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The Little Things that Run the World
Wed, Mar 25
|Whitney Center
“Insects are the little things that run the world, and if they disappear, life as we know it will change.” – E.O. Wilson Join Cheshire Pollinator Pathway and Hamden Land Conservation Trust for this FREE screening. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for refreshment. Showtime: 7 p.m.
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:10 PM
Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Dr, Hamden, CT 06517, USA
About the event
Over millennia, humanity has mastered agriculture, raised monumental bridges and temples, walked on the Moon, but do we truly run the world? In this captivating documentary, filmmakers Dru Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis refocus their lens on a far more powerful force: insects. By zooming in on the reality of bees, butterflies, beetles, and their kin—tiny, alien-like architects of life—they reveal how these distant cousins on our evolutionary tree sustain ecosystems and, ultimately, our own survival. As they face unprecedented decline, their fate becomes a stark warning: without them, neither we nor the planet can endure. Even still, there is hope!
Best Documentary (East Lansing Film Festival), Best Feature Film (Poulsbo Film Festival), Best Cinematography (Twelve Lions Film Festival), and the Jen Snyder-Bryceland Award (Lighthouse International Film Festival).
Join Cheshire Pollinator Pathway and the Hamden Land Conservation Trust (and HLCT Pollinator Pathway) for this amazing film.