Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Form Short Film: TIDES
Best Long Form Short Film: THE CLIMATE BABY DILEMMA
Best Cinematography: DEEP TROUBLE
Best Direction: CARDBOARD SCAVENGERS
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
CARDBOARD SCAVENGERS, 14min,. USA
Directed by Marcela Moran, Maritza Bautista
The documentary explores scavenging practices in Laredo, Texas, focusing on the informal transborder recycling on the U.S.-Mexico border. The focus is on a married couple who are cartoneros (cardboard scavengers). Chole and Jose cross the border daily to collect cardboard and then transport it into Mexico to sell. The film depicts the ongoing interdependence of the economies of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo. It introduces audiences to two people who depend on scavenging practices that help both countries’ economies and recycling efforts.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
DEEP TROUBLE, 10min., USA
Directed by lavinia Currier
A film about the threat of deep sea mining featuring “her Deepness”, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and world renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
TIDES, 8min,. USA
Directed by Andre Silva
Filmed at Masonboro Island, an undeveloped barrier island in southeastern North Carolina, “Tides” contemplates the liminal space between the modern technological world and that more ecological dimension we label as “nature” or “the environment.”
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE CLIMATE BABY DILEMMA, 44min., Canada
Directd by Victoria Lean
“The Climate Baby Dilemma” explores what to expect when you’re expecting… the climate crisis. For an increasing number of people, a warming world is affecting their decisions about whether or not to have kids. As the conversation about intimacy and climate change heats up, we meet activists, journalists, parents and prospective parents, ethicists and scientists to unpack this growing trend.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 