One Earth Film Festival hopes environmental films will move you to action

One Earth Film Festival hopes environmental films will move you to action
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One Earth Film Festival hopes environmental films will move you to action
Courtesy One Earth Film Festival duncan1890/istock.

One Earth Film Festival hopes environmental films will move you to action

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The One Earth Film Festival features films about the most pressing environmental concerns of our time and highlights the work of students in third grade through college and above as part of the Young Filmmakers Contest.

Reset learns more about the event from the founding director of that program and a former participant in the Young Filmmakers Contest.

GUESTS: Sue Crothers, founding director of One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest

Anna Lee Ackerman, honorable mention winner of the 2021 Young Filmmakers Contest

Karen Weigert, Reset sustainability contributor; director of Loyola University’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility; former chief sustainability officer, City of Chicago