Entries by American Conservation Film Festival
Tiger, Tiger
DC Environmental Film Fest Presents at ACFF 91 min Filmmaker: George Butler Spotlighting the tiger as the most charismatic animal on earth, this adventure-conservation film takes the audience to the Sundarbans region on the border of India and Bangladesh. Known as one of the most dangerous places on Earth, this tidal mangrove forest may be […]
Unbranded
106 min Filmmaker: Phillip Baribeau 3,000 miles, 16 wild horses and 4 men are the raw ingredients of an outrageous plot. To demonstrate the value of wild mustangs, these men adopt, train, and ride their horses from the Mexican border to Canada through the wildest terrain of the American West. Unbranded is a soaring tale […]
Vultures of Tibet
21 min Filmmakers: Russell O. Bush, Annie Bush Sky Burial, a private ritual where the bodies of Tibetan dead are offered to wild griffon vultures, becomes a tourist attraction in Chinese-modernized Tibet. This intimate window illuminates an ideological conflict often hidden to the outside world, confronting the potential for oppression in the act of observation. […]
White Earth
ACFF Student Award Winner 20 min Filmmaker: Christian J. Jensen Thousands of desperate souls flock to America’s Northern Plains seeking work in the oil fields. White Earth is the tale of an oil boom seen through unexpected eyes. Three children and an immigrant mother brave a cruel winter and explore themes of innocence, home and the American […]
XBoundary
6 min Filmmaker: Ryan Peterson An open-pit mining boom is underway in northern British Columbia, Canada. The massive size and location of the mines, at the headwaters of major salmon rivers that flow across the border into Alaska, has Alaskans concerned over pollution risks that threaten multi-billion dollar fishing and tourism industries. 3:45 pm Sunday […]
Zapovednik – When Man and Tigers Meet in the East
US Premiere! 17 min Filmmaker: Emmanuel Rondeau Almost extinct in the 1930s, the Siberian Tiger made an extraordinary come back when the Soviet Union closed its borders, dramatically reducing the trade of tiger parts between Russia and China. From the 500 animals present in the Far East at the end of the Perestroika, only 350 […]
Summer is Here! Festival Selections & Plans Are Heating Up!
The ACFF selection committees are watching, rating, and selecting the very best of our film submissions and solicitations to bring you an exciting, educational, and compelling film festival this fall. We are also eagerly planning our supplemental programming – guest speakers, filmmaker discussions, family programs, and film workshops – to give our audience an exceptional […]
Thank You! Ground Operations Party a Winner!
What a wonderful evening we had celebrating film, farming, food, and our veterans at the Ground Operations Movie and Dinner Party, a spring fundraiser for ACFF! Due to the contributions of a great number of people, we enjoyed a wonderful film, a delicious dinner, a fun and fruitful live auction, and an altogether delightful and […]
We’re Having A Party!
Download press release here. The American Conservation Film Festival (ACFF) will celebrate spring with a movie and dinner party on April 11 featuring the film Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields, its filmmaker, and special guests involved with farming and veterans’ issues. Dulanie Ellis, the filmmaker of Ground Operations, and Edgar Hercila, a farmer-veteran, […]
