Maggie Hart and Brittany Zampella/2023/19 min/Waste, Health, Justice

FILM DESCRIPTION: “A Good Neighbor” is a feature-length documentary about a Latina single mother’s fight against racism and climate change as she campaigns for city council in one of the nation’s most polluted zip codes.

Farhoud Meybodi/2023/48 min/Waste, Health, Justice, Built Environment, People & Cultures

FILM DESCRIPTION: Amidst a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown of Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything to pioneer technology that transforms plastic waste into sustainable paving bricks. A former engineer in the oil and gas industry, Nzambi walked away from a lucrative career after a trip to the coastal city of Mombasa, where she discovered a sea of plastic bags and bottles in the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean. This inspired Nzambi to create a possible solution to the country’s plastics problem by converting waste into sustainable materials.

The short film “The Speech of Txai Surui” by the students of Escola Parque (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) will precede the feature film. This film won two awards in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest 2023.

VIEW & BREW tickets for Kehrein Center: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/view-brew-w-one-earth-collective-swsw-pt-3-tickets-881167544847?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

$25 includes film, food, and beverage starting at 5 p.m.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
The Kehrein Center for the Arts is the product of a years-long effort to restore an architecturally-significant but unused auditorium into a vibrant fine and performing arts center, complete with a 900-seat storytelling theater, art gallery, and community gathering place. Original construction was in 1954 by Belli & Belli.

In person tickets for Unity Temple: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthbound-nzambi-matee-a-good-neighbor-unity-temple-tickets-858539353317

Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.

In person tickets for Triton College:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthbound-nzambi-matee-a-good-neighbor-triton-college-tickets-858537668277?aff=oddtdtcreator

Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.

Maggie Burnette Stogner/2023/30 min/Water Justice, Conservation, Health

FILM DESCRIPTION: "Upstream, Downriver" takes viewers into the heart of the battle for water justice. Powerful stories with frontline community activists are interwoven with historical context about landmark regulations that significantly reduced water pollution in the U.S. but failed to serve disadvantaged communities that are hardest hit by today’s climate crisis. 

Giorgio Ghiotto/2023/30 min/Water Justice, Conservation, Health, People & Cultures

FILM DESCRIPTION: Vidal Merma, a Peruvian Indigenous journalist, risks his life daily to secure a future where his son, Erik, can savor the simple joy of drinking clean water. "Wings of Dust" is about a father's sacrifice, community resilience and the unwavering human spirit in the face of environmental injustice. This film won the 2023 Gold Medal Student Academy Award for Documentary and was also shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards for Documentary Short Film.

Two short films will precede the feature films: “The Island” by Mahmut Taş and “Submerged” by Neo Sky James. “Submerged” tied for the Animation Prize in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest 2023.

VIEW & BREW Tickets at Epiphany Center for the Arts: Chicago Tickets

Doors open at 5 p.m. for food and drink available for purchase,
networking, and self-tours of this adaptive re-use space.
Film program starts at 6 p.m.

ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.

In Person Tickets at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: Oak Park Tickets

Doors open at 5:15 p.m. for Action Fair and refreshments.
Film program starts at 6 p.m.

ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.

In Person Tickets at Park Ridge Community Church: Park Ridge Tickets

Doors open at 5 p.m. to meet action partners.
Film program starts at 6 p.m.

ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.

FREE VIRTUAL SCREENING + DISCUSSION
Mary Mazzio/2020/95 minutes

NOTE! As this event has a live, in-person, distanced, invitation-only component, the RAIN DATE for both the in-person and virtual components of this event is Thurs, Oct 1 @6:30-9PM US Central Time.

PLEASE JOIN US at a virtual, public screening & discussion of the acclaimed film "A Most Beautiful Thing (2020, 95 minutes)," hosted by the Park District of Oak Park, in partnership with RGW Consulting and One Earth Film Festival.

FILM DESCRIPTION: Called one of the best documentaries to unveil at South by Southwest by Brian Tallerico of Roger Ebert, an “absolute must watch” by Deadspin, and “a film we could really use right now” by Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter, “one of the best films this decade” by ChicagoNow. “A Most Beautiful Thing,” narrated by the Academy-Award/ Grammy-winning artist, Common; executive-produced by NBA Stars Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade, along with Grammy-award winning producer 9th Wonder; and directed by award-winning filmmaker (and Olympic rower) Mary Mazzio, chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago), all coming together to row in the same boat.

Following the film, Reesheda Graham Washington, owner of L!ve Cafe and Creative Space and RGW Consulting will lead an interactive, facilitated discussion about the film and its themes, including racial, social and environmental justice. Panelists include author and film subject Arshay Cooper, as well as local equity advocates Stephen Jackson, Christina Waters, Juanta Griffin, and Cate Readling. We will also dialogue about what healthy communities look like, and about community recreation—including in the community of Oak Park, Ill., where its Park District is embarking on a Community Recreation Center project that aims to meet the needs of its diverse community through inclusion and equity.