A Taste of the Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Select Trailers

Your film program for the evening is available here.

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time grew directly out of an earlier film project, The Greatest Good, which was a history of the US Forest Service’s first 100 years, and, by extension the first 100 years of American conservation.  Aldo Leopold featured prominently in that film because he was one of the early Forest Service employees whose work and ideas were greatly influenced by his experience in the National Forests of Arizona and New Mexico, and he is also one of the few individuals whose work and ideas now continue to influence the work and mission of the agency across the nation.

During the process of filming The Greatest Good, the film team proposed to make a film about this man who has had such a great influence on the direction of conservation over the past half-century. As the process unfolded, Green Fire became more than a biography of Aldo Leopold; it explores the development of his “land ethic” and how that idea continues to inform and inspire projects in communities across the country and around the world today.  If The Greatest Good was a film about the first 100 years of conservation, then perhaps Green Fire is a film about the next hundred.

The final Film Program is subject to change, and may or may not include the following films. Thank you for your understanding.

Into Darkness Journey along with a group of cavers who push impossibly small passages to access some of the final frontiers on earth. The images and sounds of these spectacular and remote wilderness caves reveal a fantastic world unlike anything we experience on the surface. Best in Show, NSS Video Salon; Audience Favorite Short Doc, NW Film and Video Festival. John Waller

Walking the Line What’s it like to walk 500 miles of a proposed transmission line—a line that will run through some of the West’s most remote landscapes? World-class thru-hiker, Adam Bradley hiked it to help the Nevada Wilderness Project find out how our country’s transition to renewable energy will affect the land, wildlife and people. Jim Karpowicz

Meet Your Farmer A series of four short profiles of farms in Maine. Produced for Maine Farmland Trust, an organization that works to preserve farmland in Maine for farming use, the films offer a glimpse at the many different types of farms in the state. From the potato harvest in Aroostook County, to the innovations of a seventh-generation farmer Downeast, to the struggles of a dairy farmer in Western Maine, the short films remind viewers that farming is more than just a historical feature of Maine; farming in Maine is alive and well. Jason Mann

Disturbance As a hybrid of natural history documentary and political commentary, this unique film explores the complexity of fire management and fire ecology of the Northern Rockies. It speaks to homeowners, taxpayers, and anyone who cares about the diversity of life on earth. Numerous awards including College Emmy, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; CINE Golden Eagle & Bronze Telly, International Wildlife FF Conservation Media

Witness Notable anthropologist Jane Goodall, National Geographic Editor-at-Large Michael Nichols, and International League of Conservation Photographers president Cristina Mittermeier, among many others, share candid thoughts on the power of photography and its value as an effective conservation tool. The narrative is accompanied by stunning photographic contributions from over 40 conservation photographers to illustrate the convergence between the conservation and photography realms. Neil Ever Osborne, Chad A. Stevens

For more information, to volunteer, become a sponsor of this event, or to reserve a block of tickets, contact: Carla Olson, carla@azwild.org, or 480-201-6762