DC Environmental Film Festival 2012 - Washington, DC

The DC Environmental Film Festival features 180 documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental and children's films from around the world. The films will be shown at more than 60 venues around Washington, DC, including museums, embassies, libraries, universities and local theaters. The critical relationship between health and the environment is a special theme of the 2012 Festival, which features cinematic work from 42 countries and 93 Washington, DC, United States and world premieres. Seventy-five filmmakers and 115 special guests will discuss their work at the festival. Most screenings are free to the public and include discussion with filmmakers or scientists.

Dates: March 13-25, 2012

Highlights of the 2012 DC Environmental Film Festival

• Iconic documentary filmmaker Ken Burns presents a sneak preview with clips from his upcoming film, The Dust Bowl. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker hosts a retrospective of her films, including her latest, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, winner of the Festival’s Polly Krakora Award for artistry in film. Eco filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia screens the world premiere of Symphony of the Soil, highlighting the significance of soil as an overlooked protagonist of Earth’s story.
  
  
• Academy Award-winning director Jessica Yu’s Last Call at the Oasis, a Washington, D.C. premiere, identifies the global water crisis as the central issue facing the world in this century. The world premiere of James Redford’s film, Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West, provides ideas on how to share the scarce water of the Colorado River. Ocean advocate Alexandra Cousteau focuses on a local river, the Potomac, in her clips presentation from Expedition Blue Planet: North America.
  
  
• Semper Fi: Always Faithful exposes the lethal results of water contamination – and coverup – by the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Selections from The Science of Healing with Dr. Esther Sternberg investigate the interplay between mind and body in health. Clips from the PBS series, “Designing Healthy Communities” explore the impact of the built environment on health.
  
  
• Someplace with a Mountain, The Hungry Tide and There Once Was An Island put a human face on climate change, showing how rising sea levels are threatening the survival of low-lying Pacific islands. The world premiere of Shattered Sky contrasts the lack of progress on climate change with the decisive action on the ozone layer 30 year ago.

Schedule of Films

See the official website for a complete schedule with specific times and locations. You may search by date, film category, family friendliness and for premieres only.