Shorts Program

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

From striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay to brook trout in the far reaches of the watershed, this is the story of two seemingly unrelated fish that help us understand the connectivity within our environment.

An autumn leaf from a small girl reminds a sailor of home and he decides to visit.

For the past decade artist Alvaro Enciso has placed more than 900 home-made crosses in the places where over 3000 migrants have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert.

An astronaut returns home from her lunar mission to find that the public is no longer interested in the moon and a film director must alter the movie about her life and focus on the next big thing…Mars.

An animated short film that brings to life the remarkable childhood journey of Dr. Ruth escaping Nazi Germany, as she faced the choices that made her who she is today.

An intervention for a pet turtle named Snowy who has lived an isolated life in the family basement for over a decade with minimal sunlight and no companionship other than that of his primary caretake, Uncle Larry.

At 14 years old, Autumn Peltier, an indigenous youth climate activist, prepares to speak at the United Nations in New York.