EARTHX FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS 2022 PROGRAM
LINEUP FEATURING OVER 75 FILMS
— BEN MASTERS’ FILM DEEP IN THE HEART NARRATED BY 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
Curiosity Joins Festival as Presenting Sponsor
Dallas, TX (April 8, 2022)
– EarthX Film Festival 2022 presented by
Curiosity unveiled its programming lineup today 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 Film Festival will feature a musical act performing before a showcase
screening.
Curiosity, a leading factual entertainment media
company, has joined the festival as the Presenting Sponsor. Curiosity’s
flagship streaming service, Curiosity Stream, delivers thousands of films,
series, and shows on space, history, nature, tech, lifestyle and more, all on
demand, available to watch on all the major streaming devices. They will also
be presenting a screening of the Curiosity original film GOING CIRCULAR, exploring circularity,
an innovative concept that could save our collective future on planet Earth.
“We’re thrilled to present films this year that showcase our amazing
planet and the people dedicated to making a difference. It’s always been our
vision to create a world-class event that celebrates the spirit of Texas and
welcomes global citizens to experience the rich arts culture in Dallas,” said
Michael Fletcher, CEO of EarthX. “We’re pleased to welcome Curiosity as our
Presenting Sponsor. They share our vision in the power of storytelling to
change the world, and we’re grateful for their continued support.”
Curiosity is thrilled to partner with EarthX to bring this incredible
lineup of game-changing films to thousands of festival-goers both in person and
virtually,” said Rob Burk, head of original content for Curiosity. “We know
firsthand to resonate deeply with viewers, films must dive into our past and
present and also explore solutions for the future, and we are proud to support
the EarthX Film Festival mission to empower documentary fans to learn, enjoy,
and take action.”
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.
“Texas has one of the most diverse wildlife and
ecosystems in the country. For Texans, this is a love letter to the diverse and
vibrant state that we call home,” said Ben Masters, filmmaker. “We’re all
interconnected, and it’s only by conserving what we have that we can ensure our
future. I’m proud to bring DEEP IN THE
HEART to the EarthX Film Festival.”
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, includingtwo, 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 REVELATIONS from 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
- To Live Here (sống ở đây), Director Melanie Dang Ho
- Wastewater: The Tale of Two Cities, Director
Sarah Franke
- We Decided to Become Farmers, Director Rob
Herring, Ryan Wirick
- What Remains, Director Paavo Hanninen
- When It Comes from the Earth, Director Katalin
Egely
- When it’s Good it’s Good, Director
Alejandra Vasquez
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
