Drowned Land ​will screen at Bemis Center as part of From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change on Thursday, August 21, 2025.

Drowned Land will screen at the Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival: Sunday, August 17, 2025, at the Poeh Cultural Center.

Drowned Land will screen at the Fort Smith International Film Festival: Saturday, August 9, 2025, at the Ft Smith Convention Center.

Drowned Land, Winner of the 2025 Circle Cinema Film Festival “Best Documentary” Award. Tulsa Premiere, Saturday, July 12, 2025. Circle Cinema.

Drowned Land will screen at the Lumbee Film Festival in Pembroke, NC, on July 5, 2025.

Drowned Land will screen at the Ouray International Film Festival in Ouray, CO, on June 21, 2025.

Drowned Land will screen at the Thin Line Fest on Friday, April 25 in downtown Denton, Texas at the GDAC venue.

8:00pm CDT

After seven years in the making, Colleen Thurston’s DROWNED LAND is premiering at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) at 7pm at the Gala Hispanic Theater.

Featuring a conversation with filmmaker Colleen Thurston (Director) and Melissa Bisagni.

DROWNED LAND is premiering in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 23rd at 6pm at the Violet Crown Cinema.

The Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter and Santa Fe Watershed Commission will partner for a post-screening conversation moderated by filmmaker, scholar, and community engagement specialist Beverly Singer (Santa Clara/Diné).

DROWNED LAND is premiering in Los Angeles on March 23rd at 6pm at the Now Instant Image Hall. Join us for a conversation following the screening with our special guests.

🎤 Featuring:

• Nanobah Becker - moderator

• Kyndall Noah - speaker

• Isaiah Mendoza - speaker

Presented by our partners Women in Film and Owens Valley Indian Water Commission.