Showings
The Films
Why Native Plants?
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 6 min
- Director Cecelia Gould
First Time Filmmaker, Student Filmmaker
Native plants improve outcomes for the environment, but are increasingly eliminated in favor of more “typical” garden plants. Learn how to make an impact on your local environment, and potentially yourself, by planting native species.
Restoring Wild Rice in the Lake Winnebago watershed
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 4 min
- Director Bonnie Willison
Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly
Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin’s largest inland lake, used to teem with wild rice. What happened to the rice, and how do we help restore it? An intertribal, interdisciplinary team is blending traditional ecological knowledge and western science to answer these questions.
Organic Network
- Year 2025
- Country USA
- Runtime 13 min
- Director Elena Shepard
Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, Representative in Attendance, Student Filmmaker
_Organic Network _features interviews from urban farmers and experts in Flint, Michigan on the impact of the water crisis, COVID, benefits of local farming, and how the lives of the farmers have changed over the years.
Plant Life
- Year 2026
- Country USA
- Runtime 23 min
- Director Brett Marty and Josh Izenberg
Has Subtitles, Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere, Staff Pick
Plant Life captures Dr. Joanne Chory at a pivotal moment: as her Parkinson’s advances and carbon levels surge, she pursues her most audacious experiment yet. Having revolutionized plant biology once already, she and her team are re-engineering crops to draw down carbon dioxide at planetary scale — a scientific race against time that may determine both her legacy and our future.