In their documentary "Veins in the Gulf," Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana's wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.
S. Leo Chiang documents New Orleans's Vietnamese community's mobilization against a landfill for toxic Katrina debris adjacent to their neighborhood, in "A Village Called Versailles," screening Saturday 5/15 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Sonali Aggarwal champions the music's activist potential in her documentary "Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?" screening Saturday in the Humboldt Park Art Fair Film Festival.