"The Lake" Screening (Waterford School)

About this event

Join us at the Waterford School's Heuston Concert Hall for a FREE in-person screening of "The Lake" on October 1st, 2026 at 6:00 PM. Come enjoy the film, connect with Waterford students, faculty, and alumni, and participate in an exclusive behind-the-scenes Q&A with the filmmakers and those leading the efforts to save Great Salt Lake. A special program featuring Waterford students and alumni will proceed the screening. ABOUT THE FILM: The Lake (2026)—winner of the Sundance Film Festival Award for Social Impact—follows key actors across science and policy working to save Great Salt Lake and save their home from an unprecedented environmental catastrophe. Urgency emanates from this sober record that local Utah filmmaker Abby Ellis logs in human history — a chapter of monumental ecological and social consequence unfolding in our shared home. Intertwining the inextricable fates of the Great Salt Lake and the millions of people who live, work, and travel surrounding it, Ellis achieves an existential scope that is both terrifying and motivating, wrought with divinity and doom. ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION: Grow the Flow is a systems change organization working to turn the ongoing collapse of the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere into the first comeback story of its kind. We increase water flow to Great Salt Lake through non-partisan community organizing, independent policy & scientific solutions development, and high-impact venture philanthropy ABOUT OUR PARTNER: Waterford School is Utah’s premier liberal arts, college preparatory private school for students in Preschool through High School. Waterford inspires individuals to pursue lives of meaning and purpose by providing a world-class liberal arts education that stimulates intellect, ignites passion, and shapes character. Cover photo by Chris Carlson