Inundation District Film Screening and Q&A with Director

Inundation District – an award-winning documentary – explores the implications of Boston’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district. The film will be screened on April 1 (7-9 p.m.) at First Parish Church in Weston, located at 349 Boston Post Rd. MetroWest Climate Solutions is cohosting the screening.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with with David Abel, one of the film’s directors. Abel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers climate change for The Boston Globe. He is also a professor of the practice at Boston University. 

In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the U.S., called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: the Inundation District.

The 79-minute film won Best Conservation Film at the Mystic Film Festival as well as the Monadnock International Film Festival's Jonathan Daniels Award, which is given to films that "fuse social and/or political awareness with artistic excellence and encompasses Jonathan Daniels courage by telling stories of hope, redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit."

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