A film festival for everything environmental
From veggie-oil fire trucks to raising grizzly cubs in northern Siberia, this year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival has a truly remarkable array of films for environmentally minded folk like us. Films of all types, short and long, amateur and professional, animation, documentary, educational and adventure—this festival brings out the best (and the worst) of human existence on planet earth.
Video: the short sponsor clip played at the beginning of festival screenings.
As a national sponsor of Wild & Scenic, Brighter Planet spent a beautiful January weekend in Nevada City, California—a place with great local environmental awareness. The host of the festival, theSouth Yuba River Citizens League, got its start with a small group of citizens working to protect the natural state of their stretch of river back in 1983, and now has become California’s largest single-watershed organization, expanding their programs to include salmon and steelhead habitat restoration, flood control, and water restoration initiatives.
Throughout 2008, Wild & Scenic will make its way to over 80 venues across the US, and there is still time to have the festival come to a city or town near you! The event will bring inspiration, awareness, and action to your community—and remind us all that fighting climate change is just one part (but a very important part) of preserving our planet for generations to come.
Check out www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org for tour info and the 2008 calendar. We hope to see you at one of the venues. Look for our van Bessie and the Brighter Planet Field Team—we might be passing through your town as we travel the US in 2008.