Climate Journalism on Screen series at BAMPFA
February 7 – 22, 2026
Curated by Professor Jason Spingarn-Koff and Professor Jennifer Redfearn
More information and tickets here.

February 7, 3:30 pm
Series launch of “Climate Journalism on Screen”
Following the screening of “Teenage Wasteland,” Professor Jason Spingarn-Koff will be onstage in conversation with the filmmakers.

February 21, noon
Climate Journalism on Screen screening: “The Glacier Wedding” by Amin Muhammad (’25) and Thomas Sawano (’25). Professor Jennifer Redfearn will join the filmmakers on stage in conversation following the screenings.

February 22, 1 pm
Climate Journalism on Screen series: “All the Walls Came Down” by Ondi Timoner. Professor Jason Spingarn-Koff, executive producer of the film, will talk with Timoner and score composer Morgan Doctor following the screening.

Following the success of last winter’s Climate Journalism on Screen series at BAMPFA, a new installment running February 7–22, 2026 continues the exploration of how contemporary filmmakers address the myriad issues around climate change. It features new subjects, environments, and documentary techniques, presented in feature, mid-length, and short film form curated with Jason Spingarn-Koff, Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at Berkeley Journalism, and Jennifer Redfearn, Director of the Documentary Program.

Jason Spingarn-Koff and Jennifer Redfearn

As temperatures rise and weather events become more extreme, the urgent need for numerous, specific forms of environmental stewardship grows. This issue is global, but the localized impact demands immediate solutions that are more discreet and tailored for different ecosystems. Access to clean water may mean fighting industrial negligence (“Teenage Wasteland”) directed by a Cal alum Jesse Moss (’93) and unchecked development (“The Tempest of Neptun”), or drawing on traditional modes of survival (“Qotzuñi: People of the Lake,” “The Glacier Wedding”). Wildfires in both urban and rural settings are the focus of two stylistically distinct films—the raw and electric “All the Walls Came Down” and the sensorially immersive “Only on Earth”.

Also screening in a new digital restoration fifty years after its release, Frederick Wiseman’s “Meat” captures a transformational moment in the history of industrialized animal agriculture. The development of a revolutionary, scalable assembly-line process dramatically increased the world’s appetite for beef that is more cost-effective, through a process that is more resource draining.

Each screening will be accompanied by a post-screening discussion, some with the filmmakers, some drawing from the expertise of UC Berkeley faculty and researchers. Jason Spingarn-Koff will be onstage in conversation with the “Teenage Wasteland” filmmakers Saturday, Feb 7 after the screening.

Amin Muhammad (’25) and Thomas Sawano (’25) filming their thesis documentary in the remote mountains of Pakistan, sharing meals with shepherds, and capturing the beauty of the extraordinary landscape. Their film explores how communities build “ice stupas”—towering, artificial glaciers—to store irrigation water as climate change causes natural glaciers to retreat.

Included in the series is the thesis film “The Glacier Wedding” by Amin Muhammad (’25) and Thomas Sawano (’25). Filmed in the northeastern mountains of Pakistan, “The Glacier Wedding” follows a group of researchers aiding a small farming community to revive the “Glacier Wedding”—an ancient practice used to seed a new glacier—as rising temperatures threaten traditional ways of life. Professor Jennifer Redfearn will join them onstage in conversation Saturday, Feb 21 at 1 PM.