Aware Guide - Your Guide to Life Changing Media

Founded in 2006, the PEFF's mission is to use film as a medium to encourage discussion about the environment, raise awareness about our shared environment, and stimulate community action to develop and make more environmentally sustainable choices and create more livable communities.

The Princeton Environmental Film Festival is sponsored by the Princeton Public Library. And we are thrilled that our greater community comes together to make this happen in the long, cold days & nights of winter in New Jersey!

49 million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people for who are struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford.

What is a big corporation capable of in order to protect its brand? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten's experienced this recently. His previous film BANANAS!* (2009) recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company.