CEFF 2023 Festival

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25 films in package
A Crisis Carol
In this "A Christmas Carol" spinoff, Mother Earth teaches Scrooge the importance of caring for our environment by revealing to him Earth's past, present, and future.
A Rally for Rangers
Park Rangers are heroes on the front lines of conservation, yet in many parks across the globe they are underappreciated and underequipped. Using motorcycles, the Rally for Rangers foundation seeks to empower rangers and raise awareness for some of the world’s most remote, rugged and ecologically important places.
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Addressing Inevitability: Composting for a Healthier Earth
This film grapples with the devastating environmental impact of food consumption and how throwing food waste into trash cans instead of compost bins brings us leaps closer to destroying our planet.
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Biochar - Soil's Best Friend
Learn how biochar can help restore our soils and change the environment.
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Buzz: Pollen Nation
Bombus occidentalis, the Western Bumblebee, was one of the most common species found in the western US. Since the late '90s, this species has experienced steep decline. Kellie Hayden volunteers her time to help track and conserve native bumblebee species.
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CIC Environmental Animation
A fun, comical animation on the less obvious causes of climate change.
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Cool For You
This film explains global warming to children in a friendly way! Incorporating different characters and families, animals and plants, children are introduced to CO2, and positive, easy ways to improve our impact on the earth.
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Fighting Fire with Fire
The Nature Conservancy in Montana has been using fire for decades to reduce fuel loads, support rural communities, and protect cultural sites. See how it's done and what secrets lie in the old-growth ponderosa pine galleries.
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Gen Z Mental Health: Climate Stories
Perspectives from Gen Z’ers across the globe, focusing on the spectrum of climate emotions and the ways in which emotional resilience can be found through direct collective action.
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Is This Our Land?
Public lands are auctioned off for damaging private use and fossil fuel extraction. As Americans, should we feel a civic duty to understand the system and protect our great natural lands?
More Than a Route
Follow top climber and ecologist Lena Müller on her Explore: Adventure approach to mountain sports, breaking habits and exploring new paths.
Our Native Lawn
A high school student explores the downsides of traditional grass lawns and charts a pathway toward positive models for the future.
Closed captions available
Plastic Pandemic
COVID-19 has contributed to plastic pollution in Hawaii and globally. Teens discuss ways to avoid single-use plastic items and a global "plastic pandemic".
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Plastic Problem PSA
A press conference is disrupted by a plastic bag.
Plasticnic
A short animated poetry video about plastic consumption in the summer: we seek to enjoy nature while destroying it.
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Pleistocene Park
Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son are gathering any large woolly beast they can get their hands on and transporting them to Siberia. They call their project Pleistocene Park. Their goal is to restore the Ice Age “mammoth steppe” ecosystem in order to avoid a catastrophic feedback loop that would lead to runaway global warming.
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Polar Bear 360
Polar Bear 360 is a fully immersive virtual Explore: Wildlife encounter that brings you nose to nose with the beloved Ice Bear. Learn about how climate change presents ever changing challenges for these bears, and what we can do to help.
Right here. Right now.
Coming of age in Colorado Springs, filmmaker Taylor Saulsbury gives voice to her generation's climate anxieties, creating portraits of resistance and resilience.
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Rise, Fall, Hope
14-year-olds explore ancient human ingenuity, our current environmental dystopia, and the role of creativity moving forward. Their film’s 8 movements are embedded in pieces of rubbish which read like a post-apocalyptic comic book, each pane a piece of trash.
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Stop Pebble Mine
The little-known Pebble Mine project is one of the most significant threats to wildlife and native Alaskan communities.
Sunscreen Standoff
Students use an animated conversation between two sunscreens to highlight the potential impacts of chemical sunscreen on our marine environment.
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The Hungry Heron
This very short film is for children (and their parents) in hopes it will inspire them to care for the environment and the preservation of all wildlife, now and throughout their lives.
The Rock Pool Waltz
During COVID lockdown, a boy’s affinity with nature eases his loneliness and leads to an incredible five month long friendship.
The Sea Turtle Arribada
Witness an arribada (a mass nesting of sea turtles on an Oaxacan beach) that ocean conservation group, WILDCOAST, protects, and see how a small group of dedicated people have a massive impact on an endangered species survival.
Voices of the Grand Canyon
Before the Grand Canyon was a national park, it was the ancestral homeland of Native peoples. But rarely do tourists hear firsthand from modern Indigenous people whose cultures, worldviews, and livelihoods are inextricably tied to the region.
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Films Included:

(Title - duration in minutes)

  • A Crisis Carol - 5
  • A Rally for Rangers - 52
  • Addressing Inevitability: Composting for a Healthier Earth - 4
  • Biochar - Soil's Best Friend - 4
  • BUZZ Pollen Nation - 9
  • CIC Environmental Animation - 3
  • Cool For You - 3
  • Fighting Fire with Fire - 4
  • Gen Z Mental Health: Climate Stories -9
  • Is This Our Land? - 4
  • More than a Route - 20
  • Our Native Lawn - 3
  • Plastic Pandemic - 3
  • Plastic Problem PSA - 1
  • Plasticnic - 2
  • Pleistocene Park - 57
  • Polar Bear 360 - 5
  • Right here. Right now. - 12
  • RISE, FALL, HOPE. - 7
  • Stop Pebble Mine - 5
  • Sunscreen Standoff - 4
  • The Hungry Heron - 2
  • The Rock Pool Waltz - 8
  • The Sea Turtle Arribada - 12
  • Voices of the Grand Canyon - 13


Total Run Time: 253 minutes

This short PSA created by our fall Huliau Environmental Filmmaking Club students, outlines ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has been contributing to plastic pollution globally. The students also share ways in which we can all avoid these additional single-use plastic items and prevent the global "plastic pandemic" from getting worse.

  • Runtime
    3 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Colorado
  • Director
    Justin Pe Benito, Calvin Araki, Esta Smith
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