June Spotlight: Top News & Insights from The Redford Center

Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival

Join us on Friday, July 12, in Seattle, WA for the Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival, featuring Redford Center Executive Director Jill Tidman and supported filmmakers Andrew Nadkarni and Dominic & Nadia Gill. Programming will kick off at 2:05 PM with Between Earth and Sky by Andrew Nadkarni, winner of The Redford Center’s 2021 Nature Connection Pitch at DOCNYC. Q&A to follow with Andrew Nadkarni and Jill Tidman.

Additional afternoon screenings include Chasing Time by Sarah Keo & Jeff Orlowski-Yang at 2:45 PM; A New Kind of Wilderness by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen at 3:40 PM; and A Symphony of Tiny Lights by Dominic & Nadia Gill at 5:10 PM.

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Searching for Amani Tribeca Premiere

Redford Center Fiscally Sponsored Film, Searching for Amani, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival this month and was awarded the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director. The film follows a 13-year-old aspiring journalist as he investigates his father’s mysterious murder in one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts and an activist is born as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.

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Upcoming Screenings of Redford Center Supported Films at Black Star Film Festival

Bring Them Home
Bring Them Home tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to establish the first wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory since the species’ near-extinction a century ago, an act that would restore the land, re-enliven traditional culture and bring much needed healing to their community.
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Standing Above the Clouds
When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi (protectors) in Hawaiʻi and around the world dedicate their lives to protecting the sacred mountain from destruction. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiʻian families, Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural traditions.
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How Hollywood Can Make Climate Stories Sexy

Our Senior Program Director and co-founder of The Hollywood Climate Summit, Heather Fipps, along with Hollywood Climate Summit cofounders Allison Begalman and Ali Weinstein, recently shared their insights on breaking down the ways — subtle and not — our entertainment industry can address environmental themes while remaining entertaining. Read the full Hollywood Reporter article below.

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Meet Our New Fiscally Sponsored Projects

Contamination
After Michael Hickey’s beloved father, a factory worker and school bus driver, succumbs to a rare kidney cancer, Michael tests the local water supply on his own and discovers extraordinarily high levels of a cancer-causing “forever chemical” used in the manufacturing of Teflon. Meanwhile, a young, determined mother, Emily Marpe, having learned that the plant next door is poisoning her small children, decides to take on the manufacturing giant responsible for the pollution, beginning a one-woman crusade to protect her family and her neighbors.
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Forgotten Fiber
In the twilight of her career, Jeanne Carver battles to rescue the American wool industry and rejuvenate the land it relies upon and confronts the persistent inertia of consumer attitudes and habits that threaten to keep progress at bay.
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Surfing Saves

Using surfing as a metaphor for life, Surfing Saves illuminates the ever-emerging stories of how surfing saves people, those people become inspired to save the places they love and how, as a global community, surfers are helping to save our planet.
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Support The Redford Center Grants Program

This year, the open call for our 2024-25 Grants program received over 500 applications — more than double the number submitted in prior years. The demand for the funding, mentorship, and professional development that our program offers is strong — and the opportunities for these films to catalyze environmental progress is limited only by how deeply we can invest in their potential. The Redford Center is a non-endowed nonprofit organization; every dollar we award is thanks to our generous community of storytelling advocates. We are still seeking additional contributions to support our 2024–25 cohort of grantees.

Please reach out to us if you are interested in learning more about how you can join the circle of supporters that makes Redford Center Grants possible.

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About The Redford Center

Co-founded in 2005 by activists and filmmakers Robert Redford and James Redford, The Redford Center is a nonprofit that advances environmental solutions through the power of stories that move. As one of the only US-based nonprofits solely dedicated to environmental impact filmmaking, The Redford Center develops and invests in projects that foster action and strengthen the reach of the grassroots efforts powering the environmental movement. Over the years, The Redford Center has produced three award-winning feature documentaries and more than 40 short films, supported over 150 film and media projects with grants and other services, inspired the creation of 550 student films, and disbursed more than $20 million to environmental film projects, amplifying change-making environmental solutions to millions of people worldwide.