Piermont Film Festival returns June 8 with focus on the environment

The Piermont Film Festival returns Sunday, June 8, with two films dealing with environmental impact. The event is free to the public.

Festival producer Marcia Robins is presenting a feature-length film, “Against the Current - Music and Activism on the Hudson River," and a short film titled “Windows of the Flyway," from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Piermont Public Library, 25 Flywheel Park West, Piermont.

"Against the Current," set alongside a canoe journey with musicians in 2024, is about the role folk music has played in the re-emergence of the Hudson River. 

“Windows of the Flyway” follows bird rescuer Fruzsina Agócs on her mission to save migratory birds from a hidden danger: collisions with glass skyscrapers in New York City. 

"An environmental film can be nature, but an environmental impact film shows a solution to an environmental problem," Robins said. "I feel this is important for the future of our planet."

Following the screenings, starting at 5:30 p.m., Professor Paul Olsen of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, a paleontologist who studies climate change, will be speaking at Bunbury's Coffee Shop, 460 Piermont Ave. Musician Pat Keating will be performing outside Bunbury’s.

Robert Brum is a freelance journalist who writes about the Hudson Valley. Contact him and read his work at robertbrum.com.