DocNights: Landfall

DocNights, the Jefferson Humanities & Health collaboration with Philadelphia Film Society, continues this spring with a programming focusing on environmental justice.

About the Film and Talkback

Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance. While the devastation of María attracted a great deal of media coverage, the world has paid far less attention to the storm that preceded it: a 72-billion-dollar debt crisis crippling Puerto Rico well before the winds and waters hit. Landfall examines the kinship of these two storms—one environmental, the other economic—juxtaposing competing utopian visions of recovery. Featuring intimate encounters with Puerto Ricans as well as the newcomers flooding the island, Landfall reflects on a question of contemporary global relevance: when the world falls apart, who do we become?

Join a dialogue between Lale Namerrow Pastor, Associate Producer and Collaborator of Landfall, and Richard V. Pepino, MSS, MS, Lecturer, Public Health, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University.

View the Film

Landfall is available to view for free through April 1. Participants will receive the link to access the film in the confirmation email upon registering for the talkback.

About DocNights

DocNights is a collaboration between Jefferson and the Philadelphia Film Society that showcases documentaries about diverse issues related to environmental justice.

Co-sponsored by Jefferson Humanities & Health and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

This online event is free and open to Jefferson and public viewers. Please register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link for the virtual talkback.