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Join us for a film screening followed by Q&A with the Director and Boston Globe Reporter, David Abel.

INUNDATION DISTRICT is an award-winning documentary film about the development of Boston’s “Innovation District” (formerly known as the “Seaport” District, ominously enough). The film explores the implications of the city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district — on landfill, at sea level.

This event is co-hosted by the MetroWest Climate Solutions group.

MetroWest Climate Solutions

Inundation District

Website for INUNDATION DISTRICT

In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast — on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.

The 79-minute film won Best Conservation Film at the Mystic Film Festival as well as the Monadnock International Film Festival’s Jonathan Daniels Award, which is given to films that “fuse social and/or political awareness with artistic excellence and encompasses Jonathan Daniels courage by telling stories of hope, redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit.”