Two young Innu women take up the old roads of the past to revive the identity of their Nation; a tribute to the Elders, the territory and the Innu people.

Our Way

Two young Innu women take up the old roads of the past to revive the identity of their Nation.

Forty years ago, the South Yuba River Citizens League began caring for the South Yuba River by advocating for dam removal and gaining Wild and Scenic protection. Today, their work encompasses the entire Yuba River watershed – from the Sierra crest to the valley floor. As the organization looks towards the next forty years, community members reflect on the future of their work in the face of climate change and protecting the river for future generations. Posed as a love letter to the river and the community that surrounds it, Yuba is the Heart considers what it means to love and be loved by a river.

Yuba is the Heart

A community member, a scientist, and a Nisenan tribal member reflect on forty years of the South Yuba River Citizens League and consider what it means to love and be loved by a river.

In two prisons in the Pacific Northwest, incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch videos of sunset-soaked beaches, wildflowers, and forests on a loop. Blue Room is a meditation on the human condition in prison and outside of it—exploring trauma, confinement, and the wilderness.

Blue Room

In two US prisons, incarcerated men and women watch nature videos on loop.

After the devastating 2011 tsunami, Yasuo Takamatsu confronts his grief in the same ocean that stole his wife. "nowhere to go but everywhere" explores the delicate and precarious relationship between humans and nature.

nowhere to go but everywhere

A grieving husband searches for his missing wife in the ocean.

Everything changed after Katrina. Many fled the destruction but Rev. Tyronne Edwards of Phoenix, LA, led the effort to rebuild the town his family has lived in for five generations. After a lifetime of community organizing - climate activism and inspiring future generations to protect their home from future storm surge has become Tyronne’s latest calling.

The Mud on Their Hands

For Rev. Tyronne Edwards, Hurricane Katrina changed his worldview. Climate activism is his new path for helping his community thrive.

Hasta la última gota follows the fight of those working to change a national charter that has privatized Chile’s vast natural water supply. Following an uprising in 2019 that drew millions of protestors across the country, and against the background of a 15-year drought that has left over half of the country in an official water emergency, a popularly elected body has been tasked with rewriting the constitution from scratch.

Hasta la última gota

Chileans fight to include water rights in a new constitution

Rockies Repeat grapples with the cultural impacts of climate change in the Canadian Rockies. The film follows a team of artists as they trek into the mountains to reinterpret the work of early Banff painter, Catharine Whyte a century later. Their journey is a heartbreaking meditation on a shifting sense of place in a rapidly changing climate.

Rockies Repeat

A team of artists race to capture a disappearing landscape in the Canadian Rockies.

Co-Presented by the Southern Documentary Fund Brenda Hampton was born first of ten to a family in rural Alabama. Her mother taught her to think critically and always fight for justice, so she left for Boston to become an investigator. When her mother fell ill, she returned to Alabama to donate her left kidney. Eventually Brenda’s remaining kidney began to fail and triggered her realization of a larger problem. With her expertise and passion for justice, she identified the source of massive environmental contamination in Alabama. Her years of work have led to a permanent water solution for her community. Her efforts have even pushed international progress including a policy change by the largest fast-food company in the world: McDonalds.

Angel of Alabama

Brenda Hampton, a seasoned investigator, uncovers decades of pollution within her hometown and snaps into action.

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