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October Spotlight: Top News and Insights from The Redford Center

Reflect on the life, legacy, and wisdom of James Redford. Meet our 2024-25 Redford Center Grantee cohort. Join us in celebrating our growing community and upcoming opportunities, and more.

Nov 12, 2024

Films That Move: Capturing Complexity in Environmental Storytelling

We’d like to thank everyone who joined our October Films That Move special virtual event presented in collaboration with DC Environmental Film Festival (DCEFF): Capturing Complexity in Environmental Storytelling featuring Impossible Town directors, Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris, former West Virginia State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad, Professor of Environmental Ethics Cara Greene, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Coordinator Lisa Trakis.

Our panelists discussed working with rural Appalachian communities, mobilizing local communities, and Impossible Town, a film that chronicles Dr. Amjad’s audacious plan to relocate a southern WV community that has been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. If you did not get a chance to tune in live, you can click the link below to watch our panel.

Films That Move Presents: Planetwalker

We’re excited to share that Redford Center supported film, Planetwalker directed by Dominic Gill and Nadia Gill will be the featured film for the month of November in our Films That Move Series.

About the Film:
In 1971 John Francis, known the world over as ‘Planetwalker,’ witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The sight of oiled birds on the shoreline caused him to give up motorized transport and rely solely on his own two feet. Months after that he took a vow of silence convinced that listening rather than adding fuel to any fire was the way ahead.

He didn’t talk, but he kept on walking clear across the country and back again. During the next seventeen silent years he listened and studied the world around him.

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.