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Welcome to the 2025 Jackson Wild Finalist Screening Room!
Explore our on-demand finalist films! Available from September 15th to October 31st!
Finalist Films
This short film about forever unfolds from the POVs of father (max) and son (kip) as they attempt to write a book about what forever means. The father feels overwhelmed by all of the threats to forever, like forever chemicals, and calls an unlikely hero – Mark Ruffalo – to ask for help seeing the big picture.
11 min
A Little Story About Forever
Long ago, red wolves roamed from the bayous of East Texas to the bays of coastal New York. Today, not even 20 remain in the wild—confined to a tiny pocket of habitat in far Eastern North Carolina.
7 min
America’s Wolf
Asia
In the shadows of a Cold War Military depot, a colony of pint-sized predators faces an uncertain future as one owl biologist races to save it from extinction. As a young family of burrowing owls learns to grow up wild, will his scientific discoveries be enough to rescue this fragile population in the wake of a changing planet?
56 min
Burrowing Owls: A Love Story
Chameleon Corridors is a short film set in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. Often overshadowed by popular destinations like Serengeti and Kilimanjaro, these ancient mountains are home to dozens of endemic chameleon species found nowhere else on Earth.
Chameleon Corridors
Narrated and executive produced by Jason Momoa, and interwoven with awe-inspiring footage of the deep’s most dazzling creatures, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between our ocean’s fragile and mysterious ecosystems, and sustaining all life on Earth.
Deep Rising
In the rarefied heights of the western Himalayas, an ancient creature that has featured in folklore and fever dreams for centuries, still prowls.
Denmo
“Energy to Spare,” a seven-minute film from Chemistry Shorts®, uses exploding batteries, bowling showdowns, and electrifying animations to give a primer on how batteries work and explore how scientists are revolutionizing battery technology for the renewable energy age.
Energy to Spare
From the icy desert of Svalbard to the sun-kissed Mediterranean, this six-part wildlife series explores Europe’s most important and fascinating habitats, and meets their most remarkable wild inhabitants.
50 min
Europe: One Continent - Five Worlds
In his Brooklyn basement, Eddy Garabito, or "Father Blue", once boasted the largest collection of endangered Blue Tree Monitors anywhere in the United States. After witnessing the trafficking that fuels his hobby, he's swearing it off for good.
2 min
Father Blue
‘H5N1: Conservation in Crisis’ reveals the devastating impact of avian flu—not only on wildlife but on those fighting to protect it
15 min
H5N1: Conservation in Crisis
Human Footprint
Rugari and his family live on the border of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. During the dry season, hungry lions threaten their livestock and Rugari is faced with a terrible decision - save his livelihood, or listen to his daughter and find a way to live with lions?
59 min
Kuishi na Simba (Living with Lions)
With infections by medicine-resistant superbugs causing millions of deaths each year, a Chilean microbiologist explores the hostile salt flats of the Atacama Desert, in search of extraordinary bacteria that produce natural antibiotics.
21 min
Life Invisible
In 1972, young married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner travel to a remote Channel Island off the coast of California to study western gulls. There, they make a discovery that will change the course of their lives—and echo far beyond the bounds of their research.
28 min
Love Birds
Moklani follows the indigenous Mohana community as they navigate life on the floating boathouses of Manchar Lake in southern Pakistan, a place they have called home for generations.
73 min
Moklani - The Last Mohanas
In Sea to Analine, musician Muha embarks on a poetic quest to capture the hidden voices of the ocean.
6 min
O mar para Analine (Sea to Analine)
ONE LAST FARM is a short documentary about Bristol’s last working farm and its fight to survive.
17 min
One Last Farm
1859. Charles Darwin’s newly-published theory of evolution enrages God-fearing Victorians, whose great-grandparents weren’t monkeys, thank you very much. To prove his theory right, he decides to enlist the help of creatures unlikely to cause uproar: orchids.
28 min
Orchids: Darwin’s Conundrum
What world will we live in tomorrow? This film reveals Nature's astonishing adaptation abilities, facing global warming.
85 min
Our New World
In Our Ocean Table, marine biologist and filmmaker Sonya Lee sets out to rediscover her Korean roots through an ocean lens
21 min
Our Ocean Table
In the heart of Los Angeles, one wild mountain lion captured the imagination of a city - and sparked a global movement. P22 mountain lion.
22 min
P22 The Legacy Lives On
“The lake was our mother, our father. Now, we are orphans.” For generations, the Uru Indigenous Nation had been the inhabitants of the 3,000-square-kilometer Lake Poopó, living on floating islands, hunting and fishing for sustenance, and forming an inextricable cultural bond to its vast waters.
14 min
Qotzuñi: People of the Lake
This story follows best friends Emma, Oline and their faithful polar bear guard dog, Thando, across the tundra to live amongst the reindeer.
15 min
Reindalen
Kiloku, a rhino monitor on a sanctuary in northern Kenya, has a big problem. The population of critically endangered Black rhinos he protects has grown so quickly, they have now run out of space, threatening to turn on each other in a death-match for territory.
83 min
Rhino
In 2015, ecologist Tom Crowther used state-of-the-art techniques to tackle a simple question: How many trees are there on Earth? His answer, 3 trillion, was vastly more than previous estimates.
54 min
Secrets of the Forest
Set in a rapidly changing world, "Snow Bear" tells the story of a polar bear in an unforgiving environment on his quest to find a friend.
12 min
Snow Bear
Host Derek Muller uncovers the mind-blowing secrets of spider vision.
39 min
Spider Vision: Decoding Color
THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST is a wild and unforgettable journey down the mighty Colorado River.
107 min
The American Southwest
George McKenzie Jr. traded the hard streets and violence of New York City for a life photographing some of the most elusive animals in North America for National Geographic. His next mission? Empower kids of color to access their own dreams and to protect the natural world.
16 min
The Book of George
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to decipher the staggering complexity of communication in animals. Could we even use AI to talk to them?
25 min
The Future with Hannah Fry: Could AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Communication?
They have dried up the Hamoon lagoon and blocked the water, millions of fish have dried up at the bottom of the lagoon, and everywhere you look, birds have died from lack of water. 300 villages have been evacuated and the dust storm has spread everywhere.
The Granny & Fishes
This film essay meditates on the last days of old grizzly bears as a window into exploring human attitudes about aging and death.
28 min
The Old Bear
In the forests of Florida’s Panhandle, a father brings his tech-obsessed son on a week-long mission to track an elusive black bear.
107 min
The Paper Bear
Richard Tesore, a 63-year-old entrepreneur, transformed his love for wildlife into action by founding S.O.S Marine Mammal Rescue, Uruguay’s first center dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating marine mammals.
17 min
Tides of Life
In the face of unprecedented coral bleaching, marine biologist Shayle Matsuda draws on the resilience he has had to cultivate as a transgender man to inform his research increasing thermal tolerance in corals.
11 min
Tipping Point
Werk of Nature blends the magic of nature with the global phenomenon of drag culture.
Werk of Nature
A lost eden drowned under Lake Powell re-emerges, revealing the follies of the past and a new way forward for the Colorado River.
35 min
What The River Knows
After coming to the conclusion that the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and biodiversity loss was unacceptable, Pat decided to do something about it. He ditched his lab and began working on the creation of the Impossible Burger: a plant-based meat alternative
Wild Hope: Mission Impossible
In this episode, Elias tells us about his journey to become a pangolin protector, from how he met his first pangolin to his daily work trying to save this species in the Gorongosa National Park pangolin rehabilitation center.
Wild Hope: Pangolin Protectors
In the northeastern part of India, the greater adjutant stork has been considered an ill omen for generations, and the endangered bird has paid the price
Wild Hope: Stork Sisters
YANUNI follows the extraordinary journey of Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon, as she rises from a remote village in Xipaya territory to the political frontlines of climate justice.
113 min
YANUNI
Jackson Wild X Earth Alliance Impact Pitch Finalists
“IYO ANG DAGAT” (The Sea is Yours) explores the deep and complex relationship between people and sharks in the Philippines. Through the eyes of fishermen, park rangers, tour operators, enforcement officers, and conservationists, the film reveals how sharks and rays intersect with daily life—and why now is a critical moment for their protection.
77 min
Iyo Ang Dagat (The Sea is Yours)
In 2020, Brazilian biologist Luciana Leite fulfilled her lifelong dream of visiting the Pantanal – world's largest tropical wetland and a sanctuary to an astonishing array of wildlife – only to confront its worst-ever fire.
62 min
Pantanal
“The lake was our mother, our father. Now, we are orphans.” For generations, the Uru Indigenous Nation had been the inhabitants of the 3,000-square-kilometer Lake Poopó, living on floating islands, hunting and fishing for sustenance, and forming an inextricable cultural bond to its vast waters.
14 min
Qotzuñi: People of the Lake
George McKenzie Jr. traded the hard streets and violence of New York City for a life photographing some of the most elusive animals in North America for National Geographic. His next mission? Empower kids of color to access their own dreams and to protect the natural world.
16 min
The Book of George