February 27, 2018| CCSJ | By Jesse Fuerte |
The seventh annual One Earth Film Festival, the Midwest’s premier environmental film festival, officially begins with a “Green Carpet Gala” on Friday, March 2 and runs through March 11, 2018.
The festival coincides with CCSJ’s spring break and features dozens of free or affordable film screenings throughout Chicagoland.
But the festival began at Calumet College of St. Joseph with a pre-festival screening of the documentary “Shifting Sands: On The Path to Sustainability” (Shifting Sands). Nearly 80 people attended the screening and the panel discussion that followed.
Festival director Ana Garcia-Doyle says that, “We are a festival that uses film as a catalyst for conversation, for awareness raising, and ultimately for acting on behalf of our one and only planet.”
Encouraged by the increased number of volunteers and partners, this year’s festival theme is “This is the moment”. The festival features over 30 films including “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”, “Wasted! The Story of Food Waste”, “Rise: Sacred Water, Standing Rock” ; “Jane”, and “Dolores”.
Shifting Sands provides the history of ecological science in Indiana, which predates the Great Depression.
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