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Sacramento Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour
NOTE FOR DAY OF EVENT: You can buy tickets at the door - just make sure to get there on time because seating is limited. Doors open at 6!
The 7th annual Sacramento Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour
When:
Thursday, December 8th, 2016
Doors Open at 6:00 pm, Films 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Where:
24th Street Theatre
Sierra 2 Community Center
2791 24th St, Sacramento, CA 95818
Tickets:
Tickets will be available at the door, but space will be limited! We recommend you buy them online as soon as possible. If you sponsor this event, tickets are an included benefit. See sponsorship details below.
The great Central Valley of California has been identified by the World Wildlife Fund as one of North Americas most endangered eco-regions. Preserving its remaining open space and agricultural land is essential for sustaining native plants and wildlife, and ensuring a high quality of life for ourselves and future generations. Habitat 2020 is the Habitat & Conservation committee for ECOS, and a coalition that works to protect the lands, waters, wildlife and native plants in the Sacramento region. Habitat 2020 has designed a conservation vision for our region called the California Heartland Project; and through it, we seek to create a connected network of parks, preserves and conservation easements on working farms and ranches. The main goals of the California Heartland Project include increasing access to open space for education and recreation, protecting the unique biological diversity found in the Sacramento Valley and conserving our agricultural heritage. The beneficiary of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour in Sacramento is the California Heartland Project.
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival stands out as a film festival that inspires and motivates community members to go out and make a difference locally and beyond. ECOS specially designs the Sacramento festival program to address issues that are relevant to our local community, featuring short films that look at themes of water conservation, sustainable development and energy, food and local agriculture, wildlife protection, environmental activism, and outdoor recreation. We continue to make this film festival a lasting and rewarding annual event to inspire communities in Sacramento to enjoy and protect wild and scenic places close to home. Over the years, the festival has become an important event in our communitys calendar and we aspire to continue bringing this service to our local residents and neighbors.
Raffle and Silent Auction
Come early to make sure you can check out the raffle prizes and the wonderful selection of photography and artwork up for silent auction! It's a great opportunity to get that special gift for the holidays!
The Hosts and Beneficiary
ECOS hosts this event in partnership with Save Our Sandhill Cranes, a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining open space habitat and to the conservation of the California Central Valleys Sandhill Crane populations through education, outreach, and community activism.
The chosen beneficiary of all festival proceeds is the California Heartland Project, the regional conservation vision of Habitat 2020, the conservation committee of ECOS. The California Heartland Project seeks to create a connected network of parks, preserves, and conservation easements on working farms and ranchescreating access to open space for education and recreation, protecting the unique biological diversity found in the Sacramento Valley, and conserving our agricultural heritage.
Background of Wild and Scenic Film Festival
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival was started in 2003 by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). The 4-day event features over 125 award-winning films and welcomes over 80 guest speakers, celebrities, and activists who bring a human face to the environmental movement. SYRCL is now sharing their success with other organizations to bring the festival to over 100 communities nationwide. It is building a network of grassroots organizations connected by a common goal of using film to inspire activism. With the support of their National Partners, Clif Bar, Patagonia, Orion Magazine, Kleen Kanteen, and Sierra Nevada Brewing, Earthjustice, and Barefoot Wines, the festival is able to reach an even larger audience in tour venues coast to coast.
2016 Film Program
Parkers Top 50 Favorite Things about Northwest Rivers
This fun film celebrates the best things about Northwest rivers, from a kids perspective. From sun, to rain, to waterfalls, to wild salmon, to time with mom, its the rivers that make the Northwest such a special place.
Walt
Explore the life of Walt Shubin, San Joaquin-area grape farmer who has been striving to bring back this amazing river for over six decades. How do we value a river? How does a river form your life? Walt reminds us of the importance of a place like the San Joaquin.
Kew Gardens: Beyond the Gardens- The Forgotten Home of Coffee
This is a story of guardianship over one of the worlds most economically valuable crops, revealing the surprisingly fragile foundations that lie beneath the multi-billion pound industry, showing just how important Kews scientific research is to securing the fate of our cup of coffee.
The Fire Next Time
When the Rim Fire burned 256,000 acres of the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park in 2013, it exposed the impacts that high intensity wildfires are having on watersheds, wildlife, and carbon storage. It also forged a coalition of environmentalists, loggers, scientists, officials, and land managers who are responding to this megafire and recognize the need to forestall the next one.
Co2ld Waters
Five of the most respected names in the fly fishing world converge on a single creek in Montana to talk about their passion and to discuss the single biggest threat to their timeless pursuit, climate change. Can four million fly anglers make difference? Legendary fishermen, including Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia, believe it is possible.
A Dam Problem
Building successful relationships takes time but those relationships are the key to completing a successful dam removal and floodplain restoration project near Sisters, OR, that benefited farmers, fish and the surrounding ecosystem.
Sagebrush Sisters
Join three intrepid women, from ages 65 to 80, as they hike more than 50 miles following a pronghorn migration path across the high desert. The Greater Hart-Sheldon Region on the Oregon-Nevada border is a wildlife stronghold in the sagebrush sea, and these women hope to keep it that way.
Avaatara: The First Route Out
David Lama achieves first ascent of the Baatara gorge in Lebanon. If you travel roads that have already been discovered, you are basically always just following. But if you go somewhere where no ones ever been and do something no ones ever done, youre on the lead and thats one thing that I really like. David Lamas guiding philosophy has already taken him to the most impressive mountain ranges of the world and, more recently, to the Baartara gorge in Lebanon. A surreal Avatar-like landscape, unexploited and untouched.
Plant for the Planet
Eleven-year-old Felix Finkbeiner from Germany learned about climate change and how trees take up CO2. Inspired by Wangari Maathai, he founded Plant for the Planet which has now planted millions of trees. This and the other Young Voices for the Planet films document young people playing a vital role in catalyzing change in their homes, schools, communities and the world.
Soil Carbon Cowboys
Many people talk about the cattle business as a big environmental problem. Cattle, when properly grazed, offer solutions to soil health, animal health, human health, water supply and food nutrition. Its a brave new world, and its below our feet.
Diversity and Inclusion in Our Wild Spaces
A campfire discussion on improving the diversity of both the visitation and the employment within our parks and wild spaces happened last May in Yosemite National Park. A gathering of extraordinary people from non-profit agencies, land management bureaus and those involved in the movement to encourage more people of color to visit and seek careers in the outdoors brings light to important issues facing todays conservation movement and outdoor recreation.
Defined by the Line
Josh Ewing began visiting the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah to climb at Indian Creek and explore the local archaeology. But when he moved to the town of Bluff, he saw degradation from oil drilling, looting, and careless visitors. Ewing knew simply loving a place was no longer enough.
Dredging Up a Solution
Howard Wood, an amateur diver, restored the marine ecosystem in Lamlash Bay by establishing the first community-developed Marine Protected Area in Scotland. Narrated by Robert Redford, Dredging Up A Solution illustrates how an ordinary person can effect extraordinary change. Howard Wood is a true environmental hero who placed himself squarely in harms way to battle intimidating adversaries while building strong grassroots support.
One Woman Roadblock
A former tribal chief of the Xeni Gwetin First Nation, Marilyn Baptiste led her native community in defeating proposed gold and copper mines that would have destroyed Fish Lakea source of spiritual identity and livelihood for her people. Narrated by Robert Redford, One Woman Roadblock illustrates how an ordinary person can effect extraordinary change. Marilyn Baptiste is a true environmental hero who placed herself squarely in harms way to battle intimidating adversaries while building strong grassroots support.
A Line in the Sand
Edward Abbeys words have always been deliberately provocativeespecially when said in defense of the desert landscape he loved so much. The words in this film are a mash-up of quotes from speeches to articles, to interviews and books. Abbey was willing to say things that no one else would, and his sentiment is relevant now more than ever. What will we stand up for? What will be lost if we chose not to stand at all?
62 Years
The last time Ken Brower traveled down the Yampa River in Northwest Colorado was with his father, David Brower, in 1952. This was the year his father became the first executive director of the Sierra Club and joined the fight against a pair of proposed dams on the Green River in Northwest Colorado. The dams would have flooded the canyons of the Green and its tributary, Yampa, inundating the heart of Dinosaur National Monument. With a conservation campaign that included a book, magazine articles, a film, a traveling slideshow, grassroots organizing, river trips and lobbying, David Brower and the Sierra Club ultimately won the fightushering in a period many consider the dawn of modern environmentalism. 62 years later, Ken revisited the Yampa & Green Rivers to reflect on his fathers work, their 1952 river trip, and how we will confront the looming water crisis in the American West.
Go to the website for all of the details: http://www.ecosacramento.net/about-us/our-work/events/wsffsac/
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Location24th Street Theatre at Sierra 2 Center for the Arts & Community (View)
2791 24th Street
Sacramento, CA 95818
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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