Salem Film Fest – Inundation District

This year at the 17th annual Salem Film Fest, come view the North Shore premiere of the highly-anticipated film INUNDATION DISTRICT, which explores the implications of one 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.

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 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.

View the trailer at vimeo.com/914821392/f3d77bd567. This 11:30am screening at the PEM on Friday, March 22 will be followed by a panel discussion that will include the director, David Abel. Please purchase tickets at salemfilmfest.com

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