River Action’s Environmental Film Series continues through February, with three films and discussions remaining in the 2025 the series.
The series is meant to bring inspirational and educational environmental films to the Quad Cities, encouraging grassroots activism for environmental justice and for the care of our planet.
This marks the sixth year that River Action has partnered with community sponsors to bring the series here. This year’s sponsors include: The Sierra Club, Nahant Marsh, Fourth Wall Films, and Partners of Scott County Watersheds.
All films are shown at 3 p.m. on Sundays at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, except “Giants Rising” which will be Sunday, March 2, at The Galvin Arts Center on St. Ambrose University’s campus. Seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early.
The remaining films are:
- Feb. 16: “Shitthropocene” – Visit the Sustainability Lifestyle Student Fair from 1:45-2:45 in the Figge Art Museum Lobby to be hosted by Augustana College’s Sierra Club. The speaker will be the Sustainability Lifestyle Panel.
Patagonia Films presents, The Shitthropocene, a journey from the cellular-level origins of our lack of impulse control to the ways our central nervous systems have been hacked in the name of capitalism. It’s also about how we might begin to save ourselves from ourselves. Plus, there are dancing cave people. (46 minutes)
- Feb. 23: “The Hunt for Planet B” with speaker Black Hawk College’s Clean Sphere Dr. Douglas Davidson, a physics professor.
Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes Webb Space Telescope, “The Hunt for Planet B,” follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars. What begins as a real-time scientific adventure turns into a deep meditation on human longing. (93 minutes)
- March 2: “Giants Rising” at the Galvin Arts Center. Hosted by: St. Ambrose’s Green Life with speaker Lisa Landers, the movie’s producer and director.
Journey into the heart of America’s most iconic forests. “Giants Rising” reveals the secrets and the saga of the coast redwoods – the tallest and among the oldest living beings on Earth. It’s an epic tale that explores the wonders of these silent giants and our dramatic, ever- evolving relationship with them. (80 minutes)
