As we step into 2025, The Redford Center takes this opportunity to reflect on the incredible milestones achieved over the past year. Through our unwavering commitment to supporting powerful storytelling, 2024 proved to be a banner year for our mission to inspire change and foster environmental and social justice through film.

In 2024, we were proud to support a diverse slate of feature-length and short documentary films that address critical issues, highlight resilient communities, and amplify voices advocating for a healthier planet. Several of these projects reached completion this year, a testament to the dedication of the filmmakers and the strength of the partnerships we’ve cultivated.

Here’s a list of the feature-length and short documentary films we proudly supported that reached completion in 2024:

Feature Films

Bring Them Home, Directed by Ivan MacDonald, Ivy MacDonald, & Daniel Glick

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.

(Completed February 2024)

Searching for Amani, Directed by Nicole Gormley & Debra Aroko

Searching for Amani follows a 13-year-old aspiring journalist who 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, and an activist is born as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.

(Completed June 2024)

Let Them Be Naked, Directed by Jeff Garner

Let Them Be Naked is an audacious exploration into the presence of toxic and often harmful chemicals in the fabrics and materials used in our everyday clothing. Since his mother’s death from breast cancer, designer and activist Jeff Garner has spearheaded a campaign to uncover the health implications of exposure to these chemicals and the urgent need for more ethical production of garments. His advocacy has created relationships with research organizations and innovators across the globe, all leading the conversation surrounding unregulated toxins in the fashion industry.

(Completed October 2024)

Mollie’s Pack, Directed by Thomas Winston

This is the true story of Mollie’s Pack. On January 12, 1995 wolves returned to Yellowstone, 50 years after their extirpation. Mollie Beattie, the first female director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, carried the first Canadian born wolf into The Park’s experimental acclimation enclosure, Alpha Female Wolf No. 5. From that day forward, their lives would be forever connected.

(Completed October 2024)

Standing Above the Clouds, Directed by Jalena Keane-Lee

Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural traditions through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families. 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.

(Completed May 2024)

Giants Rising, Directed by Lisa Landers

Giants Rising takes us into America’s redwood forests and explores the secrets, superpowers and saga of the tallest and some of the oldest living beings on Earth. Living links to the past, redwoods hold powers that may shape our future, including their ability to withstand fire, capture carbon, and offer clues about longevity. Through the lenses of science, culture, art and human health, discover the promise of solutions that will help us ALL rise up to face the challenges that lay ahead.

(Completed February 2024)

Singing Back the Buffalo, Directed by Tasha Hubbard

Singing Back the Buffalo is the epic story of the North American plains buffalo and Indigenous people told through an Indigenous lens as we witness the dream of restoring the buffalo to the land.

(Completed February 2024)

Emergent City, Directed by Jay Arthur Sterrenberg & Kelly Anderson

Emergent City chronicles a decade in a working class neighborhood at the edge of a changing Brooklyn. As rents and sea levels rise, a community grapples with the future of New York City’s last stretch of industrial waterfront.

(Completed June 2024)

Black Snow, Directed by Alina Simone

Black Snow tells the story of when residents of a remote Siberian coal mining settlement discover an abandoned Soviet mine has caught fire beneath their neighborhood, they turn to homemaker-turned-journalist Natalia Zubkova for help. But after Natalia’s independent news coverage goes viral, she finds herself the target of a massive government disinformation campaign.

(Completed November 2024)

Short Films

Planetwalker, Directed by Nadia Gill & Dominic Gill

Planetwalker follows Dr. John Francis, who 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.

(Completed August 2024)

Nuraga Bhumi, Directed by Danielle Khan Da Silva

Nuraga Bhumi follows an all-Indigenous women patrol team who have been trained by Gunung Leuser National Park rangers to help protect the forest and their critically endangered tiger relatives in Sumatra, Indonesia. The film highlights the importance of involving Indigenous women in local conservation efforts, and gives a glimpse into what it looks like when women-led Indigenous communities start reclaiming their birthright as land protectors.

(Completed August 2024)

Between Moon Tides, Directed by Jason Jaacks

Between Moon Tides follows researchers who predict that as sea levels inch upwards the salt marsh sparrow will go extinct by 2050. In coastal Rhode Island, a team of citizen scientists spends every day during the breeding season in the marsh – finding nests, monitoring nestlings, and experimenting with ways to stave off the sparrow’s nests from the encroaching tides.

(Completed December 2024)

Enraizados, Directed by Selim Benzeghia & Ivonne Serna

Enraizados captures the compelling story of Cherán, a P’urhépecha indigenous town in Mexico, rising against illegal logging to achieve self-determination and environmental revival. Amidst the global climate crisis, the film highlights the town’s path to autonomy as a model for sustainable living, showcasing Cherán’s enduring legacy, the challenges it faces, and its role as a beacon for community-driven environmental action. 

(Completed October 2024)

Kanenon:we – Original Seeds, Directed by Katsitsionni Fox & Katja Esson

Kanenonwe – Original Seeds follows Haudenosaunee women in Onondaga Nation, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and Oneida, Wisconsin as they reclaim their ancient role as seed keepers, regenerating, protecting and rematriating sacred and endangered heirloom seeds for the future generations. As these Haudenosaunee women step back into their sacred responsibility as seed keepers, they offer a powerful view of what is possible in Indigenous communities working toward food sovereignty. This film will be premiering at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival in February 2025. 

(Completed October 2024)

Where the Wind Blows, Directed by Hana Elias

Where the Wind Blows follows Nassib, who after building a life in New York City, returns to his hometown of Shefa-’Amr in Palestine for the first time in 50 years to revive an ancestral garden. Filmmaker Hana captures her whole family’s search for belonging as she intimately films her father Nassib planting, tending, and spending time in the garden over the course of five years.

(Completed September 2024)

hitoláayca: Going Upriver, Directed by Anna Lueck

hitoláayca: Going Upriver follows Devin Reuben, who is training to be the first certified nimiipuu whitewater guide of his generation. The nimiipuu (Nez Perce) have a long history with river travel– in fact, they introduced the practice to settlers– but centuries of displacement and disconnection means Tribal members are now largely absent from their ancestral rivers. Devin says, “it’s one big step for us: not just me, all of us. We’re slowly bringing our culture back.”

(Completed September 2024)

As we enter 2025, we remain committed to our mission of supporting transformative storytelling. Our filmmakers inspire us with their courage and creativity, and we are energized to continue empowering their work.