Southern Exposure Films World Premiere!

Join Alabama Rivers Alliance and our partners across the state for the FREE public screening of the 2024 Southern Exposure Films on Friday, September 27 at The Altamont School. Don’t miss this eagerly awaited night of storytelling that will inspire, ignite and unite us all in the fight for Alabama’s future! Filmmakers will be in attendance!

Created in six weeks during the summer, the 2024 Southern Exposure films celebrate special people and places in Alabama while exploring complex issues and solutions. In this collection, we uncover the hidden and costly dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ in our rivers and drinking water sources following Riverkeepers as they strive to protect communities—and themselves—from PFAS contamination. We dive underwater to discover a “whole ‘nother living world under there in the seagrass that nobody ever sees”, full of critters and life and we learn what must happen to protect this submerged aquatic vegetation vital to the health of Mobile Bay and the communities and industries that rely on it. We travel across Alabama rediscovering our native plants, meeting passionate plant people along the way who are making changes big and small in hopes of preserving the last vestiges of once vast ecosystems and Alabama’s unprecedented botanical biodiversity. Finally, we meet and celebrate three Alabama women who, out of necessity to protect the people and places they love, answered the call to advocate for their water, land and communities.