Stories that Protect What’s Still Wild
World Nature Conservation Day is a reminder that protecting the planet means protecting its stories too. At The Redford Center, we support filmmakers and movement leaders who are capturing the most urgent stories of the natural world.
From Kanenon:we – Original Seeds, where Indigenous women reconnect with ancestral seeds, to Watershed and the coalition it helped catalyze, Raise the River, which works to restore the Colorado River Delta, the stories we support spark action and help shape a future where care and connection guide conservation.
This work is ongoing and powered by communities. We’re proud to stand with those using storytelling as a tool for lasting ecological care.
Raise the River Featured on PBS’s ‘Human Footprint’
The Colorado River Delta was once a thriving wetland. After decades of diversion and damming, it ran dry. But the land is not lost. With care, coordination, and community, it is coming back to life.
Raise the River, a coalition inspired by The Redford Center’s 2012 film Watershed, is featured in the PBS series Human Footprint. In the episode “Dammed if You Do,” host Shane Campbell-Staton visits the Delta to meet Aida Navarro, who helps lead restoration efforts, and Don Beto, a farmer working in partnership with our coalition on sustainable agriculture to conserve water.
Their stories are grounded in relationships, resilience and the belief that deserts can bloom again.
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‘Kanenon:we – Original Seeds’ Wins Best Short Doc at Roxbury International Film Festival
About The Redford Center
Co-founded in 2005 by activists and filmmakers Robert Redford and James Redford, The Redford Center is a nonprofit that advances environmental solutions through the power of stories that move. As one of the only US-based nonprofits solely dedicated to environmental impact filmmaking, The Redford Center develops and invests in projects that foster action and strengthen the reach of the grassroots efforts powering the environmental movement. Over the years, The Redford Center has produced three award-winning feature documentaries and more than 40 short films, supported over 150 film and media projects with grants and other services, inspired the creation of 550 student films, and disbursed more than $20 million to environmental film projects, amplifying change-making environmental solutions to millions of people worldwide.