Social Media Winner
When photojournalist Pete Mcbride and author Kevin Fedarko set out to hike the entire length of the Grand Canyon, they learn the hard way why only a handful of humans have pulled off the feat.
Turning Environmental Awareness Into Action Through Films and Emerging Media
35+ FILMS • 50+ IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES • SCREENINGS • PANELS • MUSIC • YOUTH PROGRAMMING
Upcoming Events
Livestream Starts
Fri May 8, 2020
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Purchase tickets starting Thursday, May 7.
EarthxFilm Festival 2020
Award Winners
Best Feature Film
My Octopus teacher
Award – $5000
Director:
Pippa Ehrlich
Director:
James Reed
Best Short
THE LOVE BUGS
$3000
Director:
Allison Otto, Maria Clinton
Impact Award
MOSSVILLE: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL
$2000
Director:
Alexander John Glustrom
Impact Award
THE GREAT GREEN WALL
$2000
Director:
Jared P. Scott
Impact Award
AKASHINGA: THE BRAVE ONES
$2000
Director:
Maria Willhelm
Impact Award
CURRENT SEA
$2000
Director:
Christopher Smith
Earth Catalyst
ADAPTATION
$1500
Director:
Alizé Carrère
Earth Catalyst
RAISING KHAN
$1500
Director:
Melissa Lesh
Creative Storytelling
FERRYMAN AT THE WALL, NOBODY DIES IN LONGYEARBYEN, THE RIVER IS ME
$1000
Director: David Freid
Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, XPERIENCE REALITY
EarthXR returns to inspire audiences to explore the heart and soul of nature through audiovisual journeys across the globe and beyond.
With our most diverse global lineup to date, EarthXR highlights the adventurers and change-makers healing the planet and solving the greatest environmental challenges—from The Grand Canyon to The Amazon.
Immerse yourself with indigenous communities using ancient knowledge to protect the world’s greatest biodiversity, NASA astronauts monitoring climate from space, and scientists creating resilient future cities and using AI to protect rainforests.
Join the rescue teams on the frontlines protecting endangered species – walk with ocelots and pangolins, swim with manatees and gather with gorillas.
See the world from the depths of the sea, the tallest trees and the edges of outer space – all through AI, immersive art, sonic journeys, augmented, mixed and virtual reality.
Coming 2020
Victory Park
Dallas, TX
An Eco-Star-Studded Evening of Elegance
The Statler Hilton
Saturday, September 26, 2020
6:30PM - 11:00PM
An eco-star-studded evening of elegance that will celebrate progress, hope, innovation and a global shift toward a more sustainable future for all. Proceeds from this event will go towards year-round educational activities and environmental awareness.
What would YOU do to protect our planet?
Be a Hero. Join the League.
Go FIFTY for 50
It’s the Ultimate Challenge for those who want Lasting Change.
5 Pledges x 10 Actions = 50 Ways to Protect our Planet.
EarthxFilm Spring 2020 Youth Film Competition
The Planet911Challenge in collaboration with Instagram and Creative Visions has closed for submissions.
Congratulations to the winners:
- Grand Prize Winner Myleena Ebron from Lake Highlands Highschool with “Let’s Save It”
- Impact Winner Zeena Amajidi from Brighter Horizons Academy with “No Planet B”
- Social Media Winner Luther Kavishe from Liboru Secondary School/Unite Africa Foundation with “Unites Hummingbird Campaign”
- Most Motivated Award Winner: Lake Highlands High School
- Most Motivated Runner Up to Brighter Horizons Academy
Click on any of the following links to see the Grand Prize Winning Film, Impact Award Winner, Social Media winner or All Finalists.
Check back soon to find out about our next Planet911 Film challenge and other EarthxFilm Youth Opportunities.
The Planet is Still Calling You! Will you answer the call?
Even if you missed the Planet911Challenge you can still join the EarthxFilm Youth Reports team and become a Planet911 Reporter.
2020 Youth Film Award Winners
EarthxFilm Youth Reports
EarthxFilmYouth Reports is a video series produced by EarthxFilm for the virtual EarthxFilm Festival (April 22-27, 2020) celebrating the 50th anniversary Earth Day. EarthxFilmYouth Anchors (ages 10-22) will have the opportunity to interview environmental experts, climate activists, and planet heroes through Zoom. Planet911 Reporters (ages 10-22) will submit short videos showcasing various environmental issues impacting their community to be included in the virtual EarthxFilm Festival showcase. Environmental experts will have the opportunity to be interviewed and to share their knowledge with our EarthxFilmYouth Anchors.
Some of our initial reports include interviews with youth activists like Taegen Yardley and youth from One Up Action, Earth Guardians, March For Science, Zero Hour, The Story of Plastic Filmmaker Deia Schosberg and Perfect World Foundation Co-Founder Lars Jacobsson. Here is a list of some of our EarthxFilm Youth Reports created for EarthxFilm 2020.
Find a detailed description of each segment and more information about the youth who have participated to date.
Be a part of the EarthxFilmYouth Reports team as a Planet911 Reporter.
EarthxFilm Internships
EarthxFilm offers internships to high school students in summer and year-round to college students. Internships follow the school semester and college students must earn college credit. High School students receive volunteer service hours. To find out about internship opportunities at EarthxFilm, please take a look at the description for the most appropriate internship for you and apply below.
College Internships High School Internships EarthxFilm Internship Applications
EarthxFilm Sponsors
Our sponsors play a vital role in bringing our environmental awareness efforts to life through their generous support of the EarthXFilmFestival. With the generosity and involvement of sponsoring businesses and organizations, the EarthX community is able to further the mission of creating solutions and promoting innovations for safeguarding the future of our planet.
Thank you to our sponsors and partners
EarthxFilm Festival 2019 Award Winners
In 2018 EarthxFilm handed out cash prizes totaling $37,000 to winning filmmakers with a portion of those funds going directly to the environmental organizations and efforts that the films themselves explored or profiled.
Best Feature Film
COOKED:
SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE
Award – $5000
What’s the best way to prepare for a disaster? In today’s era of mega-storms, raging wildfires and record-breaking floods, that question is on the minds of many. In a film adapted from Eric Kinenberg’s book HEAT WAVE: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, director Judith A. Helfand takes viewers on a journey from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave to the extreme weather and the politics of disaster that define today’s modern era, posing the question: What if a zip code was just a number and not a life-or-death sentence?
Director:
Judith Helfand
Jury Awards
Earth Catalyst
THE CLIMATE
STORY LAB
$4000
Directors:
Patricia Finnerman
Jeff Orlowski
Best Short Film
UNIONTOWN
$3000
Director:
Fraser Jones
Impact Award
SEA OF SHADOWS
$2000
Director:
Richard Ladkani
Award Beneficiary
Elephant Action League
Andrea Crosta
Impact Award
GHOST FLEET
$2000
Directors:
Shannon Service
Jeffrey Waldron
Award Beneficiary
Labor Rights Promotion Network
Patima Tungpuchayakul
Creative Storytelling
WILDLAND
$1000
Director:
Alex Jablonski
Audience Awards
Special Mention
Best Feature Film - Tie
THE RIVER AND THE WALL
$1000
Director:
Ben Masters
Best Feature Film - Tie
WATSON
$1000
Director:
Lesley Chilcott
Best Short Film
THE ROAD TO THE PHOTO ARK
$1000
Director:
Josie Swantek Heitz
Special Mention
KIFARU
Director:
David Hamdbridge
Special Mention
DETROIT HIVES
Director:
Palmer Morse
Special Mention
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Director:
Rory WT
Audience Awards
Best Feature Film - Tie
THE RIVER AND THE WALL
$1000
Director:
Ben Masters
Best Feature Film - Tie
WATSON
$1000
Director:
Lesley Chilcott
Best Short Film
THE ROAD TO THE PHOTO ARK
$1000
Director:
Josie Swantek Heitz
Special Mention
Special Mention
KIFARU
Director:
David Hamdbridge
Special Mention
DETROIT HIVES
Director:
Palmer Morse
Special Mention
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Director:
Rory WT
“EarthxFilm Festival is a place where you might run into Kevin Sorbo on the ‘green carpet’ or Buzz Aldrin in the restroom.”
Did You Miss a Film You Wanted to See at the EarthxFilmFestival 2019?
Catch them here:
The American Farm
The Black Mambas
Chasing Monsters
A Letter to Congress
Earthrise
Grizzly Country
Paris to Pittsburgh
A New View of the Moon
Renewal: Think Like a Scientist
The River and the Wall
Films Screened at the EarthxFilm Festival 2019
Sonic Sea
Beneath the vast blue expanse of the ocean, marine life depend on sound for survival, prosperity and communication. And collectively, sea animals create a vast symphony that fills the deep blue each day.
Tungrus
There are free-range chickens and then, there is Tungrus, a type of rooster that roams around an Indian apartment causing chaos and crapping indiscriminately.
Tigerland
Tigerland, an elegiac homage to tigers, weaves together two stories of tiger conservation. The first took place first half a century ago in the jungles of India, the second is unfolding today in Russia’s Far East.
Watson
There is no one in the environmental movement like Captain Paul Watson and Watson smartly and deftly tells his singular story.
Under the Water Family Friendly Shorts
Efforts to preserve our waterways.
FESTIVAL EVENTS & PROGRAMS - 2019
EarthxFilm Festival 2018
Award Winners
In 2018 EarthxFilm handed out cash prizes totaling $37,000 to winning filmmakers with a portion of those funds going directly to the environmental organizations and efforts that the films themselves explored or profiled.
Best Feature Film
Unfractured
Award – $5000
Canadian filmmaker, writer and educator Chanda Chevannes is passionate about social change. Her hopeful documentary, UNFRACTURED, follows biologist and mother Sandra Steingraber as she reinvents herself as an outspoken activist and throws herself into an environmental war that many believe is unwinnable. It’s about fighting for something you believe in with your whole heart.
Director:
Chanda Chevannes
Best Feature
BIRD OF PREY
$3000
Director:
Eric Liner
Impact Award
PERMAFROST NOW
$2500
Director:
Stash Wislocki
Impact Award
CHASING THE THUNDER
$2500
Co-Director:
Marc Levin
Impact Award
CHASING THE THUNDER
$2500
Co-Director:
Mark Benjamin
Special Mention
ALBATROSS
Director:
Chris Jordan
Earth Catalyst
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
$2500
Director:
Matthew Testa
Earth Catalyst
GROUNDED
$2500
Director:
Gabrielle Piamonte
Creative Storytelling
THE LAST HONEY HUNTER
$2000
Director:
Ben Knight
Best Short
THE CURVE OF TIME
$3000
Director:
Jordan Manley
Best Short Film
DITCH THE VAN
$2000
Director:
Mallory Cunningham
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