Future Weather
Sloan Foundation Film
Release Date
2012
Film Synopsis
When her single mom runs off to California, Laudurée, a passionate environmentalist, clings to her rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment.
Laudurée (Perla Haney-Jardine) is a 13-year-old loner, passionate about nature and obsessed with ecological disaster. Greta (Amy Madigan), her grandmother, is a fiery nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Laudurée is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom, she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures and leap into the unknown.
Possible Topics
- The science of climate change
- The role of female mentors in science
Past Programs
2013
SIFF Cinema Uptown, Seattle, WA
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA
The Tampa Theatre, Tampa, FL
Provincetown Film Festival / Waters Edge Cinema, Provincetown, MA
2015
The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY
2016
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2017
Film Streams, Omaha, NE
2018
Midwest Theater, Scottsbluff, NE
a/perture cinema, Winston-Salem, NC