Film on sustainability living solutions screens at Maumee Film Fest
MAUMEE – Fresh off its NYC screening, Saving Walden’s World will be featured at the Maumee Film Festival today at 1:30 p.m.
The documentary film is one of more than 50 long and short films featured in a two-day film frenzy this weekend at the Maumee Indoor Theater.
As the United Nations Summit for the Future wraps up with a signed global pact on sustainability, peace, gender equality and youth engagement, Saving Walden’s World offers powerful, underreported solutions aligned with these goals.
About the Film: Saving Walden’s World, directed by Jim Merkel, delves into sustainable living solutions that are meeting and exceeding the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, well ahead of the 2030 timeline.
The film brings to light inspiring stories from Kerala, Cuba and Slovenia – societies offering universal access to education, healthcare and women’s rights, presenting an achievable model of sustainability that resonates across borders.
The journey follows Merkel, a former arms dealer who embarks on a life-altering mission after realizing his work harms the very people he now seeks to help.
With a focus on real-world solutions, Saving Walden’s World captures the essence of global cooperation, grassroots action and human-scaled development in the fight against climate change.
About the author:
In 1989, Merkel left his military engineering career, dedicating his life to peacemaking and addressing the climate crisis. By 2015, as a father, he felt an urgent need to act.
“I could feel a tsunami barreling towards my son’s future,” Merkel recalls. So, he picked up a camera and began filming his six-year-old son’s world, starting an eight-year project that would take him across the globe.
Touring Without Fossil Fuel: In line with the film’s sustainability message, Merkel has committed to a low-carbon tour, traveling by sailboat along the Maine coast and by electric vehicle across the U.S. He will be in attendance at the Maumee Film Festival for a post-screening Q&A, inviting the audience to join in a dialogue on actionable sustainability practices.
Now touring by electric vehicle, Merkel brings his film from Maine to Ohio and beyond, heading next to the Iris Global Health Film Festival in Boulder.
