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One Earth Film Festival comes to Waubonsee Aurora campus March 5

Waubonsee Community College will present a screening of the film, "Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman," as part of the seventh annual One Earth Film Festival at 7 p.m. Monday, March 5, at the Aurora campus.

The film addresses the values and challenges that rural and urban people both face and what can be done to solve shared problems. The film is about heartland conservation heroes who feed the world and steward the land and water.

Narrated by journalist and author Tom Brokaw and directed by Oscar nominee Susan Froemke and John Hoffman, both Emmy Award winners, the film debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

The One Earth Film Festival is considered the "premier film festival," which showcases films for a better understanding of climate change, sustainability, and encourages involvement through post-film discussions to find solutions.

The Conservation Foundation sponsors this screening along with the Fox River Ecosystem Partnership, Kane/DuPage Soil & Water Conservation District, DuPage County Farm Bureau, Sierra Club, Campton Township Parks and Open Space, Fox River Study Group, Clean Water for Kane, Friends of the Fox River, Seven Generations Ahead, and corporate sponsor Hey and Associates Inc.

This screening is free, but a $7 donation per ticket is suggested which will go to the One Earth Film Festival. Reserve tickets at Eventbrite online. For more information on the film, go to foxriverecosystem.org/film.htm.

The film will be shown at the Waubonsee Aurora campus at 18 S. River St., in the Multipurpose Room, first floor. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the Sustainability Resource Fair showcasing the film's sponsors, with the film screening beginning at 7 p.m.

With more than 4,000 members, The Conservation Foundation is one of the region's oldest and largest not-for-profit land and watershed conservation organizations. Since it was founded in 1972, TCF has helped preserve more than 35,000 acres of open space, restored and cleaned miles of rivers and streams, and educated thousands of kids by engaging them in nature and the outdoors.

The foundation's mission is to improve the health of our communities by preserving and restoring natural areas and open space, protecting rivers and watersheds, and promoting stewardship of our environment.

Work is focused in DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will counties to preserve and restore nature in your neighborhood. Find out more at theconservationfoundation.org.

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