Share the Earth Environmental Film Series

The Share the Earth Environmental Film Series has been taking place monthly in the UWM Union Cinema for almost 20 years. These films speak to a wide range of environmental topics and connect audiences to student organizations, community activists and other experts in Milwaukee who work on these issues.

FALL 2023

Hollow Tree I Wed. September 20, 6PM

Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeplace of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and polluting refineries. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis. Cosponsored by Women’s Resource Center

(Kira Akerman, USA, English, 73 min, 2022, Digital)

Powerlands I Wed. October 25, 6PM

A young Navajo filmmaker travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these women, Ivey Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation. Cosponsored by Women’s Resource Center and Sociocultural Programming

(Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, USA, English, Spanish, Zapotec, Diné, Blaan, Visayan, & Wayuunaki w/ English and Spanish subtitles, 75 min, 2022, Digital)

To the End I November 15, 6PM

Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, To the End captures the emergence of a new generations of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history. The filmmakers follow four exceptional young women – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas – as they grapple with new challenges of leadership and power, and work together to define their generations’ right to a future. Cosponsored by the Women’s Resource Center and College Democrats at UWM

(Rachel Lears, USA, English, 94 min, 2022, Digital)

Beasts of the Southern Wild I Wed. December 13, 6PM

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl, Hushpuppy, exists on the brink of orphanhood. Bouyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural order is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. Cosponsored by Women’s Resource Center

(Benh Zeitlin, USA, English, 93 min, 2012, DCP)