With a change in format, the Lights, Camera, EARTH! environmental film series returns to the University of Delaware for its fourth season, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Trabant Theatre.

The five films in this year’s series will focus on how communities respond and fight back against environmental threats, ranging from fracking and pipelines, to heavy industries and threats to wildlife.

Rather than screening several films over one weekend, the five films will be shown this year over consecutive weeks, according to the series organizer, Beth Chajes, communications manager for the Delaware Environmental Institute.

“We wanted to make it easier for people who were unable to turn out on a single weekend a year to catch at least one or two of the films,” Chajes said. “We also often had concerns about the weather — snowstorms threatened to cancel our plans each of the past three years.”

All screenings will take place on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the Trabant Theatre and will be followed by a faculty-led discussion. The scheduled films are as follows:

Feb. 22 — Split Estate. Citizens in the path of a drilling boom in the western U.S. discover that they don’t own the rights to mineral resources beneath their land and struggle against the erosion of their dreams, liberties, communities and health. Discussion leader: Jerry Kauffman, School of Public Policy and Administration and director, Delaware Water Resources Center

March 1 — Crude. A ground-level view of an extraordinary legal drama pitting 30,000 indigenous and colonial rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron over widespread soil and water contamination. Discussion leader: Tom Powers, Department of Philosophy and director, Center for Science, Ethics, and Public Policy.

March 8 — Above All Else. One man risks everything to stop the Keystone XL pipeline from crossing his land, and what begins as a stand against corporate encroachment becomes a rallying cry for protesters nationwide. Discussion leader: Abigail Donovan, Department of Art and Design

March 15 — Milking the Rhino. An intimate portrait of rural Africans at the forefront of community-based conservation as their view of the wildlife around them shifts from threat to economic opportunity. Discussion leader: Jon Cox, Department of Art and Design

March 22 — Two Square Miles. Residents of the historic town of Hudson, New York, take sides when a multinational company expresses interest in building a large cement plant near the town. Discussion leader: Victor Perez, Department of Sociology

All films are free and open to the public. The Lights, Camera, EARTH! film series is co-sponsored by the Delaware Environmental Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences Environmental Humanities Program. For more information, visit the film series webpage.