Chesapeake Film Festival: Water, Wildlife, and the Will to Act

Chesapeake Film Festival presents:  Water, Wildlife, and the Will to Act featuring three US films: One Bad Crab, Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice and Chesapeake Rhythms. 

One Bad Crab:  This innovative short film documents the fight against the invasive European green crabs that are decimating juvenile shellfish and eelgrass on both coasts of the United States. 38 min. Directed by Sandy Cannon-Brown. 

Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice: In this short documentary viewers are taken into the heart of the battle for water justice. Powerful stories with frontline community activists are interwoven with historical context about landmark regulations that significantly reduced water pollution in the U.S. but failed to serve disadvantaged communities that are hardest hit by today’s climate crisis. 57 min. Directed by Maggie Burnette Stogner.

Chesapeake Rhythms: This film chronicles the essential rhythms of Chesapeake Bay: wind, tides, migrations of tundra swans, Monarch butterflies, shorebirds and eels. These ancient migrations, annual rituals repeated for millennia, weave a tapestry that enriches our lives and oblige Chesapeake dwellers to maintain our hugely important way station in this vaster scheme of comings and goings. The film will convey the beauties and mysteries of the fundamental, elemental Chesapeake. 30 min. Directed by David Harp. 

Following the films, CFF President Irene Magafan will lead a moderated Q&A with Maggie Burnette Stogner and David Harp.

No registration needed.  Free and open to the public. In partnership with Talbot County Free Library.