✨Special Screening✨ The Wild Robot
Be one of the first to see The Wild Robot and catch a behind-the-scenes Q&A. Also: meet our Solutions Hub partners, and discover the food & drinks available @ CFF!
Hi all,
CFF is one week away! As a reminder, be sure to get tickets for each screening you want to see—we don’t have all access festival passes for sale this year, so take a look and get tickets now!
Not sure what to watch? Check out our guide here!
We’re thrilled to bring you three major announcements this week:
Catch a 🤖 Special Screening of The Wild Robot with Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and NRDC’s Rewrite the Future.
Meet our nine 🌎 Solutions Hub partners over Stumptown coffee and sustainable snacks.
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✨ Special Announcement!✨
🤖 The Wild Robot: Advance Screening & Behind-the-Scenes Talkback
Where: SVA Theatre, 333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
When: September 22, 2024, 2:00 - 4:30 PM EDT
Be one of the first to see The Wild Robot in theaters at a special advanced screening at the Climate Film Festival on Sept. 22nd.
In an epic journey from DreamWorks Animation, a shipwrecked robot on an uninhabited island bonds with animals and adopts an orphaned gosling.
After the screening, join Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and NRDC for a behind-the-scenes talk with the producer of The Wild Robot, Jeff Hermann, NRDC’s Giulia C.S. Good Stefani, and Meredith Milton, Creative Director, NRDC’s Rewrite the Future.
Tickets are going fast! Be sure to secure your seat before they sell out!
☕️ Coffee Collabs: Climate x Cinema
To bring the conversation out of the theater and into the city, we're pairing up filmmakers and climate professionals for Stumptown coffee as part of a program sponsored by Pique Action. Looking to expand your network or stretch your wings?
Sign up here to share your knowledge and build new friendships.
🌎 Solutions Hub
Join us at the Solutions Hub for conversations, snacks, and Stumptown coffee. This is a lounge area to meet with friends before or after a program and to engage with organizations doing incredible work in the climate space. Stay tuned for more Solutions Hub announcements to come!
Saturday, Sept. 21
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Talk food and sustainability with Rethink Food and Re:Dish in the morning.
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Get the inside track on Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability and dive into culture with the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Spend the afternoon with WE ACT talking about heat justice in NYC and more.
Sunday, Sept. 22
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Catch Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability again if you missed them and talk coastal resiliency with Waterfront Alliance on Sunday morning.
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Grab 1:1 time in the afternoon with Rewiring America to learn how they can help you electrify all aspects of your production, and unpack the moment with the Climate Psychology Alliance.
🥕 Food and Drink
Over the course of the weekend, we’ll have limited complimentary food and drink available for festival attendees at the Solutions Hub and for festival participants at the Filmmaker Lounge.
Enormous thanks to our wonderful in-kind partners:
🍫 Plant-based protein bars from Aloha
🫧 Probiotic sparkling water and kombucha from bear’s fruit
🥣 Sustainable containers and utensils from Eco-pliant
🍵 Tea from Just Ice Tea
🍯 Vegan honey from Mellody
💧 Canned water from Open Water
🍏 Healthy snacks from Precycle
😋 Plant-based charcuterie from Prime Roots
🧀 Vegan cheese from Rebel Cheese
🍽️ Reusable dishware from Re:Dish
🥗 Catering and snacks from Rethink Food
🥛 Plant-based wellness shakes from Remedy Organics
☕️ Coffee from Stumptown Coffee Roasters
🍫 Chocolate from Tony’s Chocolonely
🍷 Wine from Wölffer Estate
⭐️ Filmmaker Lounge
Looking to bring climate to your set or production? Join us in the Filmmaker Lounge to meet other creatives, producers, and industry professionals and to hear from leaders in the field of climate filmmaking and sustainable production.
Panels & Workshops (Free!)
🌊 Telling Human Stories from Climate Frontlines (Sat. 9/21 at 11:00am). Join the visionary filmmaker behind Lowland Kids (2019) for an in-depth conversation about the urgency of climate storytelling.
✍️ Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change (Sat. 9/21 at 3:00pm). Join Good Energy for a one-hour workshop for writers, filmmakers, and industry members to explore how climate can be woven into any story, in any genre.
⚡️ Electrified and Fossil Free Productions (Sat. 9/21 at 4:30pm). Join Rewiring America for a panel on how to approach both on- and offscreen decisions around ditching fossil fuels on screen and on set.
🌅 Inspiring Climate Action: Entertainment’s Many Pathways to Impact (Sat. 9/21 at 6:00pm). Can entertainment help inspire the action we need to address climate change? Join Rare for a panel on the latest research on this topic, and discuss the varied pathways stories can take to make impact in the world.
🎞️ Putting Climate on Both Sides of the Camera (Sun. 9/22 at 11:00am). What can we do when making our next movie, TV series, or social media video to reduce our impact and emissions on set? Join Mari Jo Winkler, EP, True Detective: Night Country; Kati Johnson, EP, Bull; Heidi Kindberg, HBO; Emellie O’Brien, Earth Angel; and Stephanie Dawson, Producer for this must-attend panel.
💸 Crowdfunding to Build Independence (Mon. 9/23 at 12:00pm). Join Seed&Spark for an online workshop on how to have a successful crowdfunding campaign... and career! You’ll learn how to find your audience, structure your crowdfunding campaign, pick the right goal and incentives, and more.
CFF’s 2024 Film Festival is made possible by our wonderful sponsors: the Guardian US, SNØCAP, Universal Pictures, The Carmack Collective Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, CEEZER, Rewiring America, Buffy Redsecker and Alan Chung, Jason and Laurie Jeffay, Seaborne, Earth Angel by TheGreenShot (Sustainability Partner), Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability, Climate Power, Sound Future, Envest, Climate Tech Cities, Pique Action, The Live/Work/Walk Foundation, and Laura Cook
Thanks also to our network of in-kind sponsors who make this festival possible: ALL ARTS (Local Media Partner), Betancourt Group, Edge Auto, Empact.fyi (Impact Partner), Entertainment + Culture Pavilion (Cultural Media Partner), The Everset, The Explorers Club, DCTV, MR. HOSPITALITY, Romanette Legal, Studio Rodrigo and Cinema Rodrigo, Version Tomorrow, and Fernanda Uribe-Horta.