For You is a letter from a father to his two-year-old son. This project is deeply intimate and personal, yet it carries a universal message: though the future may be uncertain, with love, courage, and imagination, we can build a better future. Set in Peckham, South East London, where the director lives with his family, the story is narrated in Italian, the language he has spoken to his son since birth. Now more than ever, the future of our planet appears uncertain, and our children are urging us to take action to help them build a better tomorrow. This film aims to foster a positive perspective. Instead of succumbing to fear, it inspires us to draw strength from our children and envision a brighter future—an idea truly worth fighting for.
Footprints On Katmai
Inspired by the sketches in his late grandmother’s sketchbooks, artist and filmmaker Max Romey retraces her travels to the remote beaches of Katmai Alaska with Ocean Plastics Recovery. There, he joins a group of marine debris experts and discovers there are a lot of people making footprints on Katmai without ever visiting.
Data Ghosts
Data Ghosts is an experimental video that combines art, technology, and science. It was developed during a recent fellowship at ZiF: Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany. The video includes images captured with a microscope, alternative photography processes, 3D LiDAR scans, and generative AI. This interdisciplinary approach examines parallels between the history of photography and the visual language being shaped by our rapidly evolving emerging technologies.
PANACEA
Ari, an introverted teen, moves to a new place due to her mother’s job. Amidst apocalyptic news and her mother's distraction, Ari's mental state deteriorates. Overwhelmed, she starts to lose grip on reality. Her breakdown leads to panic and she passes out. Awakening, Ari is drawn to the ocean, finding solace but unsure if it’s real or a dream.
Food From the Air
One of the biggest triggers of global warming is something all of us do every day: eating. Growing and processing food uses enormous amounts of energy, water, and chemicals and has created an overwhelming burden on our planet's resources. Fortunately, intrepid scientists and innovators around the world are responding to the crisis and reimagining entirely new ways of producing food.
Canary
Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate change—his life’s work evolving into a salvage mission to recover these priceless historical records before they disappear forever.
Common Ground
Big Picture Ranch and Area 23a present Common Ground—a hopeful and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” who produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food and are working to balance the climate—all while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life. The film explores how Americans from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different parts of the country share one thing in common—the very soil beneath their feet. The film investigates the power of “regenerative” farming systems—from large to small-scale farmers who are the champions of soil health as the key to unlocking more (and healthier) food to feed America and the world.
Electrifying Eugene
Following the work of Aya Cockram of Fossil Free Eugene, Arjorie Arberry-Baribeault of Beyond Toxics, Jan Hasselman of Earthjustice, Danny Noonan of Breach Collective, and Eugene’s Mayor Lucy Vinis, we explore how one community’s efforts to pursue electrification is being met with opposition from Oregon’s largest “natural” gas utility, Northwest Natural—and how by harnessing a groundswell of community support for fossil fuel controls, they are able to push back.