Films That Move
Unleash hope, inspire change with our free environmental film series
Join us to experience a free, virtual community screening series brought to you by The Redford Center, a leading US nonprofit dedicated to environmental impact filmmaking, and our larger filmmaker network. We are proud to present an enhanced Redford Center film offering, Films That Move – a free screening series that is packed with inspiring content to move you and your community into action.
Subscribers to The Redford Center’s newsletter can enjoy one to two virtual film screenings per month, available for a week, featuring solutions-based environmental stories from grassroots activists, frontline communities, and talented filmmakers worldwide. Subscribers will also receive timely calls to action and exclusive invitations to in-person film screenings in the Bay Area and across the country, providing opportunities to network, connect with the community, and engage with filmmakers.
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Happening director and star Jamie Redford spent an intense and often funny year trying to come to terms with the mind-bending problem of climate change, and one equally mind-blowing solution: renewable energy. The result is a feature-length film that chronicles Jamie’s exploration into the dawn of America’s clean-energy economy as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier. Filled with humor, animation, compelling characters, groovy music, and some absurd and amazing energy surprises, Happening showcases the people, places, and ideas that reveal a clean energy revolution that is democratic, patriotic, and well underway.
Happening premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in 2017, went on screen in 70 additional festivals worldwide, and received over 2 million views on HBO. The film’s release marked the launch of a long-term campaign to educate and engage the public in creating demand for clean energy technologies as some of the world’s most promising and economically beneficial solutions for a low-carbon future, with over 1,000+ community screenings across all 50 states and in 45 countries.
Learn more about the film’s impact, led by The Redford Center.
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Executive produced and narrated by Robert Redford and directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Decena, Watershed tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River, and offers solutions for the future of the American West.
As the most dammed, diked, and diverted river in the world struggles to support 40 million people, and the peace-keeping agreement known as the Colorado River Compact reaches its limits, ‘Watershed‘ introduces hope.
In Watershed, we meet Jeff Ehlert, a fly-fishing guide in Rocky Mountain National Park; Colorado rancher Dan James; delta restoration worker Edith Santiago; Navajo council member Glojean Todacheene; Rifle, Colorado, mayor Keith Lambert; Los Angeles native Jimmy Lizama, and a group of Outward Bound teens rafting down the Colorado River as they all reflect a compelling new water ethic—one that illuminates how letting go of the ways of old can lead to a path of coexisting with enough for all.
Watershed inspired the formation of the Raise the River coalition, a unique partnership of US and Mexican non-governmental organizations working to restore the Colorado River Delta. To ground yourself in its story and impact, we recommend you read the 2024 Watershed Case Study to accompany your viewing.