Call in the Crèche

2024 • USA • 27 min • Christy Frank and Alex Goetz

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, Making Waves Recipient, Michigan Premiere, Staff Pick

With the goal of banding 100,000 birds, this film follows Tom and Paula Bartlett on their quest throughout northwest Ohio, and the impact they have not only on bird research, but those they meet along the way. 

2024 • USA • 19 min • Lea Rodbarry & Jonathan Mullen

Family Friendly

In the rivers that flow through our neighborhoods lives an unseen but important creature: the freshwater mussel. These mussels perform key ecosystem services, including a remarkable capacity to filter and clean water. Once almost extinct and now struggling to make a comeback in DuPage County’s urban waterways, freshwater mussels need help.

2024 • USA • 5 min • Lynn Melling & Ian Planchon

Family Friendly

Meet The Moosers. Filmed at the 55th Annual North American Moose Conference, held in Grand Portage, Minnesota in May 2023.