Join Docs In Progress on Sunday, March 17, 2019 for Docs In The City, held in partnership with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. The theme is environmental documentary.

From 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm at the Eaton DC (1201 K Street, NW Washington DC), we will facilitate a work-in-progress screening of END OF THE LINE: THE WOMEN OF STANDING ROCK by local filmmaker Shannon Kring. The film tells the story of a group of indigenous women willing to risk their lives to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that would desecrate their ancient burial and prayer sites and threaten their land, water, and very existence. In the process, they must face the personal costs of leadership, even as their own lives and identities are transformed in the crucible of one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century. Following the screening of the rough cut, Docs In Progress Executive Director Erica Ginsberg will facilitate a feedback session, featuring feedback both from special guest Judith Helfand and the audience. This is a free screening but tickets are required.

At 7:00 pm, our Program Director Andrea Passafiume will facilitate a Q&A for the DC-area premiere of Helfand's latest film COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE at Landmark's E Street Cinema.This searing yet quirky film investigates the "natural" disasters we're willing to see and prepare for and the "unnatural" ones we're not. Adapted from Eric Klinenberg's groundbreaking book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand uses her signature serious-yet-quirky connect-the-dots style to take audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries -- disaster preparedness. Along the way she forges inextricable links among extreme weather, extreme disparity, and politics, daring to ask: What if a ZIP code were just a routing number, and not a life-or-death sentence? Tickets for this screening are $10.

Tickets for both events are available through the DC Environmental Film Festival's website.