Green Screen is back, and this time, it's all about the Cli­mate Change Film Tour.

The an­nu­al En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Se­ries, now in its third year, runs from Oc­to­ber 31 to No­vem­ber 13, with more lo­cal movies and a fo­cus on lo­cal is­sues.

With the fo­cus on cli­mate change, lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, the main mes­sage of this year's se­lec­tion of crit­i­cal­ly ac­claimed movies is "see­ing is be­liev­ing."

Green Screen kicks off on Oc­to­ber 31 with a fundrais­ing cock­tail re­cep­tion at Dig­i­cel IMAX, Port-of-Spain, and the screen­ing of Chas­ing Ice, a doc­u­men­tary that dra­mat­i­cal­ly shows the ef­fects of cli­mate change on glac­i­ers through spec­tac­u­lar time-lapse im­ages.

The se­ries will con­tin­ue with some eight fea­ture films, in­clud­ing five lo­cal ones, high­light­ing var­i­ous en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues, such as Noth­ing Like Choco­late, Burn­ing in the Sun, A Fierce Green Fire and Bit­ter Seeds. Lo­cal films in­clude Earth Wa­ter Woman, and The Amerindi­ans, as well as A Sea Change.

Sus­tain T&T, the or­gan­i­sa­tion that pro­duces Green Screen, made the film A Sea Change ear­li­er this year with the sup­port of the UNDP'S GEF SGP Pro­gram. The doc­u­men­tary fo­cus­es on the ef­fects of cli­mate change on the lives and liveli­hoods of res­i­dents of Diego Mar­tin, Ma­yaro and To­co.

Screen­ings, free to the pub­lic, will take place at the Na­tion­al Mu­se­um, at Medul­la Art Gallery and two venues at UWI, St Au­gus­tine: the Film Pro­gramme Stu­dio on Car­mody Road, and the In­sti­tute of Crit­i­cal Think­ing. There will be ad­di­tion­al spe­cial screen­ings for school groups.

Green Screen's spon­sors in­clude the Ger­man Em­bassy Port-of-Spain and the T&T Guardian news­pa­per. Part­ners in­clude Medul­la Art Gallery, the trinidad + to­ba­go film fes­ti­val, the Glob­al En­vi­ron­ment Fund Small Grants Pro­gram–UNDP, Drink! Lounge & Bistro and Dig­i­cel IMAX.

For fur­ther up­dates and in­for­ma­tion, like on face­book Sus­tain T&T–Sus­tain­able Liv­ing In Trinidad and To­ba­go at face­book.com/Sus­tainTT or call 385-1158.

Sched­ule

Oc­to­ber 31

Dig­i­cel IMAX, One Wood­brook Place

6 pm

Green Screen Ben­e­fit Wine and Cheese Launch

Chas­ing Ice–75 mins/PG-13

The Last Reef–40 mins/GA in 3D Cour­tesy Dig­i­cel IMAX

9 pm

Launch Af­ter Par­ty

Drink! Lounge & Bistro, Roberts St, Wood­brook

No­vem­ber 5

Na­tion­al Mu­se­um and Art Gallery, Fred­er­ick St, POS

12.30 pm

Burn­ing in the Sun–82 mins/ GA

3.30 pm

A Fierce Green Fire–101 mins/NR

No­vem­ber 6

Na­tion­al Mu­se­um and Art Gallery,

Fred­er­ick St, POS

12.30 pm

A Sea Change–36 mins/GA

Earth Wa­ter Woman

–22 mins/GA

3.30 pm

GE Short Pro­gram–15 mins/GA

Dirt! The Movie–86 mins/GA

No­vem­ber 8

In­sti­tute of Crit­i­cal Think­ing,

UWI, St Au­gus­tine

2 pm

Dirt! The Movie–86 mins/GA

4 pm

A Sea Change–36 mins/GA

Bio­philic De­sign–60 mins/GA with Q&A

6.15 pm

A Fierce Green Fire–101 mins/PG

No­vem­ber 9

Na­tion­al Mu­se­um and Art Gallery, Fred­er­ick St, POS

10.30 am

Dirt! The Movie - 86 mins/GA

LO­CAL FILM SHOW­CASE

1 pm

GE Shorts–15 mins/GA

Flood­print–20 mins/GA

The Amerindi­ans–40 mins/GA

3 pm

Sto­ry of Stuff–21 mins/GA

A Sea Change–36 mins/GA

Earth Wa­ter Woman–22 mins/GA.

Noth­ing Like Choco­late (63 mins). The film tells the com­pelling sto­ries of the late an­ar­chist choco­late-mak­er, Mott Green, founder of the Grena­da Choco­late Com­pa­ny Co-op­er­a­tive and in­de­pen­dent co­coa farmer, whose tiny fac­to­ry turns out lus­cious cre­ations that are or­gan­ic and eth­i­cal.

Bio­philic De­sign: The Ar­chi­tec­ture of Life (60 mins). Dis­cov­er green build­ings that con­nect peo­ple and na­ture, hos­pi­tals where pa­tients heal faster, schools where chil­dren's test scores are high­er, of­fices where work­ers are more pro­duc­tive, and fam­i­lies thrive.

Burn­ing In the Sun (82 mins). Charis­mat­ic 26-year-old Daniel Demb�l�'s jour­ney to bring elec­tric­i­ty to rur­al com­mu­ni­ties in Mali, 99 per cent of which live with­out pow­er. His busi­ness builds so­lar pan­els from re­cy­cled ma­te­ri­als.

The Amerindi­ans (40 mins). In The Amerindi­ans, Tra­cy Ass­ing ex­am­ines the way the sto­ry of in­dige­nous peo­ple has been record­ed. The struc­ture of the San­ta Rosa Carib Com­mu­ni­ty, its pol­i­tics and be­lief sys­tem are al­so ex­plored as Ass­ing makes a per­son­al ex­plo­ration of her Carib roots.

Chas­ing Ice (75 mins). One man's mis­sion to change the tide of his­to­ry by gath­er­ing un­de­ni­able ev­i­dence of cli­mate change. Us­ing time-lapse cam­eras, his videos com­press years in­to sec­onds and cap­ture an­cient moun­tains of ice in mo­tion as they dis­ap­pear at a breath­tak­ing rate.

A Fierce Green Fire: The Bat­tle for a Liv­ing Plan­et (101 mins). This film is the first big-pic­ture ex­plo­ration of the en­vi­ron­men­tal move­ment–grass­roots and glob­al ac­tivism span­ning 50 years from the ear­ly days of con­ser­va­tion to the lat­est chal­lenge of cli­mate change.

Dirt! The Movie (86 mins). An in­sight­ful look at the glo­ri­ous–but un­ap­pre­ci­at­ed–ma­te­r­i­al be­neath our feet. The film takes a hu­mor­ous yet sub­stan­tial look in­to the his­to­ry and cur­rent state of the liv­ing or­gan­ic mat­ter that we come from and will lat­er re­turn to, yet most of us know so lit­tle about it.

Bit­ter Seeds (88 mins). Bit­ter Seeds rais­es ques­tions about the hu­man cost of ge­net­i­cal­ly-mod­i­fied agri­cul­ture, fo­cus­ing on In­dia, where every 30 min­utes a farmer kills him­self in de­spair. The film looks at a farmer and his fam­i­ly's strug­gle.

Short Films

Earth, Wa­ter, Woman (22 mins). The sto­ry of the roots of the Fondes Aman­des Com­mu­ni­ty Re­for­esta­tion Project in the hills of St Ann's, Trinidad. Found­ed by the charis­mat­ic Rasta­far­i­an woman Ak­i­lah Jaramo­gi, along with her late hus­band Tecumah over 30 years ago, the FACRP is a mod­el for agro forestry in the re­gion.

The Sto­ry of Stuff (21 mins). The Sto­ry of Stuff fi­nal­ly opens the door to a se­ri­ous cul­tur­al di­a­log about the costs of con­sump­tion, in par­tic­u­lar, how this is af­fect­ing our earth's nat­ur­al en­vi­ron­ment.

Flood­print (20 mins). Flood­print high­lights flood dam­age in Trinidad through the sto­ries of a farmer's dam­aged crops, a young boy's near-death ex­pe­ri­ence and a woman's dam­aged home. The film looks at how our own ac­tions shape our cir­cum­stances.

A Sea Change (36 mins). In Diego Mar­tin, Ma­yaro and To­co, res­i­dents, fish­er­men and farm­ers are be­ing af­fect­ed by chang­ing weath­er pat­terns. There is less food to pick, less fish to catch and more flood­ing. The film ex­am­ines the caus­es and what these com­mu­ni­ties are do­ing to adapt.