DC Environmental Film Festival

“It’s the Cannes or Toronto for the green crowd.” — Roll Call

We are so excited about the DC Environmental Film Festival! The films are showcased from March 15- March 25th all around DC, in galleries, museums, theatres, and more, and most of them are free! For the complete schedule, click here https://dceff.org/festival/

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The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital is the world’s premier showcase of environmentally themed films. Since 1993 our mission has been to celebrate Earth and inspire understanding and stewardship of the environment through the power of film.

Each March in Washington DC, we host the largest environmental film festival in the world, presenting 100+ films to audiences of more than 30,000. Filmmaker and topical discussions are an important part of our events which happen at museums, embassies, libraries, universities and local theaters throughout the city. We also present a year-round screening series and community events.

Many of our screenings are free, and our Washington, DC location offers the unique opportunity for films and filmmakers to reach national and international lawmakers and decision-makers.  Our impact continues to grow both in DC and beyond.

We are the largest and longest-running environmental film festival in the United States.

 

Some films we are really excited for:

Jane

Oscar®- and Emmy®-nominated director Brett Morgen uses a trove of never-before-seen 16 mm footage unearthed after 50 years from the National Geographic archives to shed fresh light on trailblazing conservationist Jane Goodall. Morgen, described by The Wall Street Journal as “the leading revolutionary of American documentary film,” tells Goodall’s story starting in 1960, when the 26-year-old British woman arrives in a remote area of northwestern Tanzania to study chimpanzees. Driven by her love of animals but lacking any formal training, Goodall triumphs in a male-dominated field, challenging conventional research methods with her unique approach to wildlife observation. Patiently gaining the animals’ trust, she soon makes headlines with the discovery that chimps are highly intelligent and social creatures that use tools to gather food. When the dashing Dutch filmmaker Hugo van Lawick is sent to document her work in 1964, filmmaker and subject soon fall in love, marry and have a child together. But Goodall is shaken when her beloved chimpanzees succumb to an outbreak of polio and engage in a brutal war. Drawing on van Lawick’s stunning wildlife footage and exclusive interviews with Goodall, as well as research footage from the Jane Goodall Institute and Goodall family videos, Morgen offers an unprecedented, intimate portrait of a woman who defied the odds to become one of the world’s most admired conservationists.

 

Q&A — Judith Dwan Hallet (Filmmaker of The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall)

Introductions — Maryanne Culpepper (Executive Director, Environmental Film Festival) and Kathy Baughman McLeod, Global Environmental & Social Risk Executive (Bank of America)

 

Silas

Liberian activist, Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader, fighting to crush corruption and environmental destruction in the country he loves. Silasis a global tale that warns of the power of politics and celebrates the power of individuals to fight back. One man’s battle gains momentum and emboldens communities to raise their fists and smartphones, seize control of their lands and protect their environment. It is a new generation of resistance.

DIRECTOR: Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman

(Canada/Kenya/South Africa, 2017, 80 min.)

 

Dirt Rich

Through the exploration of geo-therapy strategies Dirt Rich presents impactful and timely solutions to reverse the effects of runaway global warming by re-stabilizing safe atmospheric carbon levels by returning carbon to the soil where it is desperately needed.