Chesapeake Film Festival is Live And Virtual October 1 to 10, 2021 the East Coast. This is the watershed. Every drop of rain that falls on 64,000 square miles heads one way, Bayward. And the Chesapeake, which appears so long and broad, is, in context, just a smallish and shallow pool of water on the receiving end of everything 18 million people in six states and the District of Columbia do with the land, for good or ill.” One of the “stars” of Water’s Way is Herbert the Beaver, a representative of a species whose ponds and dams once sponsored a lush mosaic of wetlands throughout the Chesapeake region. The second film on opening night, The Heat is On: Driving Climate Action for People and Nature, focuses on the World Wildlife Fund’s response to climate change. This short documentary
As the lights dim in the grandeur of the historic Avalon Theatre in Easton, a hush falls over the audience. Excitement builds as the first images of the 14th annual Chesapeake Film Festival mark the return of a LIVE Festival October 1 and 2. And what better way to kick off an Eastern Shore Festival than to present the world premiere of the Bay Journal’s latest film, Water’s Way: Thinking Like a Watershed, by local favorites Tom Horton, Dave Harp and CFF’s Vice President for Environmental Programming Sandy Cannon-Brown. As Horton says in the introduction: “Consider water’s way throughout the vast basin of Chesapeake Bay, some 40 rivers and thousands of creeks feeding the great estuary from across nearly a sixth of
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