According to NASA Climate change reports, the current global warming trend is particularly significant due to increasing human activity since the mid 20th century. Pollution, extinction and forced migrations are some of the consequences we continue to face due to this urgent crisis. ‘Eco-Warrior’ recognizes the efforts of those amongst us that continue the fight against human-made mass extinctions and emissions. You will meet children, plants, animals, tribes, communities, artists, activists, grassroots organizations and future generations whose sole ambition is to leave the world better than they found it. Resistance and collaboration are the core values driving these forces to involve, educate and inspire others to join in the fight.

- Ivy Akinyi

Water Warriors

FILM United States 2016
Michael Premo

Water Warriors is the story of a community's successful fight to protect their water from the oil and natural gas industry. In 2013, Texas-based SWN Resources arrived in New Brunswick, Canada to explore for natural gas. The region is known for its forestry, farming and fishing industries, which are

Fabula Rasa (Parades)

FILM France 2017
Sarah Arnold

Faced with the injustices of this world, Margot has lost all hope in the future. Giving up on politics, she decides to entrust her fate to the Dardu, a legendary carp that supposedly predicts the future. But the lake's rules have changed: fishing is now forbidden. Face aux injustices du monde, Margo

Mama Qota

FILM Peru, United States 2017
Marianne Asher

Mama Qota is a seventeen minute documentary interviewing Aymaran men (native Peruvians) in thier own language (subtitles in English). These community representatives (the women wouldn't speak on camera) illuminate our understanding of how this culture relates to the lakes in thier home land as an ex

Afforesting Iceland

FILM Iceland 2017
Ewa Hermanowicz

Has Iceland always been a treeless land? Can any forests grow on this island of glaciers and volcanos? The film responds to these questions by telling a story of the forestry in Iceland. It explains why considering the genetic aspects of seeds, cuttings and seedlings is key for resilient forests in

Home (2018)

FILM Greenland 2018
Inuk Jørgensen

A personal perspective on coming home after nearly a decade abroad and finding that something is off in the familiar paradise. A warning that profound change is coming. Change that will influence future generations. In 10 years everything changes...

Quimsacocha

FILM Canada 2018
Émilie Martel

For the downstream communities of the high mountains of Quimsacocha, water is sacred. So when the giant Canadian company set their eyes to mine their land for gold and copper, 30-year-old Bolivar and 73-year-old Isaura were not happy. Isaura and Bolivar rely on water for their livelihood. Isaura own

The Shouting Flower

FILM Canada / USA 2018
Derek Jenkins

A work about collaboration and process, "The Shouting Flower" approaches political resistance from multiple subject positions--plant, child, filmmaker--in an attempt to model what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing calls "work across difference." Using images processed in plant material that was gathered at key

The Island

FILM Canada 2018
Alexandra Gelis

A garden between Oakland and Berkley where its inhabitants, marginalized by gentrification, plant fruit trees and flowers to pay homage to their loved ones who died in battles against poverty. This is a space of love and freedom cared by Brian for the last 25 years. The island resists, as a living l

Gulf (2016)

FILM Canada 2016
Dan Browne

This film was shot on the north shore of Cuba looking towards the Gulf of Mexico, just months before 4.9 million barrels of oil was spilled by Deepwater Horizon between April 20-July 15, 2010. Wave patterns fill the frame, tearing apart the filmstrip itself. Selected Screenings: Berwick FIlm & Media

Another Life

FILM Austria 2019
Jan Prazak

Alex lives as a hermit on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. He rarely socializes with human beings, sharing his life with animals instead – birds, geese, donkeys. Smaller creatures also find shelter at his place. Observing flies and spiders through a jeweler's loupe, Alex takes pains that the law

Paradise Lost

FILM Canada 1970
Evelyn Lambart

This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other woodland creatures succumbing to air pollution ca

If You Love This Planet

FILM Canada 1982
Terre Nash

This Oscar®-winning short film is comprised of a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic Dr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility in the USA. Her message is clear: disarmament cannot be postponed. Archival footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and images

H2O

FILM Sri Lanka 2015
Thiwanka Mihiran

A little boy of 10 years joyously walks in the jungle, enjoying the beauty of the waterfalls and animals. Decades later, a child, while watching such sceneries on TV, is drinking canned water. The original location of these sceneries shown on TV, have been transformed into residential areas after wa

Telescope

FILM United States 2013
Collin Davis Matt Litwiller

The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster than light into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant planet. When his vessel is damaged he must take matters into his own hands, risking his life to witness humanity's lost home

Rise of the Eco-Warriors

FILM Indonesia 2014
Dr Cathy Henkel

Every individual matters, every action counts. A group of passionate and adventurous young people leave their known worlds behind to spend 100 days in the jungles of Borneo. Their mission is to confront one of the great global challenges of our time, saving rainforests and giving hope to endangered

Man

FILM United Kingdom 2012
Steve Cutts

Animation short looking at mankinds relationship with the natural world.

Detroit Hives

FILM USA 2019
Palmer Morse & Rachel Weinberg

Detroit Hives is a short documentary about an urban bee farm in East Detroit run by Tim Paule and Nicole Lindsey, a young couple working to bring diversity to the field of beekeeping and create opportunities for young Detroit natives to overcome adversity. Detroit ranks fourth in the United States f

There's Something in the Water

FILM United States, United Kingdom 2018
Rory Waudby-Tolley

"There's two kinds of lakes in the South: them that's got Giant Salvinia and them that's about to have Giant Salvinia." Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas, but its delicate eco-system is threatened by a seemingly unstoppable invasive species of floating fern: Giant Salvinia. There's Someth

Remixing Madagascar

FILM Madagascar, United States 2018
Drew Fulton

Remixing Madagascar follows Ben Mirin on his exploration of Madagascar's wildlife, music, and conservation. Ben set out to explore the island and record the sounds of the country's unique lemurs, birds, and other animals. Utilizing these recordings, Mirin transforms the voices of nature, along with

Waste Land

FILM United Kingdom, Brazil 2010
Lucy Walker

Located just outside Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, Brazil, is the world's largest garbage landfill. Modern artist Vik Muniz works with the so-called catadores, the men and women who pick through the refuse, to create art out of recycled materials. Muniz selects six of the garbage pickers to pose

Silent Forests

FILM United States, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville 2019
Mariah Wilson

SILENT FORESTS is an intimate, character-driven portrait of conservationists and activists who are fighting against all odds to stop forest elephant poaching in Africa's Congo Basin region. After a study revealed that more than half the central African forest elephant population has been lost to poa

Extinction

FILM United Kingdom 2020
Jack Cooper Stimpson

In the midst of a city-wide protest, a group of climate activists (Emma Thompson, Rakhee Thakrar, Tom Glynn-Carney, Gary Beadle & Francis Magee) meet with a senior conservative MP (Nicholas Rowe & Charlotte Hamblin) to discuss their demands. The seas are rising, the world is ending, but life continu

Solar For All

FILM United States 2020
Michael Skinner Jon Michael Shink

The District's Solar for All program is one of the most progressive solar mandates in the United States, with a goal of providing 100,000 low- to moderate-income families with lower energy costs through solar. Solar For All explores how the District is using innovation and equitable access to local,

The Age of Stupid

FILM World 2009
Franny Armstrong

It's the year 2055 and the world has been ravaged by climate change. London is underwater, Sydney is on fire and nuclear war has turned India into a wasteland. An archivist looks back at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change. From the director of

Colors of Change

FILM Greenland, USA 2018
Jenny Nichols

Experience Greenland through the eyes of Artist Zaria Forman, Nasa scientist, John Sonntag and Inuit Elder Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq "Uncle." Each character represents different ways we as humans internalize information. Heart, Mind and Spirit. Zaria travels back to Greenland to find inspiration for he

K2 and the Invisible Footmen

FILM USA, Pakistan 2015
iara lee

Located on the border between Pakistan and China, K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. For many climbers, it is an even greater prize than Everest, with limited routes, a steeper ascent, and a harder push to its summit. Nicknamed the 'Savage Mountain,' K2's peak juts unprotected into the atmo