Celebrate Climate Week through Film!

Greetings!

It is my pleasure to announce the second Projecting, Much? x Urbane Film Screenings event on September 23rd 6:30-9:30 PM. This FREE event is taking place during Climate Week NYC and I could not be more thrilled to be partnering with the Climate Film Fest, and with Grist, a leading environmental news outlet.

We will screen five short films and follow with a conversation featuring two of the directors from the film series.

Address: The Urbane Arts Club, 1016 Beverley Rd, Brooklyn NY

This event is also taking place in the lead up to Artmageddon, a Ditmas Park based arts festival, that will happen on September 28th.

We are grateful to have continued community support from the Flatbush Food Co-op, which will provide some refreshments and information.

RSVP HERE.

Run of Show

Doors at 6:30
Programming begins at 7
Event ends 9:30, but programming should be finished by 9 (Screening, 1 hour; Panel, 1 hour).

The Panel:

Tory Stephens (Moderator) is a storyteller, strategist, and climate justice advocate. At Grist, he co-founded Imagine 2200 and has produced two anthologies of climate fiction, Afterglow and Metamorphosis. He now focuses on publishing climate fiction year-round and building partnerships that connect culture, justice, and climate solutions.

Nello DiGiandomenico (Panelist) is a writer/director from Schenectady, New York who earned his MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2023. His screenplay work has been recognized in the top 15% of the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and as a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival. His AFI thesis film Hot Soda has screened at over 20 festivals internationally, including Chattanooga Film Fest and Dances with Films. His previous shorts Hardy and Happy Little Bluebirds have garnered accolades across three continents. Currently, his screenplay Peeling Paige is a finalist to be adapted into a graphic novel by Kodansha Tokyo.

Rebecca Huang (Panelist) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Her animated short film The Human Fossil (2024) has screened at film festivals worldwide, including the Oscar-qualifying Sitges Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival and New York International Children’s Film Festival. Recently, she’s been working on a prequel graphic novel of the same name, which tells the story of two scientists and their friends living through a climate apocalypse as it unfolds.

Additional Participating Shorts: