PA IPL Film Festival 2025

Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light inspires and mobilizes people of faith and conscience to take bold and just action on climate change. Through environmental education, sustained advocacy, creation care, and direct actions PA IPL strives to promote stewardship, creation care, and the use of clean, renewable energy. We see climate change as a moral issue, one that demands a response from people of faith. We work to protect the earth’s ecosystems, safeguard the health of all Creation, and ensure sufficient, sustainable energy for all. We have a track record of tangible results: shrinking congregations’ carbon footprints and educating people of faith about the important role they have to play in this challenging issue.

Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light

Join PA IPL for our 2025 Film Festival! We are pleased to offer these films exploring different themes related to our Annual Convening.

Date(s) Screening: October 30th - November 13th Screening type: Asynchronous (watch on your own time) Discussion Group: Thursday, November 13th at 7:00pm Title: The Here Now Project Description: Built out of thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage—no narration, no talking heads—THE HERE NOW PROJECT transforms the ordinary act of shooting a cell phone video into the radical act of bearing witness, capturing both the simultaneous, global nature of climate change itself and the deeply human resilience, resourcefulness, and courage needed to confront it. Synopsis: 2021 was the year climate change came home. From the streets of Brooklyn to the forests of Siberia, a relentless barrage of fires, floods, and storms made devastatingly clear that the extreme weather climate scientists had been predicting for half a century had arrived. Now, in a production of unprecedented scope, Emmy-winning filmmakers Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel chronicle that pivotal year through the eyes of everyday people around the world. At once intimate, epic, immersive, and inspiring, the film is a wake-up call to the world from the world. The message: we’re all in this, together. “An urgent, engrossing and highly effective eco-doc unlike any other.” — Moviepie 75 minutes run time Watch the trailer here: <a href="https://vimeo.com/936511690?fl=pl&amp;fe=sh" title="https://vimeo.com/936511690?fl=pl&amp;fe=sh" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://vimeo.com/936511690?fl=pl&amp;fe=sh</a>

*Please note: This will be an asynchronous screening. You will receive a link to watch the film on October 30th. That link will expire on November 13th. We are unable to extend or renew. You can watch this link with others in your household. You cannot share this link with others. If your faith community would like to screen this film, a separate license is required - reach out to info@paipl.org if you’d like assistance setting up a screening associated with PA IPL.

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Date(s) Screening: November 13th - 27th Screening type: Asynchronous (watch on your own time) Discussion Group: Self led Title: Inhabitants Description: INHABITANTS provides an Indigenous perspectives on environmental stewardship and resilience in a changing world. Synopsis: INHABITANTS: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON RESTORING OUR WORLD follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. As the climate crisis escalates, these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world. "This is a movie about a return to wisdom to help the Earth thrive."- Our Quad Cities | Linda Cook 76 minutes run time Watch trailer here: <a href="https://vimeo.com/644945174?fl=pl&amp;fe=sh" title="https://vimeo.com/644945174?fl=pl&amp;fe=sh" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://vimeo.com/644945174?fl=pl&amp;fe=sh</a>

*Please note: This will be an asynchronous screening. You will receive a link to watch the film on November 13th. That link will expire on November 27th. We are unable to extend or renew. You can watch this link with others in your household. You cannot share this link with others. A discussion guide for self reflection (or a chat with a friend!) can be found here. If your faith community would like to screen this film, a separate license is required - reach out to info@paipl.org if you’d like assistance setting up a screening associated with PA IPL.

Date(s) screening: Thursday, December 4th at 7:00pm Screening type: Live (watch together with others at the above time only) Discussion Group: Briefly after live Title: Family Tree Description: Sustainability is a multi-generational narrative seen and felt most acutely through family stories. This cinema vérité style documentary tells the moving story of two Black family forest owners in North Carolina. While all family forest owners face trials and travails, the most dramatic stories unfolding today are amongst Black family foresters in the South. They face many challenges: lack of credit and capital, barriers to accessing forestry services, and threats to their land ownership from predatory developers using legal loopholes. Via intimate family portraits, listen to an inspiring story of climate action and hear a compelling case for forests to be forests for generations to come. Synopsis: FAMILY TREE tracks the triumphs and struggles historically and in the present day of two Black family forest owners. The Jefferies sisters, Nikki and Natalie, struggle with their estranged father, Sidney, to clear the overgrown thicket of underbrush on their property. Meanwhile, the Williams family cultivates an award-winning tree farm at their aptly named Fourteen Acres. Return visits over the span of North Carolina’s four seasons track the life cycle of the forests — birth, life, death, rebirth — and act as a metaphor for our protagonists’ progress and their family lives. Healthy families equals healthy forests. 97 minutes run time. Watch the trailer here: <a href="https://vimeo.com/1003307670" title="https://vimeo.com/1003307670" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://vimeo.com/1003307670</a>

*Please note: due to streaming requirements, tickets may not be used to host a congregation screening only for individual/household viewing. Please reach out to director@paipl.org if you are interested in bringing this screening to your community!

PA IPL Film Festival 2025

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