Nature For All: Visions of Inclusivity and Sustainability in the Great Outdoors - EFFY 2024

Join EFFY for a Friday full of food, films, and panel discussions! The four films in this panel immerse viewers into complex narratives of human-nature interactions across diverse landscapes. The various narratives showcase the deep interconnection between human and environmental health and the beauties and complexities that arise in this intimate relationship.

FILM DESCRIPTIONS BELOW:

EcoFreeski: Ambassadors of their Land
Ambassadors of their Land" is a documentary that presents contrasting realities of territorial development in two locations in southern Chile, Pucon and Neltume, against a backdrop of breathtaking landscapes featuring volcanoes, rivers, forests, and lakes. The main characters, a group of outdoor athletes, guide the spectator to explore both the amazing activities possible, such as skiing, climbing, biking, and kayaking, and the impacts of unplanned real estate development, which is fragmenting forests, affecting views, and contaminating lakes. Sustainable tourism and outdoor sports emerge as important contributions to prevent these threats, inspiring local communities to lead the conservation of their natural treasures.

Flood of Memory
A historic flood threatens to wash away the landscape at Manzanar, a former prison camp that incarcerated over 10,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Natari
Fisherman, artist, and political activist Ayoub Sehto and his educated son are stranded with their family on the inhospitable island of Kharo Chan in the shrinking and sinking Indus Delta, void of drinking water and fishing opportunities due to climate change, and struggle to migrate to a mainland city for a better life. Natari, literally anchor of the boat in the Sindhi language, tells the story of the potential conflict caused by climate migration and its impact on local communities and families such as that of fisherman and political activist Ayoub Sehto in the Indus Delta region.

The World is Ours
Currently, post pandemic, one in two young people show symptoms of anxiety and depression. The World is ours is a film that gives the opportunity to six Montreal teenage girls to leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition. By presenting their struggles and small victories, the film poetically and luminously embraces their vulnerability, emphasizing in broad strokes the power of female sisterhood and therapeutic intervention by nature.In an intervention cinema approach and seeking to democratize access to the outdoors for marginalized communities, the production of the film took on the responsibility of defraying the costs of the expedition for these six young women.

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