Film festivals devoted to a full spectrum of environmental topics did not exist in the United States until 1993, the inaugural year of the DC
Environmental Docs
The 12th edition champions community cinema in an era of state censorship
In this interview, Otilia Portillo Padua talks about having a mycological (and sci-fi) approach to her SXSW and CPH:DOX film, Daughters of the Forest
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
This clip from Alexandra Kern’s Sundance-premiering short features its two Orleanian protagonists reflecting on their lives on Mississippi’s battures
Tamara Kotevska discusses how patiently filming white storks resulted in The Tale of Silyan’s story of North Macedonian ecological and economic
In this interview, Viktor Kossakovsky discusses leaving no stone unturned in Architecton
Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from longtime creative and life partners Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle’s Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency, the third film in the pair’s trilogy of queer environmentalist documentaries. Forced to evacuate a fire in the Northern California redwood forest sanctuary where Stephens and Sprinkle live, they channel their energy into their “ecosexual” art, a conceptual activist framework that reframes human relationships to nature to emphasize reciprocity. Playing With Fire premieres at Frameline, San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ film festival, this Friday.
Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman’s environmental documentary We Are Guardians (2023), which kicks off a U.S. theatrical screening tour this Friday in Los Angeles. The film, produced by Academy Award winner Fischer Stevens’s Highly Flammable in collaboration with Appian Way, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, is a comprehensive examination of the ongoing deforestation crisis in the Amazon Rainforest.
Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from Sasha Wortzel’s debut feature River of Grass, which has been on a tear since its premiere at True