytelling Fellowship
3:30 - 5:30 PM || Carbon Copy: A Narrative Pitch Competition
6:00 - 7:30 PM || Plant-Based Happy Hour w/ Filmmakers and Friends
How to Get to CFF
Saturday, September 20 & Sunday, September 21: Film Screenings & Programming
📍 Location (Film Screenings): Regal Essex Crossing, 129 Delancey Street, New York, NY 10002
📍Location (Panels & Programs): Essex Market, 88 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
🕚 When: Events begin at Regal at 10:00 AM and go all day!
🚊 How to Get There: Take the F, M, J, or Z trains or the M14A-SBS or M9 bus.
💡 Things to Know:
Our weekend events take place in two venues in the same building: All film screenings will take place at Regal Essex Crossing, while all panels, workshops, & public programs will take place at the Make/Change Mezzanine at Essex Market.
Events and screenings are happening all day on Saturday and Sunday. See our film schedule and our program schedule and mark your calendar for the events you’ve signed up for.
🙏 Thank You to Our 2025 Festival Sponsors & Supporters
Premiere Sponsors: The Carmack Collective, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Visionary Sponsors: Agog, Nespresso, Universal Pictures,
Champion Sponsors: Compassion in World Farming, Climate Power, Earthrise Studio, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mercy for Animals, Pique Action, The Puffin Foundation, SNØCAP, Tidal Vision, and Watershed.
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. Compostable supplies are provided by SupplyClub. Awards are hand-crafted by Fernanda Uribe-Horta. Business development services were provided by ImpactECI.
Food and beverage in-kind partners include Bronx Brewery, Bear’s Fruit, Cafe d’Avignon, Just Ice Tea, Open Water, Remedy Organics, Rethink Food, and Stumptown. 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.