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October 14, 2021

Jamie's Wisdom One Year Later

A note from our Executive Director, Jill Tidman, for our community to reflect and remember The Redford Center's co-founder James Redford, one year after his passing.

October 13, 2021

Congratulations to the 2021 Nature Access Pitch Finalists!

Congratulations to the six films that have been selected as finalists in the inaugural IF/Then Shorts x The Redford Center Nature Access Pitch!

October 7, 2021

Celebrating Huge Milestones for Colorado River Restoration

Join us on October 14-15 to celebrate the accomplishments of bringing water and life back to the Colorado River Delta with the first Raise the River Festival!

September 29, 2021

Congratulations to the Climate Storytelling Fellowship Recipients!

Congratulations to the 2021 Climate Storytelling Fellowship Recipients: Elise H. Greven (SILENT SPRING), Jonathan Brebner (THE DEMON), and Ellie Bambach Morello (AMERICAN EXILES).

September 21, 2021

What are you doing this Zero Emissions Day?

This Zero Emissions Day and Clean Energy Week, join us in celebrating stories of community action for a healthier, more equitable future for all.

September 14, 2021

Announcing Our Latest Grant Investments

We are awarding nearly $300,000 in production and impact funding to six grantee documentaries focused on the critical stories of water, land, and environmental justice.

August 16, 2021

Nature Access Pitch Deadline is in ONE Week!

The IF/Then Shorts x The Redford Center Nature Access Pitch invites filmmakers to submit standalone short documentaries that celebrate people, places, and paths to accessing the outdoors while highlighting the complex social, racial, economic, and health inequities related to issues of nature access.

August 11, 2021

New film! Introducing our Community Power Series

Community Power Arizona: En Nuestrxs Manos (In Our Hands), directed by Pita Juarez, tells the story of passionate mothers and grassroots organizers banding together in a crucial victory that brought clean energy, cleaner air, and Arizona’s first 84-seat electric school bus to the young people of Maricopa County.

July 21, 2021

Announcing the IF/Then x The Redford Center Nature Access Pitch

New collaboration at DOC NYC festival supports diverse filmmakers and stories of people, places, and paths to accessing the outdoors.

July 16, 2021

Youth Challenge Awardees Featured in Nautilus Spark of Science

Nautilus, a digital science publication that shares stories at the intersection of science, culture, and philosophy, recently featured awardees of Redford Center Stories Youth Filmmaking Contest as part of their Spark of Science series.

June 30, 2021

Careers with The Redford Center

As we look forward to a world in equitable balance, we know that our best way to contribute is with a team filled with passionate, driven individuals invested in our collective future. We are thrilled to be hiring for 3 new positions. Help us spread the word by forwarding this email to someone you think would be a great fit!

May 27, 2021

Announcing the Climate Storytelling Fellowship

The Redford Center is excited to announce our partnership with NRDC’s Rewrite the Future program and The Black List to launch the new Climate Storytelling Fellowship, which aims to encourage more varied climate stories that reflect the reality of the climate crisis and solutions.

May 20, 2021

Career Opportunities with The Redford Center

As we continue building out new programs to achieve our mission, we are adding five new positions to our growing team. We are looking for folks who are energetic and resourceful, excited to help shape a dynamic and growing organization, and who are passionate about our mission of galvanizing environmental justice and regeneration using the power of storytelling.

May 7, 2021

Remembering James Redford

As we celebrate our Co-Founder’s birthday this week, we reflect through a special film tribute on his legacy of environmental and social justice storytelling, and are proud that it lives on through the lives he touched, the stories he told, and the hope he sparked through his films and The Redford Center’s mission.

April 30, 2021

Join us in celebrating this year’s Redford Center Stories Challenge Winners!

We proudly share with you Redford Center Stories: 2021 Film Awards featuring 11 award-achieving films from over 400 submissions received. We were inspired by all, but these 11 films stood out to our esteemed panel of judges for their heartfelt, uplifting, and hopeful message for the future.

March 8, 2021

Celebrating Women This Month and Every Month

Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day provide an opportunity for The Redford Center to shine a light on some of the extraordinary women shaping our work, inspiring our community, and taking bold environmental action.

January 28, 2021

Greeting the New Year with Hope

Welcome to a new year! President Biden’s first weeks mark a new era of hope for climate action. On day one, he recommitted the US to the Paris Agreement, and prevented future environmental destruction by revoking the Keystone XL pipeline and halting drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

December 1, 2020

Meet Environmental Repair Champion: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

We are thrilled to introduce filmmaker, change-maker and Environmental Repair Champion, ELI JACOBS-FANTAUZZI.The day we called Eli to let him know we would be supporting his upcoming film WE STILL HERE- AQUI ESTAMOS the story of the young leaders of Comerío, Puerto Rico who came together to transform and reimagine their community after Hurricane Maria decimated it in September 2017—it was the three year anniversary of the day the hurricane made landfall.

October 30, 2020

Friday Night Films: #Powerthe Vote Part 2

Last week, we shared five videos from our #PowerTheVote campaign as our Friday Night Film. This week, we're doubling down and sharing the next five! Our campaign videos have been viewed by over 100,00 people nationwide with the help of great distribution partners including musician Jack Johnson, the Sierra Club, Voto Latino, Outdoor Afro and many others.

October 22, 2020

Friday Night Films: #PowerTheVote Part 1

As a tribute to James Redford, and the hopeful future vision of a healthier world that he held for us all, this week’s Friday Night Films are a collection of shorts created for our recently launched #PowerTheVote campaign, which aims to engage voters who care about the planet.

October 20, 2020

Remembering Jamie Redford

Dear Redford Center Community,

I write to you today with a very heavy heart. For those of you who have not heard, our beloved James Redford passed away on Friday, far too soon, surrounded by family, at the age of 58. Jamie was not only our intrepid Co-Founder, Board Chair, chief storyteller and a friend to us all—he was a builder of community, our community. And I have never been so moved as I have these past few days, receiving the most stunning outpouring of love and support from so many of you who knew him.

September 29, 2020

We Tripled Our Number of Supported Filmmakers!

We knew we had to do more this year. With the convergence of crises, we knew this was the moment for The Redford Center to invest in more filmmakers and impact films than we ever have before. So thanks to our generous donors who stepped up with new support this summer and enabled us to fulfill this vision, I am thrilled to announce that for our third grant-giving cycle, we are bringing on 22 incredible film projects poised for transformative impact.

July 27, 2020

Meeting the Moment

About a year ago, when faced with the shrinking global timeline to reverse decades of environmental degradation and pollution, we at The Redford Center made a commitment to vastly scale our impact—with the ultimate goal of using storytelling to engage significantly more people, and a more diverse population of people, in the fight for environmental justice, protection and repair.

July 4, 2020

"What To My People Is The Fourth of July?"

As we enter the July 4th weekend marking the 244th year since the The United States of America was founded by European colonialists, we wanted to take a pause from our regular Friday Night Films series and hold space to amplify the voices of other activist storytellers.

June 2, 2020

When any of us are oppressed, none of us are free.

As an organization dedicated to environmental justice, protection and repair, we are taking this moment to listen deeply, and to speak with our environmental community to ensure that the ultimate aim of the environmental movement is that all people have access to a safe and healthy life.

April 27, 2020

It’s Earth Day And We Have Contest Winners And A Freebie For You!

Today is not just another Earth Day. It’s our 50^th one. And while plans for getting one billion people out in the streets demanding climate action have been shuttered by COVID-19, us billion are as committed as ever to the cause. Maybe even a little more now.

February 3, 2020

Fiscal Sponsorship Program 2020

My first day on the job with The Redford Center I was tasked with understanding what fiscal sponsorship for films entails and whether it made sense for The Redford Center to offer it to kindred environmental filmmakers.

January 21, 2020

More Grants, More Impact in 2020

2020 marks the start of a critically important decade for humanity. In the next ten years, we must escalate our efforts toward making a just transition to a low carbon economy. This means addressing the urgency of the climate crisis and healing the centuries of collateral damage inflicted on communities by the unchecked use of fossil fuels. In my mind, it also means using stories to lead a cultural shift that helps us realize the potential of big ideas like the Green New Deal and showcasing individual and community efforts that help redefine what it means to be an environmentalist.

October 17, 2019

October 2019 Newsletter

This month’s newsletter offers a look back at two years of impact with our film, Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution. We cover the excitement of the present with our newest project, Redford Center Stories. You’ll also get a few glimpses into the future, including our growth plans and upcoming film premieres. Finally, we share a few perspectives from Robert Redford that remind us of the foundation for all of this work.

October 15, 2019

2019 Q3 'Happening' Bulletin

We’re on the home stretch of 2019, approaching the second anniversary of the HBO premiere of our feature documentary, Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution, and the launch of a collaborative, multi-year initiative to accelerate clean energy movements. Today, we are proud to present our Happening 2019 Impact Report.

September 20, 2019

September 2019 Newsletter: Climate Week

Youth activists everywhere are leading their peers, parents, teachers and communities at large in the global climate strike, an unprecedented show of human will to safeguard Earth’s future. The Redford Center team, like our esteemed co-founder, Robert Redford, has been energized by the power and vision we’ve felt and witnessed among these young champions of sustainability.

August 22, 2019

August 2019 Newsletter

This month, we're thrilled to announce the projects we've selected to receive second round grants of $50,000 each to complete production, find their audiences, and move the environmental conversation forward in 2020 and beyond.

July 18, 2019

July 2019 Newsletter

As the scale of the climate crisis becomes increasingly clear, it’s easy to start believing that personal action is never going to be enough to solve the problem. It reflects what researchers call "the hope gap,” and if there were ever a gap for storytellers to fill, this one is paramount.

June 28, 2019

2019 Q2 'Happening' Bulletin

The climate crisis is finally a mainstream issue. That’s progress worth celebrating, because it means a lot more of us stand to witness the revolution that’s been quietly brewing in the energy sector.

June 12, 2019

June 2019 Newsletter

For good reason, mainstream media is ringing the planet’s alarm bell loudly again. A report released last month by the United Nations details the looming collapse of our ecosystems as one million plant and animal species face near-term extinction.

May 30, 2019

Robert Redford will double your donation for this film

Our co-founder has generously offered to match donations up to $50,000 to help us explore the link between nature and wellness and to share a story that will inspire millions to reclaim a life outdoors.

May 17, 2019

May 2019 Newsletter

The more I learn about access to nature, the more I begin to see the value of The Redford Center’s work in a new light. It’s not just about protecting and restoring the outdoors. It’s about making sure that everyone can access and enjoy it.

April 11, 2019

April 2019 Newsletter

Since the Green New Deal entered the zeitgeist of American politics, we’ve been hearing a lot about its urgency from one side of the debate and how preposterous it is from the other. So if you’re like us, you’re probably wondering: what exactly is the deal?

March 26, 2019

2019 Q1 'Happening' Bulletin

For eight days during Solar Education Week (April 15-21) and Earth Day (April 22), we will invite college students and educators to get involved with a special Happening offer (details below) and two minutes of daily encouragement from our Happening spin-off mini-series.

March 15, 2019

These children are literally fighting for our future

As climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet, adults have failed our youth — and the world’s young people are no longer sitting back quietly.

March 1, 2019

March 2019 Newsletter

This month, we present you with a look at the year behind us, and a glimpse of what’s ahead, with our 2018 Year In Review.

February 5, 2019

February 2019 Newsletter

I recently had the privilege of meeting the father of biodiversity, Dr. E.O. Wilson. In addition to being the world’s foremost authority on ants, Dr. Wilson has been working for decades to preserve the most biodiverse places on earth

January 15, 2019

January 2019 Newsletter

A fall 2018 report by the United Nations’ IPCC has shaken the global community with alarming predictions of what’s ahead. But as UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The mountain in front of us is very high. But it is not insurmountable. We know how to scale it.”

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