EFFY Night One: Remembering Place in a Changing Climate
Join us for Night One of EFFY 2026 with the films Been Here Stay Here and Sound Guardians!
Welcome Dinner (7-7:30 pm)
Screenings (7:30-9:30 pm)
Panel (9:30-10 pm)
Sound Guardians
As Jakarta sinks and sea levels rise, Indonesia is moving its capital to Borneo. It’s building a futuristic new city named Nusantara in the middle of a forest, on the traditional land of the indigenous Balik people. Abidin, a Balik elder, is documenting his forest’s soundscape with the help of scientists to preserve ancestral knowledge – before it’s too late.
Been Here Stay Here
Set on Tangier Island - a centuries-old Evangelical fishing community in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay - Been Here Stay Here invites audiences to sit with the lived reality of a community facing the slow erosion of its land, not through spectacle or alarm, but through faith, memory, and daily life. Been Here Stay Here follows the residents who remain: fishermen, pastors, parents, children - bound by deep roots and spiritual language that often runs counter to mainstream environmental discourse. What does it mean to love a place that is slipping away? How might we begin to understand a community not in spite of their beliefs, but through them?