Sunday, Oct 2: Local ​Environmental Group Offers Free Exclusive Screening of "Facing the Surge" at Easttown Library in Berwyn

Environmental documentary, Facing the Surge, to make Pennsylvania premiere in Berwyn with a special screening at Easttown Library and Information Center.

Filmmaker, Diogo Castro Freire, and Citizens' Climate Lobby, have announced the Pennsylvania premiere of Facing the Surge with a special screening on:

Sunday, October 2, 2 pm

Easttown Library & Information Center

720 First Ave, Berwyn, PA 19312

Rising sea levels are already flooding parts of the mid-Atlantic. This exciting new documentary short film depicts the immediate and tangible costs of sea level rise for the people of Norfolk, Virginia - the home of our nation’s largest naval base and thousands of hard-working Americans struggling to adapt to the rising tides and an uncertain future.

But Norfolk is just one place of many where catastrophic flooding events are taking place, often without warning. “I tell people that Norfolk is the ‘canary in the coal mine,’ said one volunteer who helped facilitate one New England screening. “We need to understand that promoting solutions now will help us in the future. If we act today we can avoid having our lives disrupted by the catastrophic flooding that sea level rise can bring.”

Facing the Surge is not a film about loss and inaction. It tells the stories of citizens from across the United States as they step forward to raise awareness and push their government to pursue real solutions as they discuss a little-known solution for staving off climate catastrophe.

Lead filmmaker, Diogo Castro Freire, is traversing the length of the eastern seaboard - from Maine to Florida - this fall as part of an East Coast screening tour with local chapters of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, its coastal tour partner. Their charge is to drive understanding of immediate issues and solutions to rising sea levels caused by climate change. The tour begins in New England on September 9 and ends in the Southeast on November 22.

After the screening, the following panelists will lead discussion about climate change solutions, as well as impacts in our region, and the public can get their questions answered:

•Filmmaker - Diogo Castro Freire

•Citizens' Climate Lobby Congressional Liaison for Chester County - Matt Zencey

•Aquatic Biologist and Associate Director of Pennsylvania Sea Grant - Ann Faulds

View the trailer here

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reserve your spot for the screening

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Citizens' Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change and creating political will for a livable world.