Film Session
APHA Film Festival Opening Kick-off Event - Sustainability: Within Our Means, Within Our Reach (Feature Film)
Pamela Luna, DrPH, MST Feature Session Chair, APHA Global Public Helath Film Festival, American Public Health Association, Nicole Martin, MPH, Esq., Feature Session Co-Chair, APHA Global Public Health Film Festival, American Public Health Association, Terry Spahr, Documentary Filmmaker and Executive Producer, Earth Overshoot, Ardmore, PA, Amita Vyas, MHS, PhD, Department of Prevention and Community Health, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, Travis Rieder, PhD, JHU- Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University--Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD and Kate Cho, MHS, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University--Gates Institute for Population and Public Health, Baltimore, MD
APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo (Nov. 2 - Nov. 6)
Film/Video
8 Billion Angels: The effect of our unsustainable global population on human and planetary health
Terry Spahr, Documentary Filmmaker and Executive Producer1, Travis Rieder, PhD2 and Kate Cho, MHS3
(1)Documentary Filmmaker and Executive Producer - 8 Billion Angels, Ardmore, PA, (2)Johns Hopkins University--Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD, (3)Johns Hopkins University--Gates Institute for Population and Public Health, Baltimore, MD
APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo (Nov. 2 - Nov. 6)
Humanity’s demand for resources vastly exceeds nature’s ability to supply them. Food, water, climate and health emergencies are unfolding before our eyes. The highly-anticipated documentary feature, 8 Billion Angels, connects the dots between the size of our global population and the sustainability of our species and the planet. It dispels the misperceptions that technology can save us, reducing consumption is possible, and that the developing world is to blame.
8 Billion Angels weaves together the voices of people around the world as they confront the growing impact of overpopulation on their lives and the planet. The film unflinchingly shows how our skyrocketing numbers are affecting our rivers, oceans, land and air. After exposing the multitude of problems afflicting our planet, many environmental documentaries end. Very few environmental documentaries bother to discuss real, science-based solutions. 8 Billion Angels invests a significant portion of screen time on solutions -- both personal and public policy actions -- that are realistic, proven, and effective.
8 Billion Angels presents the reversal of population growth as a “win-win” proposition, by healing the planet while improving maternal and child health, creating greater food and water security, decreasing poverty, and expanding economic and educational opportunities.
Film/Video
Girl rising: Where are they now? brave girl rising
Amita Vyas, MHS, PhD
The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC
APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo (Nov. 2 - Nov. 6)