CUGH-Pulitzer Center Annual Film Festival

Join the Pulitzer Center for a curated series of short films at its CUGH 2023 Conference Film Festival. The films highlight communities around the world facing climate change, displacement, and conflict, and the solutions they are searching for and implementing.

The film festival includes short documentaries featuring migrant communities facing dangerous conditions caused by climate change and those struggling with trauma. Others follow young Indigenous Brazilians fighting to defend their rainforests and Himalayan communities adapting their lifestyles. A conversation with filmmakers and journalists Valerie Plesch, Jessica Marcy, and Will Wintercross follows the festival screening, moderated by Mikaela Schmitt of the Pulitzer Center.

This event is free and open to the public, in addition to conference participants. 

The festival will screen films from the following reports: 

• How Young Indigenous People Are Becoming Rainforest Defenders, Francesc Badia i Dalmases and Pablo Albarenga, El País
• "Climate Change Forces Major Lifestyle Changes High in the Himalayan Mountains," Fred de Sam Lazaro, PBS NewsHour
• After the Fall: Afghan Refugees in America, Valerie Plesch, The San Diego Union-Tribune
• "Broken Land: Confronting Climate Change and Migration in Guatemala," Jessica Marcy and Amelia Tyson
• "Mozambicans Fleeing IS-Affiliated Insurgents Feel Failed by Government, Exploited by Big Business," Neha Wadekar, Ed Ram and Ali Rogin, PBS NewsHour
• "Climate Change Drove Nepali Workers to Qatar To Build the World Cup Stadiums. It Also Made Their Jobs More Dangerous," Aryn Baker, Ed Kashi, Tom Laffay, and Diane Tsai, TIME
• "Ukrainian Children Who Fled To Europe Struggle With Trauma," Will Wintercross and Zeba Warsi, PBS NewsHour