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Capturing Complexity in Environmental Filmmaking

Watch our Films That Move recorded event: Capturing Complexity in Environmental Filmmaking featuring Impossible Town directors, Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris, former West Virginia State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad, Professor of Environmental Ethics Cara Greene, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Coordinator Lisa Trakis.

Nov 10, 2024

We’d like to thank everyone who joined our October Films That Move special virtual event: Capturing Complexity in Environmental Storytelling featuring Impossible Town directors, Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris, former West Virginia State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad, Professor of Environmental Ethics Cara Greene, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Coordinator Lisa Trakis.

Our panelists discussed working with rural Appalachian communities, mobilizing local communities, and Impossible Town, a film that chronicles Dr. Amjad’s audacious plan to relocate a southern WV community that has been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. If you did not get a chance to tune in live, you can watch the full session below.