Lowland Kids + Q&A – Schools Screening

Discovery Film Festival schools enquiry form will be live from Mon 24 August at 10:00: check back here to submit your request.   

Lowland Kids follows the story of the last two teenagers living on the once thriving Isle de Jean Charles, off the coast of Louisiana, their strikingly beautiful ancestral home that is now being swallowed by the sea. Siblings,Howard and Juliette, along with their Uncle Chris are part of the community deemed America’s First Climate Refugees. Along with other indigenous members of their community, they are being offered a new place to call home, as part of the first federally funded mass relocation in the USA. As the family makes the complicated decision to build a new life on higher ground at The New Isle, the power of their bond is tested amidst an environment that is rapidly slipping away from under their feet. 

An intimate, character-driven film about life on the frontlines of climate change, Lowland Kids follows a family over a six-year journey of love, loss, and resilience as they fight to hold onto home – one that has shaped their identity for generations – even as the island slowly erodes into the Gulf of Mexico. With striking cinematography, the film offers us a moving portrait of family, place and belonging through the eyes of the last two teenagers on the island while also reflecting on a growing global crisis.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Viola Marx to discuss how similar extreme weather is impacting Dundee and Angus. 

Viola is a Sustainability and Climate Change Officer at Dundee City Council, where she has spent eight years turning climate policy into action. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Dundee, and she uses what she learned about human behaviour to help individuals, organisations, and entire cities adapt to the climate crisis.