The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, and especially the Festival On Tour, wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for the generosity of our National Partners.  We are proud to announce our partners for the 2012 Festival season: Patagonia, CLIF Bar, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Osprey Packs and Mother Jones.  Our National Partners are truly partners, joining [...]

Many of our films are created by activists who are becoming filmmakers. Some are created by filmmakers becoming activists. It is this utter dedication to a cause that inspires worldwide activism through film. Many national environmental organizations create films, some of which will be screening at our festival. For example, An Ill Wind and Finding [...]

This week we feature a guest blog by Chris Jordan-Bloch, a multimedia producer, photographer and filmmaker for Earthjustice. He believes in the importance and power of visual storytelling, and it is his goal to tell the stories and show the personalities behind the cases and advocacy work of the organization. Two of his films, An Ill [...]

In his 1957 speech, “Facing the Challenge of a New Age”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr wrote, “…we are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.  The new world is a world of geographical togetherness.  This means that no individual or nation can live [...]

Every year filmmakers congregate at Wild & Scenic with other filmmakers, industry professionals, and our audience. What differentiates the Wild & Scenic Film Festival from other film festivals is the common passion for environmental issues that unites the audience, filmmakers, activists and adventurers. It is this connection that makes the Wild & Scenic Film Festival [...]

Louis Helbig is a Canadian artist specializing in aerial art photography. “Beautiful Destruction – Alberta Tar Sands Aerial Photographs,” uses a style, hovering between documentary, conceptual and abstract, to grapple with a controversial topic, not through editorializing but by providing viewers the space to reflect, imagine and think for themselves.

Prior to the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, our film venues play their role in our small town: Nevada City Elementary is filled with Yuba River Charter School students, Oddfellows holds dance lessons, and Nevada Theatre is currently showing the Christmas Story. A change is gonna come, but for now, town is busy with those [...]

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon. At stake is one of Britain’s very last stretches of wilderness. The billionaire property developer Donald Trump has bought up hundreds of acres on the northeast coast of Scotland, best known to movie-lovers as [...]

Technology can be addictive. In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem, we created a short film lampooning the addictions of our generation.

Conservation advocates Rick Rutz and Shawn Cantrell have been working for 27 years to make the Elwha River dam removal project a reality.   On a rafting trip down the Elwha, they tell the story of taking the concept from “crazy idea” to landmark victory.