# Environmental Film Festivals - A List for the Planet

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Published: 2016-06-02 19:31:27 UTC
Updated: 2016-11-28 18:43:51 UTC
Author: Bob Peryea


Environmental films didn’t really exist until about the 1970’s. For the most part there were few film-makers seriously looking at the earth and our place in it until the late 1960’s.


Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) became the first commercially successful and most impactful environmental book in history. After that, books, then films, began to both celebrate the earth and lament its potential demise. Since that time, there have been hundreds of thousands of films and documentaries created that are designed to educate and warn. Some simply look at life on earth, particularly non-human life. Many are studies of the impacts that humans have had on the planet so far.

Former Vice-President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (directed by Davis Guggenheim) is the highest grossing documentary film in history. It was designed to be an accessible look global climate change and the impacts that it is having.
Each year, thousands of environmental films are released and there are many film festivals that celebrate these films, usually in the hopes of shedding light on what we can all do to help save the planet from the negative aspects of supporting 7 billion humans.


Here is an international list of film festivals that specialize in environmental films:


 

 	American Conservation Film Festival

http://conservationfilm.org


 

 	Artivist Film Festival

http://www.artivists.org


 

 	Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org


 

 	Black Maria Film and Video Festival

http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org


 

 	Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival



 

 	ecofilms - Rodos International Film + Visual Arts Festival

http://www.ecofilms.gr


 

 	ECOMOVE International

http://www.ecomove.de


 

 	Environmental Film Festival at Yale

http://environment.yale.edu/film


 

 	Environmental Film Festival (Washington, DC)

http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org


 

 	FICMA - Festival Internacional de Cinema del Medi Ambient

http://www.ficma.com


 

 	Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff


 

 	Global Visions Film Festival

http://www.globalvisionsfestival.com


 

 	Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival

http://www.hazelfilm.org


 

 	International Environmental Film Festival

http://www.ficma.com/index.php?l=en


 

 	Imagine Science Film Festival

http://www.imaginesciencefilms.com


 

 	International Wildlife Media Center & Film Festival

http://www.wildlifefilms.org


 

 	Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

http://www.jhfestival.org


 

 	Media That Matters Film Festival

http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/issue/environment/


 

 	Native Spirit Film Festival

http://www.nativespiritfoundation.org/


 

 	North Sea Film Festival

http://www.northseafilmfestival.com/home/


 

 	Planet In Focus: Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival

http://www.planetinfocus.org


 

 	Princeton Environmental Film Festival

http://www.princetonlibrary.org/peff


 

 	San Francisco Green Film Festival

http://sfgreenfilmfest.org


 

 	Santa Cruz Film Festival

http://santacruzfilmfestival.org/


 

 	Tales from Planet Earth Film Festival

http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/tales


 

 	Undercurrents: BEyONdTV

http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv


 

 	United Nations Association Film Festival

http://www.unaff.org


 

 	Vermont International Film Festival

http://www.vtiff.org


 

 	Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

http://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org


 

 	Wild Talk Africa - Wildlife Film Festival & Conference

https://www.wildtalkafrica.com


 

 	Wildscreen Festival

http://www.wildscreen.org


 

 	World Community Film Festival

http://worldcommunity.ca/film-festival/


 

 	Yosemite Film Festival

http://www.yosemitefilmfestival.com


 
If you know of other film festivals that feature environmental films, please let us know. We would love to keep this list up to date.




###### Article written by Bob Peryea for The Monthly Film Festival