Watch Evocative Environmental Films and Meet Their Filmmakers at the 2023 Live Chesapeake Film Festival

True to its name and location, the Chesapeake Film Festival (CFF) is committed to screening and discussing environmental documentaries germane to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

The 2023 LIVE Festival (Sept. 30–Oct. 1) includes A Passion for Oysters by Tom Horton, Dave Harp and Sandy Cannon-Brown and WindShipped by Jon Bowermaster. These awardwinning filmmakers will introduce their films and join in a panel discussion after the screenings.

Oysters are nothing much to look at. Yet the passion for this humble shellfish has inspired shooting wars, piracy, social and environmental conflict and libraries of legislation for more than two centuries. Why? In A Passion for Oysters, Horton suggests the answer may lie in the Choptank, the largest river on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Within a few dozen square miles of its lower sections where it meets the Chesapeake, the Choptank contains all the pieces of the oyster puzzle.

Writer Horton, photographer Harp and fi lmmaker Cannon-Brown are well known to CFF attendees. Several of their documentaries have premiered at the Festival, includ- ing Beautiful Swimmers Revisited, High Tide in Dorchester, An Island out of Time and Water’s Way.

To reduce shipping’s impact on the environment, some companies are turning to renewable energy. Bowermaster’s fi lm introduces us to the 64-foot schooner Apollonia, a sailing vessel that has been delivering goods up and down the Hudson River for 65 years without using fossil fuels. WindShipped is an ode to a time when there were 1,200 such boats on the river each day.

Bowermaster, the founder of Ocean 8 Films and One Ocean Me- dia Foundation, makes fi lms about climate at home in the Hudson Valley and around the world. His podcast, “The Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster,” has recorded more than 150 episodes with environmental activists, community leaders and friends from his vast Rolodex of travels.

Also included in this year’s environmental live presentation will be Flights of Fancy, a new short fi lm by CFF board member Irene Magafan about the elusive monarch butterfly. The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall, a fi lm by veteran documentarian Judy Hallet, will be shown at the Ebenezer Theater on Sun., Oct. 1.

Following the screenings on Opening Night, Dr. Ryan Conrath, a professor of fi lm at Salisbury University, will moderate a panel discussion with the fi lmmakers about the art of documentary fi lmmaking and its contribution to environmental stewardship.

A VIP reception precedes the environmental block of fi lms on Sat., Sept. 30. VIP tickets admit the holder to the reception and all the fi lms in the LIVE FESTIVAL. VIP tickets, along with tickets to the individual screenings, go on sale later this summer.

For more information, visit chesapeakefilmfestival.com or contact Executive Director Nancy Tabor at 443-955-9144.

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