Turning Environmental Awareness Into Action Through Films and Emerging Media
THE LOVE BUGS
$3000
Director:
Allison Otto, Maria Clinton
MOSSVILLE: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL
$2000
Director:
Alexander John Glustrom
THE GREAT GREEN WALL
$2000
Director:
Jared P. Scott
AKASHINGA: THE BRAVE ONES
$2000
Director:
Maria Willhelm
CURRENT SEA
$2000
Director:
Christopher Smith
ADAPTATION
$1500
Director:
Alizé Carrère
RAISING KHAN
$1500
Director:
Melissa Lesh
FERRYMAN AT THE WALL, NOBODY DIES IN LONGYEARBYEN, THE RIVER IS ME
$1000
Director: David Freid
EarthXR returns to inspire audiences to explore the heart and soul of nature through audiovisual journeys across the globe and beyond.
With our most diverse global lineup to date, EarthXR highlights the adventurers and change-makers healing the planet and solving the greatest environmental challenges—from The Grand Canyon to The Amazon.
Immerse yourself with indigenous communities using ancient knowledge to protect the world’s greatest biodiversity, NASA astronauts monitoring climate from space, and scientists creating resilient future cities and using AI to protect rainforests.
Join the rescue teams on the frontlines protecting endangered species – walk with ocelots and pangolins, swim with manatees and gather with gorillas.
See the world from the depths of the sea, the tallest trees and the edges of outer space – all through AI, immersive art, sonic journeys, augmented, mixed and virtual reality.
An eco-star-studded evening of elegance that will celebrate progress, hope, innovation and a global shift toward a more sustainable future for all. Proceeds from this event will go towards year-round educational activities and environmental awareness.
Presented by EarthxYouth and Creative Visions
for You and Your School or Organization.
Youth Filmmakers Ages 10 to 22 are eligible.
Open for Submissions - September 7, 2020
Early Bird Prize Drawing Eligibility - October 1, 2020
Film Submission for Topic 1 - October 15, 2020
Peoples’ Choice Awards Voting Starts - October 15, 2020
Film Submission for Topic 2 - December 1, 2020
Most Motivated Award Winner: Lake Highlands High School
Most Motivated Runner Up: Brighter Horizons Academy
EarthxYouth Reports is a video series produced by EarthxFilm for the virtual EarthxFilm Festival (April 22-27, 2020) in celebration of the 50th anniversary Earth Day. EarthxYouth Anchors (ages 10-22) had the opportunity to interview environmental experts, climate activists, and planet heroes through Zoom. Planet911 Reporters (ages 10-22) submitted short videos showcasing various environmental issues impacting their community and were included in the virtual EarthxFilm Festival showcase. Environmental experts had the opportunity to be interviewed and to share their knowledge with our EarthxYouth Anchors.
Some of our reports include interviews with youth activists like Taegen Yardley and youth from One Up Action, Earth Guardians, March For Science, Zero Hour, The Story of Plastic Filmmaker Deia Schosberg and Perfect World Foundation Co-Founder Lars Jacobsson.
EarthxFilm offers internships to high school students in summer and year-round to college students. Internships follow the school semester and college students must earn college credit. High School students receive volunteer service hours. To find out about internship opportunities at EarthxFilm, please take a look at the description for the most appropriate internship for you and apply below.
College Internships High School Internships EarthxFilm Internship Applications
In 2018 EarthxFilm handed out cash prizes totaling $37,000 to winning filmmakers with a portion of those funds going directly to the environmental organizations and efforts that the films themselves explored or profiled.
What’s the best way to prepare for a disaster? In today’s era of mega-storms, raging wildfires and record-breaking floods, that question is on the minds of many. In a film adapted from Eric Kinenberg’s book HEAT WAVE: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, director Judith A. Helfand takes viewers on a journey from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave to the extreme weather and the politics of disaster that define today’s modern era, posing the question: What if a zip code was just a number and not a life-or-death sentence?
THE CLIMATE
STORY LAB
$4000
Directors:
Patricia Finnerman
Jeff Orlowski
UNIONTOWN
$3000
Director:
Fraser Jones
SEA OF SHADOWS
$2000
Director:
Richard Ladkani
Award Beneficiary
Elephant Action League
Andrea Crosta
GHOST FLEET
$2000
Directors:
Shannon Service
Jeffrey Waldron
Award Beneficiary
Labor Rights Promotion Network
Patima Tungpuchayakul
WILDLAND
$1000
Director:
Alex Jablonski
THE RIVER AND THE WALL
$1000
Director:
Ben Masters
WATSON
$1000
Director:
Lesley Chilcott
THE ROAD TO THE PHOTO ARK
$1000
Director:
Josie Swantek Heitz
KIFARU
Director:
David Hamdbridge
DETROIT HIVES
Director:
Palmer Morse
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Director:
Rory WT
THE RIVER AND THE WALL
$1000
Director:
Ben Masters
WATSON
$1000
Director:
Lesley Chilcott
THE ROAD TO THE PHOTO ARK
$1000
Director:
Josie Swantek Heitz
KIFARU
Director:
David Hamdbridge
DETROIT HIVES
Director:
Palmer Morse
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Director:
Rory WT
When photojournalist Pete Mcbride and author Kevin Fedarko set out to hike the entire length of the Grand Canyon, they learn the hard way why only a handful of humans have pulled off the feat.
Beneath the vast blue expanse of the ocean, marine life depend on sound for survival, prosperity and communication. And collectively, sea animals create a vast symphony that fills the deep blue each day.
There are free-range chickens and then, there is Tungrus, a type of rooster that roams around an Indian apartment causing chaos and crapping indiscriminately.
Tigerland, an elegiac homage to tigers, weaves together two stories of tiger conservation. The first took place first half a century ago in the jungles of India, the second is unfolding today in Russia’s Far East.
There is no one in the environmental movement like Captain Paul Watson and Watson smartly and deftly tells his singular story.
Efforts to preserve our waterways.
In 2018 EarthxFilm handed out cash prizes totaling $37,000 to winning filmmakers with a portion of those funds going directly to the environmental organizations and efforts that the films themselves explored or profiled.
Canadian filmmaker, writer and educator Chanda Chevannes is passionate about social change. Her hopeful documentary, UNFRACTURED, follows biologist and mother Sandra Steingraber as she reinvents herself as an outspoken activist and throws herself into an environmental war that many believe is unwinnable. It’s about fighting for something you believe in with your whole heart.
BIRD OF PREY
$3000
Director:
Eric Liner
PERMAFROST NOW
$2500
Director:
Stash Wislocki
CHASING THE THUNDER
$2500
Co-Director:
Marc Levin
CHASING THE THUNDER
$2500
Co-Director:
Mark Benjamin
ALBATROSS
Director:
Chris Jordan
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
$2500
Director:
Matthew Testa
GROUNDED
$2500
Director:
Gabrielle Piamonte
THE LAST HONEY HUNTER
$2000
Director:
Ben Knight
THE CURVE OF TIME
$3000
Director:
Jordan Manley
DITCH THE VAN
$2000
Director:
Mallory Cunningham
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