EARTHX FILM FESTIVAL 2022 PROGRAM LINEUP
FEATURES OVER 75 FILMS
— BEN MASTERS’ FILM DEEP IN THE HEART NARRATED BY
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY
WORLD PREMIERING ON OPENING NIGHT AT THE FEST —
Also Screening are Festival Favorites FIRE OF LOVE, WE FEED PEOPLE, and THE TERRITORY
Along with Stories Unique to Texas
EarthX Film Festival 2022 presented by Curiosity unveiled its programming lineup with over 75 feature-length and short films screening during its four-day run May 12-15. This year’s theme, “A Celebration of the Outdoors,” continues the Film Festival‘s mission to highlight films and emerging media that celebrate nature and outdoor adventure stories exploring the environment, conservation, climate change, and science while honoring the heroes working to protect our planet. This year for the first time, the EarthX Film Festival will be held in the Dallas Arts District, providing easy walking for attendees to the five theater venues tapping into the vibrant downtown community and making it an exciting cultural touchstone for the city. Each night of the FilmFestival will feature a musical act performing before a showcase screening.
For more information and tickets, go to: https://earthxfilmfestival.org/ or download the app available on iOS and Android.
OPENING SCREENING
This year’s Film Festival has something for everyone with 24 features and 54 shorts, music, art installations, panel discussions, and more. The festival‘s opening night will be the world premiere of Ben Masters’ film DEEP IN THE HEART, narrated by Academy Award® Winner Matthew McConaughey. The first feature-length wildlife film ever produced about Texas, DEEP IN THE HEART, is a visually stunning celebration of what makes Texas unique — its diverse landscapes and remarkable wildlife behavior that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Filmed over two years, DEEP IN THE HEART showcases Texas’ breathtaking species and wild places, the connectivity of water and wildlife, and recognizes Texas’ conservation importance on a continental scale.
FESTIVAL FAVORITES COMING TO DALLAS
The Festival has programmed several festival darlings in the lineup, including Sara Dosa’s FIRE OF LOVE, WE FEED PEOPLE, directed by Ron Howard, THE TERRITORY (Sundance Audience Award winner), Lucy Walker’s BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE, and Rachel Lears’ TO THE END.
This year’s Festival features a wide range of filmmakers, including award winners Jeff Orlowsky (CHASING ICE), Raj Patel & Zak Piper (THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER), young superstar Lindsey Hagen (CALIFORNIA NATURAL) and several newcomers, including two, second grade brothers making their first film with their father called LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE. The films cover a variety of important topics, from the healing experience for veterans through nature (ERIC AND THE BEES, BASTARDS’ ROAD), to female big wave surfing (BIG VS SMALL), and tiger poaching (TIGRE GENTE). Also screening are popular outdoor culture films REEL ROCK: BLACK ICE, The North Face’s award-winning film LEARNING TO DROWN, SPIRIT OF THE PEAKS from REI and Protect Our Winters, and MOUNTAIN REVELATIONSfrom Protect Our Winters.
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT – UNIQUELY TEXAS STORIES
This year’s festival turns a spotlight on Texas with DEEP IN THE HEART that addresses Texas conservation issues, BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF TEXAS that addresses property rights in energy production, WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD, focusing on oil-drilling communities in West Texas, and REI’s SLIM PICKINS about diversity in outdoor culture.
SHORT FILMS
Many of the Festival’s shorts are associated with well known brands and film companies including Patagonia’s RAISED FROM THE EARTH about living off the land, and THE MONSTER IN OUR CLOSET which focuses on the plastic in our fashion. The Redford Center is presenting two short films on mass transit, COMMUNITY POWER ARIZONA: EN NUESTRXS MANOS (IN OUR HANDS) and COMMUNITY POWER NEVADA: UNIDXS EN ACCION (UNITED IN ACTION).
You can find the entire EarthX Film Festival 2022 line-up here:
FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS
● Bastards’ Road, Director Brian Morrison
● Battle for the Heart of Texas, Director John Brown
● Before They Fall, Director Cam MacArthur
● Big vs Small, Director Minna Dufton
● REEL ROCK: Black Ice, Director Peter Mortimer, Zachary Barr
● Bring Your Own Brigade, Director Lucy Walker
● Chasing Ice, Director Jeff Orlowski
● Coextinction, Director Gloria Pancrazi, Elena Jean
● Deep in the Heart, Director Ben Masters
● Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Director Bill Kroyer
● Fire of Love, Director Sara Dosa
● Godspeed, Los Polacos!, Director Adam Nawrot
● Going Circular, Director Ricard Dale, Nigel Walk
● Inhabitants, Director Costas Boutsikaris, Anna Palmer
● Learning to Drown, Director Ben Knight
● Mountain Revelations, Director Justin Fann
● Newtok, Director Michael Kirby, Andrew Burton
● Spirit of the Peaks, Director Connor Ryan, Tim Kressin
● The Ants and the Grasshopper, Director Raj Patel, Zak Piper
● The Territory, Director Alex Pritz
● Tigre Gente, Director Elizabeth Unger
● To the End, Director Rachel Lears
● We Feed People, Director Ron Howard
● Zero Gravity, Director Thomas Verrette
SHORT FILMS
● 80° North, Director Brandon Holmes
● All Bodies on Bikes, Director Zeppelin Zeerip
● American Scar, Director Daniel Lombroso
● An Eye for Detail, Director Matthew Harmer
● Bad Boy of Bonsai, Director Juan A. Moreno
● Breaking Trail, Director Jesse Roesler
● California Natural, Director Lindsey Hagen
● Camp Yoshi, Director Faith E. Briggs
● Chasing the Sublime, Director Amanda Bluglass
● Community Power Arizona: En Nuestrxs Manos (In Our Hands), Director Pita Juarez
● Community Power Nevada: Unidxs En Acción (United In Action), Director Nico Cadena
● Eric and the Bees, Director Erin Brethauer, Tim Hussin
● Finding Gulo, Director Colin Arisman
● From My Window, Director Frank Pickell
● Humanity Has Not Yet Failed, Director Norma V. Toraya, Jared P. Scott
● I am One of the People, Director Cameron Woodle
● If I Tell Them, Director Oliver Sutro
● Kāhuli, Director Chris Jones
● Life in the Slow Lane, Director Sol de Glanville, Ben de Glanville
● Like a River, Director Jim Aikman
● Listen to the Beat of our Images, Director Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste
● Loon, Director Jason Whalen, Chris Zuker
● Mission Mountain, Director Kody Kohlman, Andrew Bydlon
● Mother of the Sea, Director Nicholas Brown
● Mylo, Director Chris Bukard
● No Soy Oscar, Director Jon Ayon
● Nuisance Bear, Director Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden
● One Star Reviews: National Parks, Director Alex Massey
● Patagonia Provisions: The Ocean Solution Film, Director Darcy Hennessey Turenne
● Raised from the Earth, Director Forest Woodard
● Rebirth of a Reef, Director Shaun Wolfe
● Return to Earth, Director Darcy Wittenburg, Darren McCoullough, Colin Jones
● Rockies Repeat, Director Caroline Hedin
● Slim Pickins, Director Justin Jeffers
● The Captain, Director Gregory Kohs
● The Diamond, Director Caitlyn Greene
● The Endless Wave, Director Tom Attwater
● The Interconnectedness of all Living Things, Director Jenn den Broeder
● The Land of Griffons, Director Riccardo Soriano
● The Last Last Hike, Director Celene Francois
● The Monster in Our Closet, Director Kathryn Bays, Nicole Gormley
● The Seeds We Keep, Director Gabriel E.W. Carter
● The Seeker, Director Lance Edmands
● The Wilderness Within, Director Jason van Bruggen
● They Carry Us With Them: Gabriel Frey, Director Jeremy Seifert
● Thomas Deininger. Trash Artist., Director Gnarly Bay
ABOUT EARTHX FILM FESTIVAL 2022
The 2022 EarthX Film Festival is four days of film, music and interactive environmental programs and events set in the heart of Dallas Arts District, May 12-15. Our mission is to bring awareness of the environmental crisis in order to create sincere action on both an individual and communal scale; to inspire local and global change on how we as humans affect our home planet and our fellow beings. We aim to include Texas, and the Southwest, in the conversation on climate change through compassionate, positive, truthful storytelling.For more information, visit https://earthxfilmfestival.org
ABOUT EARTHX
EarthX convenes the world’s largest environmental expo, conference, film festival, and television network and is a member of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature. Founded in 2011 as Earth Day Dallas by environmentalist and businessman Trammell S. Crow, the Texas-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization promotes environmental awareness and impact through conscious business, nonpartisan collaboration, and community-driven sustainable solutions. In 2019, the April event drew over 177,000 attendees, 2,000 environmental leaders, and 750+ exhibitors. In 2020, the April virtual event drew over 570,000 live-stream views and reached 171 countries. EarthxTV is now available as an OTT platform on streaming TV services, mobile devices, and tablets for balanced, inclusive environmental conversations, programs, emerging media & films. Visit www.EarthX.org or follow us @earthxorg on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
ABOUT CURIOSITY
Curiosity Inc. is the entertainment brand for people who want to know more. The global media company is home to award-winning original and curated factual films, shows and series covering science, nature, history, technology, society, and lifestyle. With approximately 23 million subscribers worldwide and thousands of titles, the company operates the flagship Curiosity Stream SVOD service, available in more than 175 countries worldwide; Curiosity Channel, the linear television channel available via global distribution partners; and Curiosity Studios, which oversees original programming. Curiosity Inc. recently completed the acquisition of One Day University, which provides access to engaging talks and lectures from the best university and college professors in the United States. Curiosity Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CuriosityStream Inc. (Nasdaq: CURI). For more information, visit CuriosityStream.com.