The Green Screen Environmental Film Festival is set to return with a series of free, outdoor, community film events from Thursday to Saturday featuring a slate of feature length documentaries and short films.
According to a statement, on Thursday the festival presents the full-length documentary UNCIVILIZED (71 min) at Noir Coffee Lab, St. Augustine from 6:30p.m. It tells the story of the real-world human impacts of Category 5 Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica follows filmmaker Michael Lees as he battles with the elements for survival while in the mountains of Dominica.
On Friday from 6:30pm, the series moves to Rootsyardd, Scallywag Bay, Chaguaramas for the feature documentary; Death By A Thousand Cuts (83 min). The film’s core narrative revolves around the murder of a Dominican park ranger caught up in cross-border intrigues related to illegal deforestation and charcoal production on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.
On Saturday, the series closes at Rootsyardd at 6:30pm with another feature documentary – Songs of Redemption (78 min), which takes us inside a difficult human environment – Kingston Jamaica’s penitentiary.