Intersection presented by The Sustainability Alliance

Intersection is a two-night celebration of land, human health, wellbeing, and economic sustainability. Join us on night one to walk the green carpet, discover the stories of sustainable businesses, and see the magic come to life on the big screen!

Tickets are available to the public but must register in advance as seating is limited. Click the ticket link for more information about ticket prices and packages for the Bellmon Awards. Tickets for the Forest in a City film screening are free but registration is required, or a $5 ticket is available to join the Intersection Cocktail Hour in the lobby before the free film screening. Free admission to the film thanks to support from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

Intersection Night One: Bellmon Sustainability Awards

The Sustainability Alliance are thrilled to recognize our latest Bellmon Award Winners for their outstanding achievements. Join us for an evening on the green carpet at Circle Cinema to celebrate sustainability successes in this Oscars-style event. Dress to impress and come ready to connect with like-minded individuals and organizations. For night one of Intersection, your ticket includes a reception with delicious food and beverages, short video premiers in the grand theater, popcorn, awards, guest speakers, and more! The event includes a reception in the Circle lobby from 5:30-6:30pm, followed by the awards presentation in-theater from 6:30-8:30pm.

Intersection Night Two: Forest in a City feature film premiere

Join us for a special evening showcase celebrating local environmental stewardship in media featuring the world premiere of Melissa Lukenbaugh's documentary "Forest In A City", an exhibition of local short films and mixer at Circle Cinema in collaboration with The Sustainability Alliance and Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Admission to the cocktail hour is $5, admission to the film is free thanks to support from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Advance registration required for free ticket and cocktail hour, click the ticket link above for more.

Intersection is part of a larger two-day event anchored around the annual Bellmon Awards hosted by The Sustainability Alliance that honors the winners and participants of the Scor3Card program, a sustainability program measuring improvements in resource reduction. The Friday showcase follows the Bellmon Awards as a way to bring together film and ecological efforts within the community.

Night Two Schedule:

Circle Cinema

5:30 - 6:30 pm | Cocktail Hour

Intersection provides space, time and curation for local filmmakers, environmental steward practitioners and Tulsa industries to shake hands and build projects for 2027. This cocktail hour will be designed to make matches between storytellers in Tulsa’s local filmmaking community and industries grappling with environmental challenges as they try to boost economies.

7:00 - 8:30 pm | Forest In A City Premiere (Screening + Panel)

Forest In A City is a rare tale of effective collective action preserving Tulsa’s urban wilderness at Turkey Mountain. The film considers land adaptation, management and actors-in-play when a community takes on commercial development.

Preceded by a showcase of local films focused on land, water, economy, and human health and well-being.

Heirloom Rustic Ales

9:00 - 10:00 pm | Community Win Afterparty

About the Forest In A City Filmmaker

Melissa Lukenbaugh is a photojournalist and documentarian trained in qualitative research methods positioned to bridge the gap between science, policy and public impact. Her work centers on the tension and hopeful innovation between extractivism, adaptation, conservation, and economy in the ultimate service of human health and well-being. She earned her BA from Oklahoma State University in English Literature, her documentary filmmaking credentials from the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and Master’s Degree of International Development with a focus on Global Environmental Change and Adaptation from Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Her documentary career began as a journalist following the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Ethiopia, South Africa, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Thailand over the course of 10 years from its height to the rollout of PEPFAR funds and improved access to antiretroviral treatments in remote areas of each country. Today, her research focus includes economic impacts and community mobilization strategies for South Africa’s “Just Transition” as it decommissions coal-fired power plants to be replaced with renewable energy sources. Melissa Lukenbaugh was awarded a 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

About the Hosts

The Sustainability Alliance mission is to provide education, tools, and connections for collaborative action on environmental stewardship — supporting people, profit, planet. They are committed to the resiliency of our communities, economic strength for Tulsa businesses, and the assurance of healthy land, air, water and people. Team members include Corey Williams, Morgan Fehrle and Jill Maud. The team leads the following initiatives: Score3Card (an online tool designed to assist organizations of all sizes track and enhance their sustainability metrics), First Steps (a program to help community-focused organizations embrace sustainability through simple, achievable measures), Terrascore (an application for individuals to track their sustainability practices)  and Riverlab (a community participative research program introducing nature-based solutions to improve the water quality of the Arkansas River through the Tulsa corridor).

Established in 2015, Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created as a place-based initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) that addresses pressing challenges faced by contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes the arts are critical to advancing cultural citizenship and supports community-invested practitioners who intentionally engage with our city.

As Tulsa’s oldest movie theater, Circle Cinema celebrates creativity, the arts, and filmmakers from around the corner and across the world. We educate, enlighten, and entertain guests 365 days a year through selected features and programs that connect our community to global issues, environments, and cultures. ​ Originally opened in 1928 as a silent movie theater, Circle Cinema now operates as the only nonprofit cinema in the area. Our mission is to use film to foster understanding and appreciation of the diversity of the human experience, creating a sense of community among our viewers.