Jet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path | Profiles & Perspectives Shorts II | DC Environmental Film Festival

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Profiles & Perspectives Shorts II

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Films in this virtual screening are eligible for audience awards! The voting period has closed. Stay tuned for the results!

Screening includes a pre-recorded filmmaker discussion.

Across borders, humans are raising their voices and speaking out on behalf of their environment, their livelihoods, and their very existence. Bear witness to indigenous leaders and environmental advocates as they examine the impacts of advocacy and activism in their community.

Employs an anonymous hotline to elevate the voices beneath Vermont’s F-35 flight path, the first urban residents to live with one of the US military’s most controversial weapons systems overhead. Tranquil scenes of unassuming neighborhoods near Burlington International Airport are juxtaposed with voicemails of the unheard, those drowned out by the ear-shattering “sound of freedom.” Exploring the relationship between picturesque residential areas and the deafening weapons systems overhead, Jet Line is a poetic portrait of a community plagued by war machines, documenting untenable conditions in a small city once voted one of the best places to live in America.

Year
2021
Runtime
12 minutes
Country
United States

Director
Duane Peterson III, Patrick McCormack

6 films in package

This is the Way We Rise

Follows Native Hawaiian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio as her calling to protect sacred sites reinvigorates her art.

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The Fukumitsu ʻOhana (family) of Hakipuʻu are tossed into a world of complex real estate and judicial proceedings when a large settler-owned corporation destroys their familial burials to make way for continued development plans.

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What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto

Residents of and visitors to the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer logistical advice, philosophical reckonings, and plaintive cries about making "the journey of the dead."

Jet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path

Employs an anonymous hotline to elevate the voices beneath Vermont’s F-35 flight path, the first urban residents to live with one of the US military’s most controversial weapons systems overhead.

Closed captions available

We Have Reached The Moment

Vic Barrett was just 12 years old when Hurricane Sandy devastated neighborhoods in his native New York City. Since then, he has used his voice to combat the climate crisis. His message has traveled far, but perhaps his most important audience remains his own father.

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Profiles & Perspectives Shorts II: Filmmaker Q&A

Featuring filmmakers Ciara Leinaala Lacy, Justyn Ah Chong, Patrick McCormack, Duane Peterson III, and Liz Smith.

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Films in this virtual screening are eligible for audience awards! The voting period has closed. Stay tuned for the results!

Screening includes a pre-recorded filmmaker discussion.

Across borders, humans are raising their voices and speaking out on behalf of their environment, their livelihoods, and their very existence. Bear witness to indigenous leaders and environmental advocates as they examine the impacts of advocacy and activism in their community.

Employs an anonymous hotline to elevate the voices beneath Vermont’s F-35 flight path, the first urban residents to live with one of the US military’s most controversial weapons systems overhead. Tranquil scenes of unassuming neighborhoods near Burlington International Airport are juxtaposed with voicemails of the unheard, those drowned out by the ear-shattering “sound of freedom.” Exploring the relationship between picturesque residential areas and the deafening weapons systems overhead, Jet Line is a poetic portrait of a community plagued by war machines, documenting untenable conditions in a small city once voted one of the best places to live in America.

Year
2021
Runtime
12 minutes
Country
United States

Director
Duane Peterson III, Patrick McCormack