Ready to Take Action?
Did you watch a film at the 2025 festival that inspired you to take action on an issue?
Want to learn about opportunities to get involved?
Check out the list below to see how you can make an impact.
A Journey to Zero Carbon
We make videos that tell the stories of innovators who are designing, financing, constructing, and occupying the buildings of tomorrow, today. Want to learn more? Visit Heart of a Building to see how you can support this cause.
Amazing Beeches
Want to do more? Support these Groups: The Nature Conservancy, The American Forest Foundation, The Arbor Day Foundation, or look for Local Conservation and Forestry Groups
Bring Them Home
To learn more about how you an help protect and grow the wild Blackfeet buffalo herd and support other efforts to return wild buffalo to North America, visit Thunder Heart Films – Bring them Home.
Earth Looks for Insurance
See how the Maui Huliau Foundation is providing unique environmental educational programs to Maui’s youth. Visit the Maui Huliau Foundation to learn more!
Echos of the Sound: The Story of Hugo and the Southern Residents
My Actions Count by Two Girls Take on the World is empowering individuals to make a difference. Visit My Actions Count to see how!
Feral Felines: Deconstructing Maui’s Feral Cat Crisis
See how the Maui Huliau Foundation is providing unique environmental educational programs to Maui’s youth. Visit the Maui Huliau Foundation to learn more!
Freetown’s Ultracool Roofs
Visit MEER to learn about cooling earth by reflecting sunlight. Join us to reduce global temperatures by 1-2 degrees centigrade while delivering local heat relief.
Hawai’i Invasives: Mistakes Were Made
See how the Maui Huliau Foundation is providing unique environmental educational programs to Maui’s youth. Visit the Maui Huliau Foundation to learn more!
Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River’s Legacy Forests
There are only 112,000 acres of legacy forests left on state land in Western Washington and less than 850 acres in the Elwha River Watershed. Please help us save these wonders of nature! Call the Commissioners of Public Lands @ 360-902-1004 or visit Elwha Legacy Forests to see what you can do!
Lead it Go
Visit The North American Non-Lead Partnership to see how hunters are leading the way in conservation.
Monarchs in Motion
Visit Monarch Watch to learn everything about monarch butterflies including research projects, tagging, biology and how to help protect and monitor them.
R.E.S.C.U.E
Our mission at Empowers Africa is to support programs in the area of human empowerment, wildlife protection and land conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. Visit Empowers Africa to see how you can help support our mission.
Return of the Grizzly
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly fights for the survival of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. Learn how you can support their mission at Save the Grizzly.
Safe Haven : The Rainbow-Jordan Wilderness
Visit the Valhalla Wilderness Society to see how you can help preserve the inland temperate rainforest and endangered Mountain Caribou.
Small is Beautiful
Support the local organizations fighting California’s state mandates that bypass environmental laws and safety regulations. To see the organizations in this fight visit Small is Beautiful – Take Action.
The Careist
The Friends of the Cache River Watershed is a not-for-profit group of citizens dedicated to protecting, enhancing and sharing a unique natural and recreational resource, the Cache River Wetlands.
The Forgotten Pacific
The Pacific Islands are on the front line of climate change. To help with this cause Join the Pacific Climate Warriors, Endorse the Fossil Fuels Non-proliferation Treaty or Listen to Pacific Climate Change Storytelling.
The Straight Poop
Wildlife conservation in Africa has been Biologists Without Borders primary mission, including anti-poaching support, habitat acquisition and land rehabilitation. Climate change represents a major impact that could further push vulnerable species to extinction. Find out how to take action at Biologists Without Borders – Climate Change.