University Partners
NYU Shanghai
The annual New York WILD@NYUSH program is hosted by the NYU Shanghai Arts & Sciences faculty to bring an abridged WILD lineup to a campus across the world!
Going into its 4th year, this partnership features a day-long program of award-winning films and finalists from the 2023 festival and discussions led by NYU Shanghai professors. Celebrating Earth Day, the program fosters conversations around crises that face our natural world and solutions that are at work. Read more about the details of the 2023 event here!
In previous years, WILD@NYUSH has featured special guest speakers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and audience members from the Shanghai Natural History Museum and students from Yangjing Senior High School, a partner high school with NYU Shanghai.
New York University
Since 2016, New York WILD has partnered with NYU and NYU Shanghai to create distinctive annual film festival programs, hosted on the two campuses. In collaboration with university faculty from multiple academic departments, institutes and schools, New York WILD curates film programs that are aligned with the university curriculum and tailored for students.
“Inspiring the young future leaders of our planet is a vital part of New York WILD and NYU’s missions,” says Founder Nancy Rosenthal, “and what better way to have impact than to present a selection of films from the annual New York WILD Film Festival with special guest speakers, filmmakers and conservation scientists, on the university campuses.”
2040 Now Initiative
This year, in partnership with New York WILD Film Festival and the Green Film School Alliance, New York University is hosting a film competition to encourage student filmmakers to create stories that combat climate despair and inspire us to take action in the fight against climate change.
Cash prizes and more offered to the 5 award-winning student films!
Categories for short films are:
- THE FUNNY THING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE – How you can use humor, satire, irony, and positivity to combat climate despair
- RISING WATERS – How climate change and environmental injustices have generated challenges we face in our daily lives and communities
- LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE – How climate change impacts our relationships with each other and nature
- WILD SPIRIT – Hometown heroes on the frontlines of climate change
- WE MADE IT – Imagine what living in a climate neutral world looks like
To learn more and submit your film, visit 2040 Now!
The annual NY WILD@NYU program event is co-hosted by faculty in Tisch, the Center for Media, Culture and History, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Gallatin, CAS Environmental Sciences and the NYU Sustainability Program. A collaboration with the Earth Matters club to co-host NY WILD@NYU was initiated in 2020.
From 2017-2020, New York WILD and NYU also collaborated on an annual student short film contest, WILD in New York. Students were invited to submit a 2-5 minute film about something (a place, animal, event, research program, conservation initiative for example) in NYC related to the NY WILD themes of exploration, adventure, wildlife, conservation and the environment. The three top winning student films were celebrated at the annual NY WILD@NYU program event and the winner received a cash prize.
2020 Winners of “WILD in NY” Student Short Film Contest
Island to Island, Winner
Producer/Director Margaret Wiss, M.F.A. Dance Candidate 2020, NYU Tisch School for the Arts
A dancefilm created in collaboration with composer Colin Minigan, the dancers, and the landscapes of Islesford, ME and New York City.
A quartet of juxtaposed environments and duets. Exploring the in-between, places of transition, of comings and goings and how individuals make decisions.
– Of the interpersonal and inter-place.
Ecological City: The Story of New York’s Parks and Gardens, Honorable Mention
Producer/Director Priya Subberwal, BA Environmental Science Candidate 2022, College of Arts & Sciences, with minor in the Tisch School of Arts for Documentary
Ecological City follows a 9-hour artistic procession of Earth Celebrations, a New York environmental NGO focused on building community awareness and protection of parks and gardens in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, through art projects and programs.
Burying the Park, Honorable Mention
Producer/Director Jenny Levine, BA Journalism & Anthropology candidate 2020, College of Arts and Science (CAS), minor in the Tisch School of the Arts for Documentary
Eight years ago Sandy devastated Lower Manhattan. Now, the city wants to bury the popular East River Park under ten feet of landfill in the name of flood protection with little community input. With the threat of no viable green space in a lower income, elderly neighborhood for the foreseeable future, community members turn to activism to fight the city for their park.
Winners from past “WILD in NY” contests
2019 Winners of “WILD in NY” Contest
From left to right: Alexa Krupp, The Waterfront (Honorable Mention); Laura Zéphirin, Pigeons: Behind the Feathers (Runner-up); Augusta Thomson, flotsam (Winner)
2018 Winners of “WILD in NY” Contest
Jimmy Banta, Unnatural (Winner), Elle Luan, NYC’s Poop Revolution (Runner-Up), Rebecca Blandon, Cold Water Surfing (Honorable Mention)
Leading Faculty Collaborators & Supporters
NYU: Marcia Rock, Pegi Vail, Dianne Anderson
NYU Shanghai: Maria Montoya, Yifei Li, Ivan Rasmussen, Rodrigo Zeidan, Liangliang Zhang