Celebrate Earth Day with a beach cleanup followed by a free screening of The Hottest August, presented by the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy (JBRPC), Rockaway Film Festival, and Rockaway Bay Coastal Association.

5-7 PM : Cleanup at Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary.

Join millions of people around the world for Earth Day and help remove debris from this important wetland! The Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary is an important natural area in Jamaica Bay, it’s salt marshes provide habitat for local wildlife and migratory birds and help clean our waterways.

8-10 PM : THE HOTTEST AUGUST by Brett Story. 2019. 94 min.

Arverne Cinema ︱Beach 72nd St, Arverne, NY 11692

A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. It’s a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the future look like from where we are standing? And what if we are not all standing in the same place? The Hottest August offers a mirror onto a society on the verge of catastrophe, registering the anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.

Preceded by:

GREYWATER by Daniel Lombroso. 2022. 15 min.

A filmmaker sets out to investigate a poaching ring and discovers a tangle of environmental-justice issues in the New York City waterway.

Post-screening discussion with Greywater director Daniel Lombroso.

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