TESTIMONIALS

HEAR IT FROM PAST VENUES!

Wild & Scenic On Tour has grown to over 90 locations nationwide since its conception in 2004. 80% of those venues are hosted by environmental organizations who have used the festival as a way to increase membership. See a complete list of all nonprofits in the Wild & Scenic Grassroots Network. They have experienced the value and ease of using Wild & Scenic On Tour’s turnkey format.  Hear what past tour venues have to say about hosting the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival and see why it is such an effective outreach tool.

Red Rocks Forest - Moab, UT
Terry Sheherd
"The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a community-wide event that celebrates how every one of us can make a positive contribution to our world – it brings the global community to our doorstep and makes us all agents of change."

Sitka Conservation Society - Sitka, AK
Natalie Sattler
“The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival On Tour provided our organization with a great opportunity to grow our membership, share our current work, and inspire community members to get involved in local environmental issues.”

Yellow Dog Watershed Partnership - Marquette, MI
Emily Whittaker
“Seeing the look on people’s faces after they attended the festival was by far the most inspiring to me! I could overhear a lot of conversation buzzing around what people might do differently right here at home. That made this event totally worth it!”

New Hampshire Rivers Council - Concord, NH
Steve Robinson
“The Wild and Scenic Film Festival meets multiple needs of environmental non-profits, from creating a new “community” of people, to generating a new revenue stream, to meeting the mission of the organizations.”

Friends of the Inyo - Mammoth Lakes and Bishop, CA
Stacy Corless
“The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival has really helped introduce Friends of the Inyo to the communities we serve. It’s so great to be able to bring a  fun, entertaining and enlightening event to Mammoth and Bishop with relative ease, thanks to the great organizational work by festival tour staff!"

Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center - Medford, OR
Lesley Adams
"Film is an artistic language that crosses political and social boundaries and offers a place for diverse perspectives to intertwine and mingle. By hosting the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Medford, KS Wild is given the opportunity to reach out to the Medford community in a way that we are not usually able to, and convey an environmental message and a conservation ethic that is often dismissed. Film is a wonderful medium with which to bring divergent interests together around a universal issue and discover that we have more in common than our perceived and historical differences suggest."

Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance - Jackson, WY
Becky Tillson
"We hosted a kids program in the morning, and watching that generation followed by the young adult and adult generations later in the evening was a real thrill. People across the generations are interested in the films, the Alliance and, most importantly, the environment. People who knew us were there, people who had never heard of our organization were there; people from out of town sat beside our most staunch supporters, and all were able to enjoy the films together, representing the entire spectrum of groups the Alliance intended to target. It gives us hope as the to the future direction and capacity of our organization, and to the support that environmental causes will have in the years and decades to come."

American Wildlands - Bozeman, MT
Catherine  Viscardi
"Being a tour site for the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival has really helped give American Wildlands a positive presence in our community. We have received nothing but praise for the event since we started hosting it in 2007. The staff and organization at WSEFF are wonderfully helpful and organized, which makes running the festival a delight as well!"

Save The Waves Coalition - Berkeley, CA
Christoph Huber
“I believe the event not only celebrated, but inspired environmental activism as the evening represented the progression of global environmentalism and the impact each individual can have when making the right choices.  By hosting the WSEFF, we could reach out to different groups in the community that aren’t directly ocean related. It was amazing to feel the common ground and energy that local communities bring together.”

Native Fish Society - Portland, OR
Fran Taylor
"The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival empowers citizens to make a difference in their own community.  Filmgoers left the festival knowing that they can make a difference.  We used this quote in the wrap up comments at the end of the festival: 'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has'…Margaret Mead"

Alaska Marine Conservation Council - Anchorage, AK
Diana DeFazio
"Hosting the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival gave our organization a unique opportunity to gain visibility in Anchorage – it was our biggest outreach success in Anchorage in our 13 year history."

Prairie Dog Coalition - Boulder, CO
Lindsey Sterling-Krank
"Together, SYRCL and Patagonia have organized the film festival so well that is an easy YES to host the event and get exactly what you want from it- new members, fundraising and fun, meaningful activism."

Clean Water for North Carolina - Asheville, NC
Hope Taylor
"Our organization never had so much fun raising money and getting new folks involved—what a wonderful opportunity for solidarity on crucial issues and educating the public!"

Heart of Illinois Sierra Club - Peoria, Illinois
Kiersten Sheets
"Hosting a Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a great opportunity to educate the public on living an environmentally friendly lifestyle. Attendees of our event included seven-year-olds to seventy-year-olds, doctors, lawyers, gas station attendants, students, and construction workers. We also attracted a range of ethnic backgrounds. Through hosting this event, our group has learned that people want to learn about global warming and living an energy efficient lifestyle, someone just needs to bring the information to them in an enjoyable form, such as a film festival.”

 

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