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Claiming Connections

2023 • United States • 12 min • Nina Ignaczak

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

Grassroots efforts create opportunities for Detroit’s Black community to connect with the great outdoors.

Forty Gallons: A Visit to the Detroit Sugarbush

2021 • USA • 5 min • Nina Ignaczak

Family Friendly

Getting Black and brown Detroiters to fall in love with nature is a mission and passion for Antonio Rafael, who works with groups like the Detroit Indigenous People’s Alliance, Black to the Land, and the National Wildlife Federation to provide opportunities for them to connect with the outdoors.
Selected short for Freep Film Festival 2022.
First Place for videography from the Detroit Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists 2022.
Official Selection, Freep Film Festival 2022
Produced by Reel Clever Films + Planet Detroit

Troubled Water

2023 • USA • 71 min • Davis Huber

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, First Time Filmmaker, Representative in Attendance, Staff Pick

Troubled Water is an exhilarating adventure, conservation film that beckons viewers to follow along on a transformative journey down the stunning coast of Lake Michigan. As the journey unfolds, the film unveils the significance of the Line 5 pipeline issue, the dire need for collective action and the historic precedent that this movement would establish. If successfully shutdown, it would become the first active pipeline in US history to be terminated before it ruptures.