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Time has run out. Leading scientist David Keith has spent the past 30 years researching the controversial planet-cooling technology called solar geoengineering. It’s fast, it’s cheap, he knows for certain that it will work, and he’s ready to start. But as Al Gore put it, solar geoengineering is also “utterly mad.” As this powerful idea moves out of the lab and into a planet in the throes of a climate meltdown, it carries deep uncertainty. Part thriller, part wake-up call, PLAN C FOR CIVILIZATION reveals the hidden world of climate tech — and asks whether or not we can afford to ignore one of the most controversial ideas on Earth. Are some ideas too risky to explore, or is it time to turn to Plan C?
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
April 21, 2026 | Chicago, IL - University of Chicago
Screening + Q&A with Director Ben Kalina and UChicago faculty featured in the film
April 22, 2026 | New York, NY - Columbia University
Screening + Panel hosted by Columbia Business School’s Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change and Columbia Climate School. The panel will feature director Ben Kalina, and professors V. Faye McNeill and Gernot Wagner, in conversation with the Climate School’s MS in Climate Finance student Vincent Sandow-Straesser.
May 2, 2026 | San Rafael, CA - DocLands Documentary Film Festival
Screening + Post-Screening Conversation with Director Ben Kalina
PAST SCREENINGS
April 14, 2026 | Tallahassee, FL - Florida State University
Screening + Q&A with Director Ben Kalina and climate science and technology experts
March 30, 2026 | Princeton, NJ - Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Followed by a post-screening Q&A with Ben Kalina (Director, Plan C for Civilization)
March 26, 2026 | Washington, D.C. - DC Environmental Film Festival
Followed by a conversation with Ben Kalina (Director, Plan C for Civilization), Quentin Scott (Federal Policy Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network), and Marianne Lavelle (DC Bureau Chief, Inside Climate News)
Feb. 11, 2026 | Long Island, NY - Stony Brook University’s Collaborative for the Earth
Screening & Discussion with Ben Kalina (Director, Plan C for Civilization) and Reuben Kline (Stony Brook University Political Science Professor).
November 15 & 20, 2025 | New York City, NY - DOC NYC (World Premiere)
Q&A with Ben Kalina (Director), Jamila Paksima (Producer), and film participants David Keith, Shuchi Talati, Kirsten Anderson, Luke Iseman, and Andrew Song.
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Read more about our World Premiere at DOC NYC 2025
Can Plan C Pick Up Where An Inconvenient Truth Left Off? - Kevin Harrison, SRM360
​Documentary Explores Sci-Fi World of Geoengineering - Chelsea Harvey, CLIMATEWIRE
“Compelling, in the most productive, wonderful way.”
– Davis Guggenheim,
Academy Award Winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth
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