Films A-Z (2020) — One Earth Film Festival

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Overload: America's Toxic Love Story

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Overload: America's Toxic Love Story

Soozie Eastman/2019/68 min/Health & the Environment, People & Culture

Wed., March 11, 6:30 p.m. [W Suburbs]
Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park

POSTPONED
Saturday, March 14, 3 p.m. [North]
Wilmette Theatre, Wilmette
Admission $10

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Soozie Eastman learns that hundreds of synthetic toxins are now found in every baby born in America and the government and chemical corporations are doing little to protect citizens and consumers. With guidance from world-renowned physicians and environmental leaders, interviews with scientists and politicians, and stories of everyday Americans, Soozie uncovers how we got to be so overloaded with chemicals and if there is anything we can do to take control of our exposure.

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Tribes on the Edge

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Tribes on the Edge

Céline Cousteau/2019/78 min/People & Culture, Conservation

VIRTUAL
Thursday, March 12, 6:30 p.m. [North]
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: The Vale do Javari is the second largest Indigenous territory in Brazil and is home to 5,000 Indigenous peoples from 6 tribes as well as the largest population of people living without any contact with the outside world in the entire Amazon, and some say the world. Though the Javari has been designated for the tribes living there, there is looming pressure to increase harmful resource extraction which in other parts of the Amazon has led to environmental degradation. With Hepatitis rates as high as 50-80%, this preventable infectious disease brought in by outsiders is decimating the population and threatening their very survival.

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UseLess: A Documentary on Food & Fashion Waste

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UseLess: A Documentary on Food & Fashion Waste

Rakel Garðarsdóttir & Ágústa M. Ólafsdóttir/2018/55 min/Environmental & Social Justice, People & Culture, Waste & Recycling , Sustainable Food & Agriculture, Conservation

Saturday, March 7, 10 a.m. [North]
Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge
Admission $8

POSTPONED
Saturday, March 14, 11 a.m. [West]
Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: In the documentary "UseLess," the filmmakers try to find out why food and fashion waste has become a pressing social and environmental problem, and what we can do to change it. The documentary is seen through the eyes of a young Icelandic mother who is trying to understand the issues and change her ways. Interviews with experts, designers, activists, and producers shed light on the problem as well as offer many solutions to the audience.