Come Hell or High Water special encore at DCEFF co-presented by Race Forward

Film and panel discussion available March 16, 2023 at 6 pm EDT. You'll have 10 days to start watching and 48 hours to finish watching.

Come Hell or High Water news and events

Read the blog for recent news and resources, including conversations about Turkey Creek among film students and activists in Indonesia, social entrepreneurs at the Sundance/Skoll Stories of Change convening and climate change experts with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Come Hell or High Water traveled to Indonesia in April 2015 with AFS

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Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who moves home to coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Over the course of a decade, Derrick and his neighbors stand up to powerful corporate interests and politicians and face ordeals that include Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster in their struggle for self-determination and environmental justice.

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Come Hell or High Water encore at DCEFF co-presented by Race Forward

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Click here to view Come Hell or High Water encore at DCEFF co-presented by Race Forward. The film and panel become available March 16 at 6 pm EDT. You’ll have 10 days to start watching.  Once you begin, you’ll have 48 hours to finish watching….

Beloved environmental justice champion Rose Johnson died in April 2020

Turkey Creek in the news

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Historic Black community fights military project on Coast land fouled by arsenic, lead Sun Herald, February 8, 2021 “It’s sort of a never-ending struggle. I’ve told my clients as long as the city has this land zoned industrial, they’re going…

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Virtual screenings for Black History Month feature Derrick Evans in conversation

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February 17, 2021 HEINZ HISTORY CENTER – Virtual screening & discussion with Derrick Evans A free, public screening of Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek will be followed by a conversation with protagonist Derrick Evans, Camila Rivera-Tinsley, director of…

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“Come Hell or High Water” Broadcast for 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

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ENCORE BROADCAST APRIL 21, 2020, FOLLOWED BY TWO MONTHS OF FREE STREAMING THROUGH JUNE 30: http://bit.ly/TurkeyCreek On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the WORLD Channel presents a story from the frontlines of the climate justice movement. The film holds urgent…