Wild and Working Lands Film Festival

Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources

Inspiring audiences to better understand our current world and work toward a future where people and natural environments prosper together.

Submissions are now open for the 2026 festival! Entries are due by January 30. Find more information on Film Freeway.

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Wild and Working Lands Film Festival

Welcome

From our home at the University of Wyoming, we embrace films set in our surrounding ecoregion—including wild, rural, and urban areas of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and high desert sagebrush steppe—as well as stories from afar that can inform our experience in the American West.

Wild and working lands 2026

Laramie, WY Thursday, March 26, 2026

Gryphon Theatre, 710 E Garfield St
Doors at 6:30, films at 7:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

2026 OFFICIAL FILM SELECTIONS

The Opening Address

By Jess Lowe Chaverri

Mother Range

By Anthony Pavkovich

Carrying Capacity

By Zach Montes

Restoring the Headwaters

By Tom Attwater

The Last Sheepherders

By Kat Fulwider

The Winterkeeper

By Laurence Topham and David Levene

Horses and Highwater: Restoring Tincup Creek

By Paul Lavold

Uncharted Skies

By Halie Cook

Festival Sponsors

The Wild and Working Lands Film Festival brings our campus and community together to better understand our current world and work toward a future where people and natural environments prosper together. We invite you to be part of this inspiring event. For more info about becoming a sponsor please email festival director Anastasia Brady at abrady2@uwyo.edu.

SUMMIT SPONSOR ($4000)

Coming soon

ALPINE ELEVATION SPONSOR ($2000)