Wild & Scenic Film Festival

In "From Kurlis with Love" we meet Vladimir, a scrappy but aging Russian marine mammal biologist, unexpectedly hitch hikes aboard a boat filled with adventure photographers out of a desperate need to return to his science monitoring stations. His boat, 2 weeks prior, was lost to the explosion of the Raikoke volcano. He is on a mission to help fulfill his quest to understand and protect the Kuril Islands before his age fails him, and so together the team sets out in one of th...e most remote and inaccessible volcanic island chains in the world to help Vladimir. Watch the film as part of the Feb.26 Friends of the Kaw On Tour festival event! #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #WhereActivismGetsInspired #ClimateChange #Kurlis #Aventure

What started as a small group of conservationists in the early ’70s grows into a massive movement that changed the entire course of a community in the film "A Community Conservation Effort" Greenspace Inc. forms community partnerships and carries the torch of preservation on its way to becoming Kentucky’s First Urban Trail Town. See it at the Musconetcong Watershed Association On Tour festival event on Feb. 26... #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #WhereActivismGetsInspired #UrbanTrailTown #Kentucky #Conservation

One part family adventure, one part environmental film, "24 Leeches" is a tribute to a father's best friend and adventure partner, his 10-year-old son. This film documents a family canoe adventure to the Slate Islands of Ontario, Canada and more importantly a way of life. Watch it Feb.26 as part of the Musconetcong Watershed Association On Tour event. #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #WhereActivismGetsInspired

Every year, all five species of salmon return to the Chilkat River and sustain the communities of Haines and Klukwan, but now a modern day gold rush is underway in the mountains above the river’s headwaters. "Rock-Paper-Fish" offers a vivid look into the lives of Alaskans grappling with questions as immense as the place they call home. See it on Feb.21 as part of Missouri River Relief's virtual festival! #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #WhereActivismGetsInspired... #Salmon See more

Something astonishing is happening in Vancouver. Despite exponential growth causing the salmon run to collapse for decades, concerned citizens refused to give up. Rewilding in a city this size is almost completely unique. With a quiet, observing lens, "The Return" explores hidden enclaves of wilderness where tiny smolts shimmer beneath the water’s surface. Their future is now in our hands. Watch it as past of the Feb. 26 On Tour event put on by Musconetcong Watershed Association. #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #WhereActivismGetsInspired

Here's a nice preview of the upcoming Wild & Scenic On Tour event being presented by Midcoast Conservancy at the start of November: https://freepressonline.com//Wild-Scenic-Film-/93/59/71070

Each year Wild & Scenic's Flagship Festival hasn't officially begun until we hear opening remarks from Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council member and spokesperson Shelly Covert. Less than 3 months until we kick off the 19th annual event! #WhereActivismGetsInspired #WildAndScenicFilmFestival photo by Andy Wright

In a world where clean water is everything, "Sustainable Nation" follows three individuals who are doing their part to bring sustainable water solutions to an increasingly thirsty planet, and shows how solving global water issues is not only a matter of life and death, it’s the start of healing the world. #waterislife #sustainablenation #wildandscenicfilmfestival #whereactivismgetsinspired

Tonight: Puyallup Watershed Initiative hosts a live virtual Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Learn more via this preview from The News Tribune: https://www.thenewstribune.com//movi/article246664718.html

"The Man of the Trees" is a portrait of Daniel Balima, a horticulturist from Tenkodogo, a small town in Burkina Faso. Daniel contracted Polio as a child and despite losing the ability to use his legs, followed his father around the family nursery on his hands. I could take two paths: begging or taking my life in hand and devoting myself to work with dignity. Through his 50+ years of and over one million trees sown, he has nurtured a relationship of intimacy and reciprocity with the plants, and shares the abundance of his garden with community members in need. The plants do not see ‘disability’, and in this they remain open to Daniel’s humble offering. #manofthetrees #wildandscenicfilmfestival #whereactivismgetsinspired

SYRCL - The South Yuba River Citizens League's Wild & Scenic Film Festival is a proud community sponsor of The Sierra Fund’s November 12 Headwater Mercury Source Reduction Workshop, which explores projects and strategies to address Mercury Contaminated Sediment in Reservoirs and Mercury Exposure via Fish Consumption in our headwater region. Head over to reclaimingthesierra.org to register for this free, virtual event!

"Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s Watershed Whiteboard Animation" is a 3-minute whiteboard animation from Clouds North Films and Wisconsin Wetlands Association that provides viewers the 411 on how watershed health is critical to wetland health, and thereby our community’s health.

In "The King's Keeper" we meet Prahlad who lives at a place where we work for elephants. Gajraj, a seventy year old tusker who’s name means king of elephants spent fifty years of his life in chains. When Prahlad first saw Gajraj come out of the rescue vehicle and step into the Elephant Conservation and Care Center, Prahlad says I had my heart set on him. #elephants #elephantconservation #conservation #wildandscenicfilmfestival #whereactivismgetsinspired

The Grand Forks Herald previews the upcoming virtual event hosted by University of North Dakota School of Law student organization, the Environmental Law Society. The event takes place on Thursday, with more information available via the link: https://www.grandforksherald.com/calendar #WhereActivismGetsInspired #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #NorthDakota #environmentallaw

In 1971, A.B. LeBlanc (Bay Mills Ojibwe) set a gill net in Pendills Bay on Lake Superior. The Michigan DNR arrested LeBlanc and he was later convicted of fishing commercially without a license and for fishing with an illegal device. "Place of the Pike" is a story highlighting the treaty challenge and struggle for Ojibwe communities to maintain their identity through treaty reserved rights asserted in the signing of the 1836 treaty with the United States. #WSFF2020 #WhereActivismGetsInspired #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #placeofthepike #ojibwe

2020 Official Selection "Green Gone" is an infomercial parody made by Maui youth pokes fun at the overuse of pesticides and herbicides and the psychology used to market them. #WSFF2020 #WhereActivismGetsInspired #WildAndScenicFilmFestival #maui #greengone #pesticides #herbicides

Extreme weather has pushed wandering nomads to bank on camels and their milk as a drought-safe investment with Kenya, now the world’s second largest producer of camel milk after neighboring Somalia. In "From Camel to Cup" we see how camels are highly adapted to climate change, while their milk has been dubbed white gold by food experts who say it could help conquer malnutrition.