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Dec 2, 2024Case Study: Watershed — A Documentary that Changed the Course of the Colorado River
“Films like Watershed are a necessary part of the solution. Raising awareness of the…
Nov 12, 2024October Spotlight: Top News and Insights from The Redford Center
Reflect on the life, legacy, and wisdom of James Redford. Meet our 2024-25 Redford Center Grantee cohort. Join us in celebrating our growing community and upcoming opportunities, and more.
Nov 10, 2024Capturing Complexity in Environmental Filmmaking
Watch our Films That Move recorded event: Capturing Complexity in Environmental Filmmaking featuring Impossible Town directors, Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris, former West Virginia State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad, Professor of Environmental Ethics Cara Greene, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Coordinator Lisa Trakis.
Oct 29, 2024The Redford Center Awards $325,000 to 13 environmental films, championing solutions across the globe
Meet the 13 inspiring film projects and filmmakers from around the globe that are advancing environmental solutions.
Oct 10, 2024Watch our Latest Short Film Narrated by our Cofounder, Robert Redford
Watch our latest piece highlighting the people, places, actions, and solutions featured in our remarkable network of films
Oct 4, 2024September Spotlight: Top News and Insights from The Redford Center
Celebrate the groundbreaking of the True West Film Center, including the James Redford Campus. Join us in congratulating Redford Center Grantee, Path of the Panther, on their Emmy win. RSVP to upcoming Redford Center supported events, screenings, and more.
Sep 5, 2024August Spotlight: Top News and Insights from the Redford Center
Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of our late cofounder, James Redford, at the groundbreaking of True West Film Center’s campus named in his honor. Learn more about our upcoming events. Take advantage of upcoming filmmaker opportunities, and catch a screening of these Redford Center supported films.
Aug 2, 2024July Spotlight: Top News and Insights from the Redford Center
Join us in congratulating the awardees of the Bloomberg Green Docs competition, including Redford Center Grantee, Finding Home. Learn more about our time and impact at The Hollywood Climate Summit. Sign up for Brown Girls Doc Mafia’s four part workshop on restorative care for artists and NRDC’s Climate Storytelling Fellowship. Catch a screening of Redford Center supported films Planetwalker and Bring Them Home, and meet our new fiscally sponsored projects, Untitled Iditarod Project, Let No One Lose Heart, Plant Life, and The Time Travelers.
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.