The 2024 edition of our festival was a collaboration between the University of Houston Clear Lake (UHCL) and Alvin Community College (ACC). Our mission is to show films and artwork about ideas, concepts and stories of sustainability and we empower filmmakers and artists working on sustainability-related subjects. This year's special focus was Community Sustainability. Participating pieces were documentary & narrative films, animations, experimental films, video art, still images, sculptures and paintings. We selected just over 60 films from the 200 submissions received. Participating films were both local and from around the world. We also selected just over 30 pieces of physical art, mostly from local, Houston-based artists. Selected films and artwork were first shown at the ACC Gallery form October 1 - 31, with a gallery opening on Oct. 3  from 5:00 - 7:00 PM and a screening of the participating films at the 350-seat ACC Theater on Oct. 25 at 7:00 PM. After that films and physical art pieces were on display at the UHCL Art Gallery from Nov. 7 - Dec. 7 2024, with a screening of selected films at the 500-seat Bayou Theater on Nov. 13, 4:00 PM, followed by a gallery opening at 5:30. All film and video entries were judged by Michael Brims, MFA, Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at the University of Houston Clear Lake, all physical entires were co-curated by Michael Brims and Angela Duran Larson, MFA, Visual Arts Coordinator at Alvin Community College. Please see below for details on both the gallery exhibitions and the theater screenings, including participating films and art pieces as well as screening and exhibition schedules!