INUNDATION DISTRICT
Sunday, July 7th at 2 PM
Followed by an in-person conversation with Filmmaker David Abel
$18 Public | $12 Members
The new film from award-winning, Long Island-born, filmmaker
David Abel. In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, Boston,
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 — on
landfill, at sea level. 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. (USA, 2023, 79 min., color, DCP)
Long Island-born filmmaker David Abel is a Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter who covers environmental issues for The Boston Globe. He
is also a professor of the practice at Boston University. Abel’s work has won
an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard
Foundation, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. His most recent
film, “Entangled,” which was broadcast by PBS’s World Channel, was nominated
for a 2022 Emmy, won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films,
and Best Feature Film at the International Wildlife Film Festival, among other
awards. Abel previously co-directed and produced “Sacred Cod,” which was
broadcast by the Discovery Channel. He also directed and produced two films
about the Boston Marathon bombings, which were broadcast on BBC World News and
Discovery Life. His other films include “Lobster War,” which won “Best New
England Film'' at the Mystic Film Festival, and “Gladesmen: The Last of the
Sawgrass Cowboys,” which won the Miami Film Festival’s Knight Made in Miami
Award. Abel began learning to make films as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.
