Film Festival!

10 films from 4 continents in 2 hours! Climate Future Film Festival!

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action invites you to join us (and co-host Green Sanctuary Committee)

for Merlyn Climate Grants Climate Future Film Festival, in the social hall at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, (232 Third St.).

We plan two, free-admission screenings:

Thursday, March 20, at 7:00pm

or

Saturday, March 22, at 2:00pm

This traveling festival of award-winning short films explores the full range of human and artistic response to what may be coming next. The 10 short films – drama, satire, comedy, films of hope and films of sadness, documentary and animation – were created by filmmakers from four different continents.

Bill McKibben, one of  America’s leading voices and authors on climate, is the Festival’s Honorary Judge and introduces it on screen.

While climate change is front-page news, in our own back pages many are grieving. Or numb. Or outraged. Or frightened. Or isolated and feeling hopeless. Others may be oddly celebrating a future of climate disorder. Watch the trailer and see the descriptions of the films at https://www.climatefuturefilm.com

Calling all filmmakers: The Festival is produced by Merlyn Climate Grants (Merlyn Education and Climate Protection Project), a Rhode Island 501(c)3). Merlyn is currently accepting short film submissions for their second Festival, which will premiere in Rhode Island in late 2025 and  tour throughout 2026. Rules and information about submissions are available at https://filmfreeway.com/ClimateFuture

Adeline Bailey, MOVCA program organizer.