Annual outdoors-based film tour returns to Gardiner

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is returning to Southwest Montana’s Gardiner High School for the fourth year in a row on Thursday, September 20th, with films screening at 6pm. Bear Creek Council and Northern Plains Resource Council, a family agriculture and conservation group, have joined forces again in 2018 to present 10 short films that inform, inspire, and ignite stewardship of our land, air, water, and people.
The films featured during this year’s festival illustrate not only the challenges facing our planet, but the work that communities are doing to protect the environment and the places we love. The stories give a sense of place and what it means to be responsible stewards of the earth.
Tickets to this fantastic event are $10, or $12 at the door. Children 12 and younger are admitted FREE with ticketed adult. Advance tickets can be purchased at www.northernplains.org/wsff-tickets or Yellowstone Wild The Gallery and Tumbleweed Bookstore & Café in Gardiner. Doors at 5:30pm. Come learn about what’s in your own back yard – and so much more!
The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL – pronounced ‘circle’) started the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in January 2003 to promote community building within the Yuba Watershed, as well as a way to explore environmental issues through an exciting and influential medium.
SYRCL is a watershed advocacy group that was started in 1983 by a small group of concerned citizens who banded together to fight against several proposed dams. The festival’s namesake is in celebration of achieving Wild & Scenic status in 1999 for 39 miles of the South Yuba River. After roughly three decades, thousands of supporters, and hundreds of active volunteers later, SYRCL is one of the largest single-river organizations in the nation and the Wild & Scenic Film Festival is the largest film festival of its kind in the United States. January’s annual five-day event features over 100 award-winning films, plus speakers, celebrities, and activists who bring a human face to the environmental movement.
The tour allows SYRCL to share their success with other environmental groups nationwide. It is building a network of grassroots organizations connected by a common goal – to use film to inspire activism. The festival’s national partners have joined together to support this campaign. By showing the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival to diverse audiences across the country, SYRCL collectively wants to inspire more individuals to take environmental action.
For further information about SYRCL, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, and a list of this year’s films and descriptions, please visit www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.