The Films
Weathering the Change: Climate Adaptation at Rush Creek
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 9 min
- Director Ben Albert
Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere, Filmmaker in Attendance
In the face of climate change, Wisconsin conservationists are protecting the plants and wildlife at Rush Creek State Natural Area. Using fire and innovative adaptive techniques, their proactive approach offers a model for building resilience across our natural spaces in an uncertain future. In partnership with the Natural Resources Foundation of WI.
A Wilderness Act
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 12 min
- Director Tom Deschenes and Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano
Filmmaker in Attendance, Michigan Premiere
Indigenous and Western ways of knowing come together through the collaboration of a Anishinaabe scholar and college professor to redefine our understanding of wilderness and argue for the return of fire to our forests.
Flowing Forward
- Year 2023
- Country USA
- Runtime 15 min
- Director Christy Frank, Alex Goetz
Filmmaker in Attendance
Mud-thick boots, cold farmers, an adze chopping holes for tiny trees in a huge field. These are memorable images from a film that follows one recent restoration project of Ohio’s Black Swamp Conservancy to tell the larger story of the history and mission of the Conservancy.
A Seething Underneath: Water Contamination in Wisconsin
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 16 min
- Director Nels Lindquist
Filmmaker in Attendance, World Premiere
A Seething Underneath explores the stories of three Wisconsin communities grappling with the devastating challenges posed by water contamination – from lead in Milwaukee’s drinking water, to nitrate-polluted groundwater in the state’s farm country, to the threats posed by factory farming on the shores of Lake Superior.
Dinosaur Fish
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 23 min
- Director Jason Whalen
Filmmaker in Attendance
The Lake Sturgeon has existed virtually unchanged for more than 130 million years. It survived a meteor impact and outlived the dinosaurs but we’ve found out it couldn’t survive in the face of human development. With only 1 percent remaining in the Great Lakes, conservationists in Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay are working to bring this iconic species back.