The Redford Center Stories Challenge is an annual youth environmental filmmaking challenge empowering students in grades 5th – 12th as the visionary leaders of environmental impact storytelling through a 90-second film. This video is a compilation of the 7 winning videos by these young and...
A tiny film with a big idea: to ask viewers across the world to take a minute to visualize the better future we could have, and then to talk about it. Screened at the Saturday Evening Program on April 2, 2022 at The Explorers Club...
"O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai" is an environmental film about human-caused extinction featuring a bird known as the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, which was once endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. Screened at the Sunday Family Program on March 5, 2023 at The Explorers Club...
When newlywed Australian zookeepers Jim and Jean Thomas pack up their suburban Melbourne lives and travel to the remote Papua New Guinea to save one of the world’s rarest animals – the Tenkile tree kangaroo – they quickly realise that improving human welfare is key...
In a UN first, a ferocious and talkative dinosaur bursts into the iconic General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters in New York, with a special warning for humanity and anyone who still thinks climate action is for the birds. Screened at the Friday Evening Program on...
On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it. Screened Sunday Day Program, March...
Through never-before-seen archival footage, hidden documents, and personal records, The Witness Is a Whale reveals the secret, illegal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of whales by the Soviet Union and Japan. This documentary also recounts the post-whaling recovery of whales and highlights their importance to...
Deep in the emerald cloud forests of Cusuco National Park of Honduras, scientists are on a quest to record the never-before-heard call of the endangered “exquisite spike-thumb frog” (Plectrohyla exquisita). What ensues is both a delightful portrait of the process of scientific discovery and an...
Sverri Steinholm grew up chasing sheep up and down the rugged, breathtaking slopes of the Faroe Islands. Today he is a pastor and compulsive runner. He finds solace and spiritual refuge from personal conflicts and the burdens of priesthood on the trails and roads of...
Lamya Essemlali is a mother and ocean activist dedicated to protecting marine turtles from being poached in the Indian Ocean and Pilot Whales from being hunted in the North Atlantic. But who is in more critical danger: the sea life or the human race who...
Daniel Balima is a senior horticulturalist from Tenkodogo, a small village in Burkina Faso. Daniel fell ill with polio as a child and despite growing up without using his legs, he managed to follow his father in the family nursery, walking on his hands alone. For...
It is a land of mystery, and yet, what happens here affects every single one of us. With never-before seen footage, our story brings audiences to the farthest reaches of this wild and majestic continent. It is the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth...
Turtle Odyssey explores the unique lifecycle of an Australian green sea turtle named Bunji and her incredible journey across the open ocean. The film follows Bunji from a hatchling on the beach into adulthood as she swims thousands of miles, meets incredible creatures and has...
Cotton-top tamarins live in only one corner of Colombia—right where Rosamira Guillen grew up. Today, she helps local communities earn their living sustainably and even restore the neighboring forest instead of chopping it down. Screened at the Sunday Day Program, April 3, 2022 at The Explorers...
#NatureNow is a personal and passionate call to arms from Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot to use nature to heal our broken climate. Made with no flights, recycled footage and zero net carbon. Screened Saturday Evening Program, Feb 29, 2020 ...
In his latest film Danny Macaskill takes on some child care the only way he knows how...
Wildlife photographer Tim Laman and family travel to Mount Desert Island, Maine to film the early lives of Common Loons. Told by his daughter, Jessica, the Lamans document a unique look at the intimate bond between Loon parents and their young. Screened at the FAMILY Program,...
The octopus is the closest we may get to meeting an alien. They evolved from a common cousin more than 500 million years ago, but are also intelligent creatures with proven problem-solving abilities. So what happens when you invite an eight-legged alien into your living...
In the far northern atolls of Papua New Guinea, ancient ritual combines with science to protect coral reefs. Screened at the Saturday Evening Program, April 9, 2022 at The Explorers Club...
