“Green” awareness will be displayed prominently on the big screen when 150 diverse films from 40 countries are featured at the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival, which kicks off on Tuesday, March 15 and runs through Sunday, March 27. The Warner Theatre (513 13th Street)) will host a free, Pre-Festival Screening on Wednesday, March 9, followed by a Festival Launch Party in the Warner Building Atrium (1299 Pennsylvania Avenue) on Thursday, March 10.
Once again, the Festival will explore the critical relationship between energy and the environment and feature 52 filmmakers and 94 special guests. Documentary, narrative, animated, archival, experimental, and children’s films will dominate. Most showings will include post-screening discussions and are free.
The special Pre-Festival Screening at the Warner Theatre will begin at 10:00 am and showcase Bag It, a film that documents the global production, use and disposal of plastic bags and other plastics and their impact on a wide range of species, lands, waterways and oceans. No reservations are required.
The Festival Launch Party takes place from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm and includes contemporary arts, dance, music, an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction. Tickets are $20 per person. To purchase tickets in advance and for a full listing of auction items and launch party updates, visit www.dcenviornmentalfilmfest.org/launchparty.
In addition to the Warner Building, Festival screenings will be spread across 60 local venues, including several in Downtown. They include: the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1200 New York Avenue); E Street Cinema (555 11th Street); Embassy of Canada (501 Pennsylvania Avenue); Goethe-Institut (812 7th Street); Inter-American Development Bank (1300 New York Avenue); Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G Street); National Academy of Sciences (500 5th Street); National Archives (700 Pennsylvania Avenue); National Building Museum (401 F Street); National Museum of Women in the Arts (1250 New York Avenue); National Portrait Gallery (8th and F Streets); and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1300 Pennsylvania Avenue).
More information about the Festival is available at www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org, by email at info@envirofilmfest.org or by calling 202.342.2564.