This week volunteer  Ronnie Paul shares how attending the Wild & Scenic Film Festival nine times has changed her life.  After each festival she shifts her lifestyle to become more environmentally responsible. How has the festival changed your life? Share on our Facebook wall. This January, we celebrate the tenth year of the Wild & [...]

As November fades into December, the last weeks leading up to the Wild & Scenic Film Festival are speeding by. Beginning December 1st tickets will be on sale. Weekend passes make a creative and inspiring holiday gift – and weekend passes purchased prior to December 31, 2011 are only $99. Tickets will be available for [...]

Nevada City Council member Reinette Senum writes this week’s blog, describing Nevada City’s efforts to become environmentally responsible. The Nevada City Sustainability Team is working to regain the commons within downtown. One such project is the boardwalk on Commercial Street. One of the biggest advocates of some of the most recent sustainable projects in Nevada [...]

The Occupy Wall Street movement has brought nonviolence disobedience back into the forefront of American consciousness. Because the theme of the 2012 Wild & Scenic Film Festival is “A Decade of Inspiring Activism,” it leads us to question which forms of activism are most successful, and which tactics are needed when? One of our film [...]

From Scotland to Hawaii, from animation to documenting a tree sit; films by young filmmakers represent some of the diversity of films selected for the 2012 Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Both High School and College students approach topics with ingenuity, humor and a sense of wonder. Wild & Scenic encourages these filmmakers with our [...]

Start your 2012 Wild & Scenic Film Festival with our powerful Native American film session presented in partnership with the Tsi Akim Maidu Tribe. This special session will begin at 5pm with music and celebration. The event will include two feature length films, shown at the historic Nevada Theatre on January 13, 2012. John Trudell [...]

In collaboration with Nevada County Arts we are excited to announce that over 45 artists will be exhibiting their work in Nevada City and Grass Valley during the festival from January 13-15 2012. The featured art includes many mediums: sculpture, woodcuts, charcoal etchings, silkscreen prints, cartoons, painting, basket weaving, cartoons and photography. The art on [...]

Marion Stoddart was a young mother who could smell the toxic waste running in the Nashua River from her home. At a point of personal uncertainty, Marion Stoddart found direction in life by taking on the challenge to make the Nashua River swimmable. Fifty years later, we are very excited to announce that activist Marion [...]

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” – Aldo Leopold Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac calls for us to expand our human communities to include as he wrote, [...]

In addition to our Kid Film session on Saturday morning, we are also hosting our School Program Friday morning. This year we have moved the venue to the Del Oro Theatre in Grass Valley, in order to include more of the areas students and allow Grass Valley students to walk to the venue. We are [...]