from Cowspiracy
Climate Futures Film Series, 2015-2016
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FALL 2015
This Changes Everything (2015)
What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Documentary inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
A groundbreaking documentary following filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
WINTER 2016
Gasland (2010)
When Josh Fox receives a $100,000 offer from a natural gas company interested in exploring in his land in Pennsylvania’s Delaware River Basin, he decides to do his own research on drilling and the process known as fracking.
Leviathan (2012)
The experiences of the crew aboard a Massachusetts-based trawler illustrate the difficult and often-dangerous lives of commercial fishers.
Racing Extinction (2015)
Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, along with activists, scientists and others, draws attention to mankind’s role in a potential loss of at least half of the world’s species.
Dear Governor Brown (2015)
As this film explores, California is the third-largest producer of oil and gas in the nation, with all the downsides and pollution that come with the fossil fuel industry.
Under the Dome (2015)
Under the Dome is a 2015 self-financed, Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It was viewed over 150 million times on Tencent within three days of its release.
SPRING 2016
Snowpiercer (2013)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Director: George Miller
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Upstream Color (2013)
Director: Shane Carruth