Introducing the James Redford Campus at True West Film Center
We warmly welcome you to the official groundbreaking of the True West Film Center’s campus named in honor of our late and beloved cofounder, James Redford. Join us for a celebration with family, friends, and community members that will take place on Sunday, September 22nd, from 11am to 1pm at the True West Film Center Courtyard, 375 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, CA 95448.
The True West Film Center is more than a movie theater, it is a community institution that removes barriers to film and media arts by supporting artists, educating students of all ages, and creating joy through entertainment. Funds from this phase of the project will help outfit the theater, ensure a successful launch, and support the expansion of offerings to foster a community where everyone belongs.
Film as a Catalyst for Healing at the EGA Fall Retreat
We are excited to host an insightful session titled, Film as a Catalyst for Healing: How community-led Storytelling is Restoring our Rivers, at the 2024 Environmental Grantmakers Association’s fall retreat. Featuring Amy Bowers-Cordalis (Founder, Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Fund), Aida Navarro (Coordinator, Raise the River Coalition), Shane Anderson (Director, Undamming Klamath), and moderated by Jill Tidman (Executive Director, The Redford Center), our session will explore the restoration impact that environmental films, Redford Center original, WATERSHED: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West and Redford Center Grantee, UNDAMMING KLAMATH, have had on two distinct river ecosystems: the Colorado River Delta and Klamath River Basin.
Community members and filmmakers will share how they have leveraged storytelling as a tool to heal their communities, educate policymakers, document progress, and amplify replicable solutions.
Opportunities
Black Public Media Open Call
Inclusive and Socially Conscious Filmmaking Lab
PIC Fall Open Call
A Mobilization for Women’s Rights and the Planet
Upcoming Screenings
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.
Farming While Black
Farming While Black is a feature-length documentary film that examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the US and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.
Emergent City
Residents of Sunset Park face a tangled web of rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism, and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases Industry City—a massive industrial complex on the waterfront—and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.
Common Ground
Common Ground explores how Americans from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different parts of the country share one thing in common—the very soil beneath their feet. The film investigates the power of “regenerative” farming systems—from large to small-scale farmers who are the champions of soil health as the key to unlocking more (and healthier) food to feed America and the world.
Hollow Tree
Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.
Searching for Amani
A 13-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father’s mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.
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.