2024 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

This year’s Festival kicks off on Thursday, March 7 at noon with a Free Hike at the Yankauer Nature Preserve and closes with a Community Dinner at Alma Bea on Sunday, March 10 at 6:30pm. To attend, you can purchase a full festival pass for $64 which will give you access to all 27 films* or you can purchase single tickets at $14 for each screening/block.

Students 18 and under as well as college students with ID are admitted FREE to all screenings with a ticket. To obtain a student ticket, use the code Student24 at checkout. Please be aware that not all films are appropriate for all ages.

*A full festival pass does not include admission to the Community Dinner at Alma Bea. You can  purchase an additional ticket for $35 and enjoy delicious food and great company.

QUICK SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, MARCH 7

Yankauer Nature Preserve

Free Hike at Yankauer Nature Preserve

12pm
FREE
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Biodiversity Lecture

Free Lecture – Appalachian Biodiversity and Resiliency in the Mountain State

3pm
FREE
RESERVATIONS ENCOURAGED

Healy

SHORT FILMS BLOCK 1

Three Films • 71 min
4:30pm
$14

Total: 71 minutes

Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut

Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut

Feature • 52 min
6:30pm
$14

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

Nuclear Now

NUCLEAR NOW

Feature • 105 min
7pm
$14

Earth Soul Leah Rampy

FREE BOOK TALK

Earth & Soul with Leah Rampy
In partnership with Four Seasons Books
4pm
Free with Reservation

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

Serengeti

FAMILY FILMS

Two Films • 45 min
1pm
$14

Total: 45 minutes +

AFTER THE FILMS: Meet Judy’s Creek Filmmaker Jeremy Monroe, Founder of Freshwaters Illustrated and Project Next Gen – filmmaking workshop for kids.

Python Huntress

SHORT FILMS BLOCK 2

Five Films • 58 min
2:30pm
$14

Total: 58 minutes

AFTER THE FILMS: Q & A with Python Huntress’ film subject Donna Kalil, Everglades Avengers Team Leader and Python Elimination Specialist and meet Vanishing Oasis filmmaker Jaxon Derow.

The Quest to Save Parasites

SHORT FILMS BLOCK 3

Five Films • 58 min
4pm
$14

Total: 58 minutes

AFTER THE FILMS: Meet Batsies filmmaker Elizabeth Unger and The Code filmmaker Neil Losin.

Deep Rising

DEEP RISING

Feature • 85 min
6:30pm
$14

SUNDAY, MARCH 10

Faces of the Cloud Forest

SHORT FILMS BLOCK 4

Four Films • 57 min
1pm
$14

Total: 57 minutes

AFTER THE FILMS: Learn about Straw Bale Construction with Jeff Feldman, formerly of Greenpath Consulting, a green building consulting firm seeking to support others in walking a greener path upon the planet and meet Spear. Spatula. Submarine. filmmaker Shannon Morrall.

The Last Ranger

SHORT FILMS BLOCK 5

Four Films • 56 min
2:45pm
$14

Total: 56 minutes

AFTER THE FILM: Q&A with filmmaker and actor David Lee, winner of ACFF’s 2024 Green Fire Award.

Food Inc., 2

FOOD INC., 2

Feature • 94 min
5pm
$14

Alma Bea

Community Meal and Gathering

Alma Bea • Shepherdstown
6:30pm
$35

THE VENUE

FRANK CENTER THEATER

Frank Center for the Arts on
the Shepherd University Campus
260 University Drive
Shepherdstown, WV 25443

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