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Call2Action

You’ve been moved?
Now get moving!

Have you left a film fired up and wondered what you can do? Engage with filmmakers, presenters and fellow film lovers to enjoy the afterglow of the film experience. Learn what motivated the filmmakers and how that intertwines with the co-presenters’ missions. Learn about actions you can take to make a difference.

ALL Call2Action discussions are FREE and open to the public!

TalkBacks will be held at or near the film venues.

Talkbacks

Participate in discussion and panels with the co-presenters below, directly following the films. Learn what you can do
to make a difference!

Friday March 1, 2024

10:00 AM @ Grace Commons
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Wilding

A long-awaited film of Isabella Tree’s best-selling book, Wilding, which has been translated into 8 languages and won many major world literary prizes.

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10:30AM @ Century Boulder
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan

Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism. This film is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?

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2:30 PM @ Grace Commons
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Arctic Ascent With Alex Honnold

Famed Free Solo climber Alex Honnold and “rock” star Hazel Findlay — battling loose rock, bitter cold and sudden storms — climb one of the tallest unclimbed sea cliffs in the world in Greenland to research a key climate change bellwether for our entire planet.

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5:00 PM @ Grace Commons
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Adventure Shorts 1 - Keepers of the Land

One small First Nation on BC’s West Coast is taking big steps to claim rightful power over its forests, rivers and shores in a land still rich with fish, bears, old-growth trees and kelp forests, by reviving their stories and the laws within them. But after immense loss and with ever-dwindling resources, will the Kitasoo Xai’xais people be able to assert their laws in time to protect what they have left?

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Saturday March 2, 2024

10:00 AM @ Grace Commons
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Rhino Man

We follow Anton Mzimba, the passionate, incorruptible head ranger of the Timbavati in South Africa, and legendary trainer Ruben Dekock, legendary trainer, as they protect endangered rhinos and train a group of hopeful ranger candidates competing for one of the most rigorous and dangerous jobs on the planet.

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10:00am @ Boulder High Auditorium

Co-presented by CoPIRG

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Food Inc. 2

In a hard-hitting sequel to their influential, Oscar-nominated film, Food, Inc., Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo once again drill into the root cause of the unsustainability of our food supply. Food, Inc. 2 comes “back for seconds” to reveal how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only to increasing profits. Seeking solutions, the film introduces innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists, and prominent legislators such as U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these companies head-on and fighting tocreate a more sustainable future.

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3:00 PM @ Boulder High Auditorium

Co-presented by madeLife

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Tehachapi

Famed French muralist JR heads to the ultraviolent Tehachapi Supermax California Prison, where he asks a group of 40 inmates — most of them lifers — to help him install a huge photo collage on the prison yard. By personally telling their stories on JR’s interactive website, many are surprised to restore long-broken relationships with their families and become more hopeful about their lives. Questioning the limits of the US carceral system, Tehachapi is a rare, illuminating and moving documentary, one that shows how art can be a decisive means to reintegration and rehabilitation.

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5:15 PM @ Boulder High Auditorium
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Pick of the Litter

Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they’re born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind. Cameras follow these pups through an intense 2-year odyssey. The stakes are high, and not every dog can make the cut: Only the best of the best, the pick of the litter.

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Sunday March 3, 2024

1:00 PM @ Grace Commons

Co-presented by Race Across America

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No Legs. All Heart.

``We are disabled in things we can't do...but there is no shortage of things that any of us can do.” - André Kajlich

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6:00 PM @ Grace Commons

Co-presented by Intrsxtn Surf

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Wade in the Water

According to artifacts and early European sailor accounts, Africans have been surfing for over a thousand years, from Senegal to Angola. Then why do we picture surfers as people of Northern European descent, whose ancestors never surfed?

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Thank You to Our 2024 C2A Sponsors
Thank You to Our 2024 C2A Sponsors