SOLIDARITY - "Inundation District" Screening

Local Filmmaker David Abel presents the North Shore premiere of the ground-breaking film "Inundation District" in Melrose on Aug 6th, 6:30 pm The film about climate change and how it is affecting people and places in Boston focuses on the rising tide in Boston's Seaport District.

INUNDATION DISTRICT is a feature-length film (79 minutes) about the implications of the city's decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district on landfill, at sea level.

The Friends of Wakefield’s NEMT Forest, The Urban Biodiversity Project, and the Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church Climate Action Team together host award-winning filmmaker, Boston Globe writer and Boston University Professor of Journalism David Abel for a showing of Inundation District. Q&A will follow.

When: Tuesday, August 6th, 7-9PM, doors open at 6:30PM. Light refreshments will be available afterwards. Where: 70 W. Emerson St, Melrose. Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church

Reserve your tickets (sliding scale donation, pay what you can) at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6358755

Questions? Need information? Contact advocacy@nemtforest.org or (781) 222-3439 Film website: www.inundationdistrict.com Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGyZdx_QDI

Detailed Summary: 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 on landfill, at sea level. 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 United States, 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: Inundation District. The 79-minute film, a production by The Boston Globe, premiered in the fall of 2023 as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival.