Michigan Tech’s Sustainability Film Series gets set to screen five films in the spring. Next Thursday the Sustainability Film Series kicks off the year with Jane, a 2017 film that shares the life story of renowned primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall.
In February the series will screen Farming While Black. The documentary follows Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, reflecting on the challenges African-American farmers have faced in the United States and the decline in black-owned farms since 1910.
In March a screening of The Invisible Mammal, released in 2025, follows women in conservation science working to solve the challenge of extinction. The feature length documentary highlights the rise in the fungal disease, White Nose Syndrome and recent mass extinction events in North America affecting bats.
Then in April the Michigan Tech Sustainability Film Series will show the episode Shelf Life from the PBS Series Human Footprint, that explores the impact of humanity on the global food system.
Michigan Tech will end the sustainability film series with an important documentary to residents of the Great Lakes with a screening of the J.K. Simmons narrated film The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery. The documentary tells the region’s collective story of sea lamprey entering the Great Lakes, and the invasive species’ impact on fish, particularly lake trout and whitefish.
The Michigan Tech Sustainability Film Series is free to attend. Those interested in learning more about the series or the film schedule in 2026 can find more details here.
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