The 2019 Planet in Focus Fest Forum topics include transportation, climate change, and mass production. Each panel is filled with experts who will share their perspective and answer your questions to further explore the film themes.
In Motherload, a crowdsourced documentary about the cargo bike movement, director Liz Canning celebrates cycling’s myriad benefits, tracing its history as an early tool of feminist liberation and lauding its capacity to help us sustain—and reconnect with—the natural world. Canning reveals how cargo bikes allowed her and her children to lead a healthier, greener lifestyle, while fighting off the blues of an increasingly frantic digital consumer culture. Blending an examination of cycling’s roots within activism, interviews with bicycle innovators from around the globe, and empowering accounts from women who explain that cargo bikes have changed their lives, Motherload demonstrates that a seemingly mundane mode of travel can produce miraculous results.
Preceded by short film Constant Thought
An intimate portrayal of an Iraq War veteran and as he seeks to overcome PTSD via outdoor therapy, by walking the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail.