July Spotlight: Top News and Insights from the Redford Center

Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival

Our Executive Director Jill Tidman served on the jury for the Bloomberg Green Docs Competition where Redford Center Grantee, Finding Home, was the winner selected selected from four other finalists including, Climate Diaries: Heather’s Story, Grove of Giants, Life with Bats, and Saving Glaciers.

Jill was also joined by Redford Center supported filmmakers Andrew Nadkarni and Dominic and Nadia Gill for screenings of their films and a Q&A following Andrew’s film Between Earth & Sky — winner of The Redford Center’s 2021 Nature Connection Pitch at DOCNYC.

Meet the Bloomberg Green Docs Finalists

Redford Center Grantee ‘Finding Home’ Awarded at Bloomberg Green Docs Festival

Directed by Maria Stanisheva, Finding Home, is the pilot of an eponymous documentary series. Each episode tells an individual climate refugee story. The pilot episode took first prize at the Bloomberg Green Docs competition, announced Friday July 12th at the Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle.

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Hollywood Climate Summit Recap

The Redford Center was proud to partner with the 5th annual Hollywood Climate Summit, where more than 3,000 creatives and cross-sector professionals gathered to ignite change both in person and online. We immersed ourselves in four days of transformative discussions, compelling stories, networking—all centered around the power that the media and entertainment industry has to take action on climate. The Redford Center supported the pilot of the first ever Hollywood Climate Summit Film and TV Marketplace which showcased 13 films for over 60 distributors, sales agents, and platforms. Robert Redford served as a jury member of the final curated films.

Opportunities

NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship

For the fourth year in a row, we’re partnering with the NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship to support storytellers with $20k and mentorship from industry professionals. Have a script offering a new perspective on the climate crisis? Apply now!

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Pause & Play: Unpacking Wellness in Independent Film

Burnout? Lonely? Uncertain about the future of the doc field? Brown Girls Doc Mafia & OTV | Open Television invite you to a four-part virtual series centering the theory & practice of restorative care. Participants will leave each interactive session with tangible toolkits to incorporate care and joy into their practice, and a community moving to do the same. Everyone is invited! The first session is dedicated to film worker care on Thursday, August 8 from 12:00 – 1:30pm ET

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Upcoming Screenings

Planetwalker

After witnessing a devastating oil spill, Dr. John Francis takes a vow of silence and gives up motorized transport, embarking on a 17-year journey across America to raise awareness about environmental issues, armed only with his banjo and an unyielding commitment to living his principles

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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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Meet Our New Fiscally Sponsored Projects

Untitled Iditarod Project

This fiscally sponsored film follows a journey with Jody Potts-Joseph (Han Gwich’in) as she pursues her childhood dream of competing in the famed Iditarod while navigating the impacts of climate change on her dogs, the salmon relatives and her peoples’ way of life.

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Let No One Lose Heart

74-year-old, retired grandmother of 12, Sharon Lavigne, thrusts herself into environmental activism and sets out to take down the poisonous fossil fuel industry in the Gulf South. Her quest is long and difficult, but she battles on because the stakes — her health and home — are too high to lose heart.

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Plant Life

Plant geneticist Dr. Joanne Chory and her colleagues are on a mission — supercharging crop plants to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it deep in Earth’s soil, potentially halving the pace of climate change. But time is running out. And it’s not just the ticking clock of ecological collapse: Dr. Chory’s has advanced Parkinson’s disease.

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The Time Travelers

The story of the women and men going to the ends of the earth to reach back into the deep past to try and better understand the future for life on this planet. Paleoclimate research is such a crucial step in building the predictive models that inform climate policy, guide corporate action, and shape public dialogue, yet very little has been created on the subject in long-form video. The goal with this film is to utilize hard science and themes of landscape, time, and adventure to contextualize this complex issue and speak about “how we know” what we know about climate change in the present day.

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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.

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