In its milestone fifth year, One Earth Film Festival will present four inspiring films—“Saving My Tomorrow,” “This Changes Everything,” “Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective,” and “A Farmer’s Road”—on March 5-6 in three venues around Lake County. In addition to illuminating the environmental topics of the day, the festival creates wide-ranging opportunities for dialogue and action.

The Clean Power Lake County Campaign and its lead partner, the Sierra Club Woods and Wetlands Group, are among the festival’s supporting organizations.

The Lake County films are part of the Midwest’s premier environmental film festival, which will feature 37 films in Chicago, Oak Park, River Forest, Evanston, Wilmette, and Lake and DuPage counties.

As the festival matures, planners continue to seek fresh approaches to reach new audiences. In the months leading up to this year’s festival, volunteers have worked closely with community partners in Chicago neighborhoods and surrounding towns, expanding opportunities to hold screenings in schools, churches, libraries, theaters and even a greenhouse, a brewery and a bike shop—the places where people learn, live, work, pray and play.

“One Earth Film Festival is committed to bringing its programs to more people, from Lincoln Park to Hyde Park, from West Town to Washington Heights, from Pilsen and the South Side, to Grayslake and Elmhurst,” said festival director Ana Garcia Doyle. “We believe the stories about our environment are universal and urgent but also personal and local. By screening films near where people live and work, we emphasize the values that drive this festival. We also reduce travel to the festival, which saves time and resources.”

March 5, 3 p.m.: One Earth Film Festival: “Saving My Tomorrow” (family film), Prairie Crossing Charter School, 1531 Jones Point Road, Grayslake, Illinois.

March 5, 7 p.m.: One Earth Film Festival: “This Changes Everything,” College of Lake County, Auditorium, Building C, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake, Illinois.

March 6, 1 p.m.: One Earth Film Festival: “Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective,” College of Lake County, Auditorium, Building C, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake, Illinois.

March 6, 4 p.m.: One Earth Film Festival: “A Farmer’s Road,” Montessori School of Lake Forest, 13700 W. Laurel Drive, Lake Forest, Illinois.

The film showings in Lake County are free and open to the public. A $5 donation per film is appreciated. More information, trailers and tickets are available here (greencommunityconnections.org/2016-one-earth-film-fest-in-lake-county/). Information on the full festival is available at oneearthfilmfest.org.