About
As the longest running program of its kind in the region, the UNCG Sustainability Film & Discussion Series continues to lend voice to environmental, sustainability, and climate issues affecting our community and the world. Join us each month for a new documentary film and discussion. Free.
For information on becoming a sponsor, contact Sarah Dorsey at sbdorsey@uncg.edu.
Previous Films
Breath of Life
Reinventing Power: America’s Renewable Energy Boom
Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees
Little Yellow Boots
Behold the Earth
Chasing Coral
The Day the Sun Fell
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction
In Pursuit of Silence
Climate Stories NC
Catching the Sun
Can You Dig This?
Merchants of Doubt
Racing to Zero
Landfill Harmonic
This Changes Everything
Annual International Sustainability Shorts Film Competition
An annual short film competition held during the Spring semester that addresses the elements of UNCG’s definition of sustainability: social equity, the environment, the economy, and aesthetics. Cash prizes of $200, $150, and $100 are awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Download the Call for Submissions.
Judges
T'Shari White, our sustainability expert, received her Bachelor's in Environmental Studies in 2014 from UNC Greensboro. She received here Master's at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry and is currently a 3rd year Ph.D. student in UNCG"s Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Department. Her research interests focus on environmental justice, diversity and inclusion, and Black American environmental history.
Jean Michel Rolland, our film expert, is a long time musician and painter. He brings together his two passions - the sound and the image - in digital arts since 2010. Through video artworks, generative art, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, he questions the temporality, a genuine fourth dimension inherent to moving image, as well as the duality between his two favorite mediums, the sound and the visual. Learn more on his website.
Past Winners
First Prize: Trees and Ice by Gerald Habrath
Second Prize: Woodpecker by Rihards Vitols
Third Prize: History Repeats by Erik Hynynen
Audience Award: Terroir by Dawn Westlake
First Prize: Locally Unwanted Land Usage by Kate Balsley
Second Prize (tied): EVO-OVE by Jacopo Martinoni & Pillar of Cloud (oil petals) by Brit Bunkl
First Prize: From on High by Dawn Westlake
Second Prize: Ecology Notes by Wu Siou Ming
Third Prize: Shizen? Natural by Christin Bolewski
First Prize (tied): Are You Sleeping & The Primitive Fire
Third Prize: Planto Un Árbol (When I Plant a Tree)
First Prize: Big Willow by Jared Katsiane
Second Prize: Hand Picked by Casey Toth
Third Prize: Solar at Southern by Michelle Lotker
