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Wild and working lands Film festival

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The Inaugural Wild and Working Lands Film Festival, hosted by the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, will be held in Laramie, Wyoming, at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm) on May 5th, 2022. The festival explores the intricate connections between humans and the landscapes where we dwell, work, and play.

The Festival values diversity, justice, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, sound information, and real-world solutions. From our home at the University of Wyoming, we highlight films set in our surrounding ecoregion, including wild and rural areas of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and high desert sagebrush steppe as well as stories from afar that inform our experience in the American West.

What are we interested in?

What is featured in the festival?

The Festival features films that inspire audiences to better understand our current world and work toward a future where people and natural environments prosper together by:

Communicating innovative research,
Highlighting ground-breaking solutions,
Arguing for paradigm shifts in our framing of environmental issues,
Presenting portraits of people, places, environments, and relationships between them,
Raising awareness of emerging issues, or
Sharing indigenous and local ways of knowing.

2022 Festival

Festival Details

Location: Gryphon Theatre
When: May 5th at 7pm Mountain Time, Doors Open at 6:30pm
Individuals that need sign language interpreter services at the event please contact Grace Carr at gcarr1@uwyo.edu or (307)-766-5059 by Monday May 2nd

Awards and Prizes

Top entries will be determined by the film festival committee of judges and will be announced and shown at the festival.
Two additional awards will be given by the Wyoming Migration Initiative and the Biodiversity Institute.

May 5, Program (No Specific Order | Film title - Film Director(s))

The Last Last Hike - Céline François
Cracked - MAHMUT TAŞ
High Plains Wild - Mariah Lundgren
Creating Miracles in the desert - Carol Evans
The Fish & the Flame - Day's Edge Productions
A Flyfishing Refugee - Brian Kelley
Denizens of the Steep - Zach Montes & Dan Gibeau
(RE)CONNECTING WILD - Jake Willers
Elk in Paradise: Rancher, Ecologist, Hunter - Holly Fretwell
Returning Fire to the Land - Lara Tomov
Horse Rich Dirt Poor - Ben Masters & Charles Post
Backcountry Bear Poles - Jeremy Roberts
If We Take Care of the Land - Alyssa Acosta
Game and Fish Presents-Martin Hicks - Chris Martin

Submission Details

Submissions for the 2022 Festival are now closed! Please stay tuned for updates on when submissions will open for 2023!

Wild and Working Lands Film Festival proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests.

Rules and Terms

We will consider films up to 15 minutes in length for the festival. We will offer a virtual screening option for longer selected films following the in-person festival.

The submitter must have received permission (licenses) to use any non-original audio (i.e., music) or video content. Films should be made up of mostly (>90%) original video content.