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Filmmakers! Submissions are open for our 2022 Amer

Filmmakers! Submissions are open for our 2022 American Conservation Film Festival. Details about deadlines, dates, awards, prizes and more are at filmfreeway.com/acff

📷 @BertieGregory at work. His film Wild_Life: Resurrection Island screened at our 2021 Festival.

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We are pleased to announce that Dennis Liu, PhD, h

We are pleased to announce that Dennis Liu, PhD, has recently been elected the new President for the American Conservation Film Festival.

Dr. Liu is a nationally recognized expert in science education with a passion for helping diverse audiences engage in scientific inquiry and thinking. Currently, Dr. Liu is Vice President of Education for the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and the Half-Earth Project. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Liu directed the production of educational media at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for two decades. In his role as Executive Director of HHMI’s Tangled Bank Studios, he was executive producer and editorial advisor on over a dozen film projects for theatre, broadcast television, Large Screen, and digital science programs aimed at the general public. Dr. Liu understands the creative drive and teamwork it takes to make great media and is passionate about the power of diverse media to stir emotions, inspire fresh thinking, and rally action. Although his formal scientific training is in neuroscience and genetics, he is keenly interested in biodiversity, ecology, and conservation.

"I love that ACFF celebrates conservation writ large, revealing the natural world and how people interact with it in all its complexities. It's important that Conservation is in our name. It means more than just appreciating our world; it's looking at ways to save and change it positively. We feature the best talent and bring moving, funny, motivating stories to a loyal regional audience. It's critical that we're looking at ways to broaden and diversify that audience. Before joining the board, I was involved in ACFF workshops supporting professional learning for media makers. It's an important differentiating focus we have as a small festival, and I'm keen to look at other opportunities to support and engage diverse and developing media-makers, and to showcase media that's harder to find on mainstream distribution platforms,” Liu says.

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Grateful shout-out to the Allemall Foundation, an

Grateful shout-out to the Allemall Foundation, an ACFF sponsor since 2017! Their support has given us the ability to provide cash awards to emerging filmmakers in our Pitch Panel Contest as well as increase the amount of cash awards for filmmakers in our five award categories. Thank you, Allemall Foundation!

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DEAR MOTHER NATURE screened at our 2021 Festival a

DEAR MOTHER NATURE screened at our 2021 Festival and brought so much joy. You will cheer and you will cry. Watch the 30-minute @Wondercamp.co film by Tim Kressin today and be sure to follow @pattiegonia.

Wyn Wiley (he/him), aka Pattie Gonia (she/her), has made waves over the past year as an environmental advocate drag queen. We follow Wyn as he travels to Hawaii to see first-hand the impacts of careless consumption and plastics on Mother Nature (or as Pattie says, “Mother Natch”). Wyn meets with scientists, non-profit leaders, volunteers, then rallies the Pattie community to lead a beach clean-up. Ultimately, Wyn partners with sustainable fashion designer, Angela Luna, to create three dresses that personify the plastics crisis. Watch on vimeo.com/379361749 or on the Wondercamp.co site #watchnowwednesday

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Meet Emmy-winning director and producer for @Grizz

Meet Emmy-winning director and producer for @GrizzlyCreekFilms, Eric Bendick, this #MakerMonday. His work is an exploration of connectivity, conflict, intersection, and balance among the human and natural world. Bendick has led film expeditions to the Florida Everglades, the Grand Canyon, the Great Bear Rainforest, the Alaska Range, and Yellowstone NP. He has been awarded a Webby, a Wildscreen Panda Award, and the IWFF Best Broadcast Feature Award.

Bendick's film Chasing Ghosts was a selection of our 2021 Film Festival. The film captures stunning footage of Florida's wildest wetlands and the feats researchers and team took to identify the pollinator of the ghost orchid for the first time. The link to the 15-min film is in Bendick's bio @bendicci or Vimeo.com/531825168

#filmmaker #conservationfilm #floridawetlands #ghostorchid #endangeredspecies #pollinators #docfilm #documentary #environmentalfilm #filmfest #acff2021 #chasingghosts

This community is greatly enriched by the generosi

This community is greatly enriched by the generosity of the Nora Roberts Foundation, whose focus is to support local (MD-WV) organizations dedicated to literacy, children’s programs, arts organizations, and humanitarian efforts. We are very fortunate to have their enduring support. Thank you, Nora Roberts Foundation!

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Hello! It's #WorldOceanDay! Maybe YOU made a film

Hello! It's #WorldOceanDay! Maybe YOU made a film about ocean conservation that you would like to submit to our next Festival -or a film about an entirely different subject that touches on conservation! Either way, submissions are open for our 2022 American Conservation Film Festival. Details about deadlines, dates, awards, prizes and more are at filmfreeway.com/acff

📷 Filmmaker, @MalaikaVaz. Her film, Peng Yu Sai, screened at our 2021 Festival.

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It's #makermonday! Filmmaker, Maru Hernández, is

It's #makermonday! Filmmaker, Maru Hernández, is a Mexican art director with a curious mind, collaborative spirit and a multidisciplinary drive that has led to the development of unique, creative, and visual concepts for an array of projects, ranging from film and video campaigns to immersive VR/AR experiences and product design. A MA student at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, Hernández's student film, CORAL LIGHTS, screened at our 2021 Festival. @marumoradart

Coral reefs are some of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystems built by small yet amazing creatures. One quarter of our ocean's life depends on them, and they depend on us. Coral Lights is a film created to inspire people to deepen their commitment to the natural world. Watch the five-minute short today (and don't forget, tomorrow is #WorldOceanDay) at marumorada.com/coral-lights

#studentfilm #conservationfilm #corallights #coralreefs #coralconservation #protectoceans #protectsealife #filmmaker #filmfest #worldoceansweek

ACFF has existed and grown largely due to the supp

ACFF has existed and grown largely due to the support of The Campbell Foundation. Since 2009, the Foundation has been the primary source of funding for ACFF and, after all these years, is “letting us fly.” We sure will miss their support but are forever grateful for getting us to a place where we CAN fly. Thank you, Campbell Foundation!

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