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The 20th Annual Environmental Film Festival is coming to DC on Tuesday, March 13 and running through Sunday, March 25. Several Downtown venues will host screenings, and the Warner Theatre (513 13th Street) will kick off the celebrations with a free, Pre-Festival Screening on Thursday, March 1, followed by a Festival Launch Party in the Warner Building Atrium (1299 Pennsylvania Avenue) on Friday, March 9.
Expect 180 diverse films by 75 filmmakers from 42 countries. Is that green enough for you? Overall, the Festival will explore the critical link between health and the environment and feature documentary, narrative, animated, archival, experimental, and children’s films. A plus: most showings are free and will include post-screening discussions.
Among the standouts: The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, winner of the Festival’s Polly Krakora Award for artistry in film, and Symphony of the Soil, highlighting the soil’s significant as an overlooked protagonist of Earth’s story.
The Pre-Festival Screening will begin at 10:00 am and showcase Cafeteria Man, a film that documents the efforts of parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, chefs, and dozens of creative and motivated students to overhaul the dysfunctional nutritional system at one public school.
The Festival Launch Party, priced at $20 per person, will take place from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm and feature dancing,music, an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, contemporary art, and a silent auction. Purchase tickets in advance and view a full listing of auction items and launch party updates.
In addition to the Warner Building, Festival screenings will be spread across 64 local venues, including the following in Downtown: E Street Cinema (555 11th Street); the Goethe-Institut (812 7th Street); the Inter-American Development Bank (1300 New York Avenue); Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G Street); the 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 e-mail at info@envirofilmfest.org, or by calling 202.342.2564.
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