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May 29, 2024Symphony of Silence Named Winner of $30,000 at Nature Connection Pitch, Co-Presented by The Redford Center and Mountainfilm Festival
Telluride, CO – May 29, 2024 – The Redford Center, in collaboration…
May 8, 2024Who’s Funding Efforts to Bring Climate Narratives to the Big Screen?
It seems like a simple pair of requirements: Does climate change exist in a film? And does a character know about it? In 2013, just one top film met that mark. The next year, two films did, as did a couple the year after that. In 2016? Zero. One year after the Paris Climate Agreement, there was not a single major movie that featured the global emergency.
May 6, 2024Meet Our 2024 Nature Connection Pitch Finalists
We are thrilled to announce the five exceptional films selected as finalists…
Apr 23, 2024NRDC, The Black List, The Redford Center, And The CAA Foundation Announce Recipients Of NRDC’s 2024 Climate Storytelling Fellowship
Now in its fourth year, the first-of-its-kind fellowship supports screenwriters in the revision of their feature or television screenplays that reflect our climate and environmental crises and engage with its impacts.
Apr 12, 2024Apply Now: Redford Center Grants 2024
Our Redford Center Grants Open Call is now LIVE! Learn more about how you can apply for funding to support the development, production, or postproduction of your next environmental nonfiction feature film or docuseries.
Jan 8, 20242024 Nature Connection Pitch at Mountainfilm Festival
The Redford Center and Mountainfilm are co-presenting a pitch event at the 2024 Mountainfilm Festival in partnership with IF/Then Shorts. Awardees will receive up to $25k, impact and professional development, as well as travel, accommodation, and passes to attend Mountainfilm Festival.
Dec 14, 2023The Redford Center Awards $400,000 to Filmmakers to Advance Environmental Solutions
Six documentaries from around the world advancing environmental action
May 23, 2023Introducing ‘Films That Move’
Friday Night Films is now Films That Move! We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with the international impact foundation, Imagine5. With their generous support, The Redford Center is relaunching our popular monthly screening series.
Apr 25, 2023NRDC, The CAA Foundation, The Redford Center, and the Black List Open Submissions For 2024 Climate Storytelling Fellowship
“Historically, documentary films and nonfiction media have been the primary place to find climate stories, solutions, and hope. Finally we’re starting to see an industry shift. Climate stories are more commercially viable than ever before,” said The Redford Center’s Executive Director Jill Tidman.
Apr 20, 2023Meet ten changemakers creating inclusive outdoor communities
Get inspired by changemakers who live, breathe, and work on solutions at the intersection of race, environment, history, culture, and the outdoors with exclusive short videos from our friends at The Trail Ahead podcast
Apr 18, 2023Writing Climate: Pitchfest for Film and TV
Do you have an idea for a climate-related TV show or film?
Apr 17, 2023The Redford Center 2022 Year in Review
In 2022, we delivered more than $3 million to filmmakers across the globe, supported a new cohort of 12 remarkable grantees, engaged 11 more fiscally sponsored film projects, and released our nationally-recognized short films series