A Conversation With Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall accepts DCEFF’s 2022 Environmental Champion Award and sits down with DCEFF Board Member and National Geographic’s Director of Special Global Events Gregory McGruder for a discussion of […]

Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic

An animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops. This is an elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that […]

Uprooted

After Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast in August 2021, it took more than 100 lives and cost billions of dollars in damage. To some here, the storm’s coming […]

True North: Sailing to Salvation

Documents a group of distressed war veterans who, feeling alienated from society upon their return from duty, find healing and connection sailing competitively on the Chesapeake Bay.

Seasons

Nevia No is a classically trained performer who runs Bodhitree Farm in Pemberton, New Jersey. Nevia struggles to maintain equilibrium on the farm and provide for her farmhands, mother and […]

Farm Free or Die

Extreme weather events are hitting America’s farmers hard, and with greater frequency than ever before. Combined with the mounting costs of conventional farming methods that require increasingly expensive fossil-based fertilizer, […]

La Voz del Mar: Hope for Hawksbill Turtles

Hawksbill turtles are critically endangered globally, and for many years it was believed they had disappeared from El Salvador. Today, grassroots conservation is delivering renewed hope for hawksbills. Each year, […]

A View From Above

Follows the intimate journey of an astronaut going up into space, guided by metaphors from the life on earth. The film reveals the emotional complexity of the astronaut’s journey and […]

We Feed People

2022 Closing Selection Spotlights renowned chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen’s incredible mission and evolution over 12 years from being a scrappy group of grassroots volunteers to […]

Water’s Way: Thinking Like a Watershed

Millions of beaver ponds and dams once sponsored a lush mosaic of wetlands throughout the Chesapeake region. These slowed and spread and retained water flowing to the Bay from every […]