2013 Films

Renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas moves around Nigeria’s capital, Lagos, over a period of two years, talking to people and familiarizing himself with the city in his attempt to understand the nature of rapid urbanization...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Villagers in central China confront a chemical company that is poisoning their land and water in this rare portrait of grassroots activism in contemporary China...

Program includes FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS, I WISH I WENT TO ECUADOR, AMAZONIA, SCAREDY SQUIRREL, & ALL IN THE WORLD

Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, this is a comic account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder, the introduction of cane toads from Hawaii to control the beetles decimating Queensland’s sugar cane crops...

Film and Panel Discussion to Mark World Water Day

Films shown include PERU'S GOLD RUSH: WEALTH AND WOES, GUERRILLA MINING IN GUIANA'S MIDST, THE DARK SIDE OF COLOMBIA'S GOLD RUSH, GHANA: OIL BOOM, FISHING FEARS and THE PENAN OF BORNEO

In October 2011, 39 students from Chicago Public Schools and Doha Independent Schools participated in Qatar Foundation International’s cultural exchange trip to Doha, Qatar, in partnership with Alexandra Cousteau’s Blue Legacy Project. During the trip the students worked together on short multimedia shows that captured their experiences and expressed viewpoints on key issues explored during the exchange...

Explores the passions and influences of this 76-year-old award-winning architect, whose buildings include some of today’s most stunning and innovative architectural structures: the Beijing airport, the Hearst building in New York, the remodeled Reichstag in Berlin and the world’s tallest bridge in Millau, France...

The future of California State Parks is considered within the context of trends that will soon threaten parks everywhere: population growth, decline of native plants and animals, loss of open space and climate change...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Firmly establishing the urgency of the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world this century, this Participant Media documentary illuminates the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system and shows communities already struggling with its ill-effects...

Films shown include THE CAPITAL BUZZ, ALIENS AMONG US, TALKING TRASH IN BALTIMORE, MICROBREWERIES, MAXIMUM SUSTAINABILITY, FROM FRYER TO FUEL and COFFEE IN CRISIS

As a result of the industrialized world’s carbon dioxide emissions, the sea is rising and the Polynesian clans of the Takuu atoll in Papua New Guinea's gardens and homes are threatened by salt water. Three clansmen allow us into their lives as they explain what the creeping tides mean for their way of life...

The work of internationally renowned artist Michele Oka Doner celebrates the beauty and variety of the natural world, including sea life, plants and the human body...

This portrait film of the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson spans four particularly eventful years in the life of the artist, renowned for works that feature elements from nature...