District 15
Director:
Anjali Nayar
Trans Pecos
Director:
Nicol Ragland
The Messengers
Director: Dominic Gill
Producer: Nadia Gill
A Fisher’s Right to Know
Director: John Haley
Organization: Coosa Riverkeeper
Arctic Summer
Directors: Daniel Fradin, Kyle Rosenbluth
Organization: Tuk Youth Center
Barriers to Bridges
Director: Robin Bean Crane
Organization: Alabama Audubon
Guardians of the River
Director: Shane Anderson
Organization: North Fork Studios
The Last Horns of Africa
Director: Garth de Bruno Austin
Organization: Care For Wild
Percy Vs Goliath
Director: Clark Johnson
Organization: Human Kind for Farmers
Youth V Gov
Director: Christi Cooper
Organization: Our Children’s Trust
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
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
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