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Welcome to the 13th annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF)!

Film has the power to awaken us to the world around us, educate us on important issues, and inspire us to act. For newcomers and returning attendees alike, one of the best parts of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival is that we are an intimate, local festival with a global impact! We are informal and friendly and try to match our audiences with films that will make a difference in their lives – right here in Colorado.

Join us this year as we proudly feature over 60 films from around the globe. These films will take you from the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado to the forests of India and help audiences gain a deeper understanding of issues ranging from climate change and a cleaner energy future to the survival of wildlife species and society moving toward zero waste.

2019 Highlight Reel
  • We are screening our 500th environmental film, Offshore, by student filmmaker Jenna Miller!
  • We feature our youngest ever filmmaker at only 6 years old, and his film The Color of Our Earth.
  • We have 18 first-time filmmakers and a host of veteran filmmakers including Susan Kucera and Jeff Bridges presenting Living in the Future’s Past as our closing night film this year. 
  • We have movies from 6 countries and several World and Colorado Premieres!
As you watch these films, please remember that they represent someone’s point of view. Some movies represent several perspectives while others unapologetically portray a specific message or personal statement. These filmmakers are all passionate and care deeply about helping audiences gain a foothold on difficult issues facing our world. Take advantage of this opportunity to watch the films and interact with the creative people who make these movies. These passionate directors care deeply about the craft of storytelling and are zealous in their dedication to showing us the issues that affect us every day.

We hope you will use these films as a starting point. Take each film as an opportunity to kindle further exploration into the complexities of the natural world and our place in it. If something inspires you, get involved and start making a difference!

You can learn more about specific issues in this year’s program, at ceff.net, and at the EcoExpo, a great place to meet local organizations working to solve today’s issues and make change.

Enjoy as the Colorado Environmental Film Festival takes you on a journey to experience our natural world at its finest. Welcome to the thirteenth year of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival!


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Thursday, February 21 • 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Opening Night Film Screening and Awards Ceremony

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Opening night of the festival celebrates thirteen years of bringing the best environmental films in the world to Golden, Colorado. We are excited to host our annual Community Night honoring our host city and the amazing businesses and non-profit organizations that make Golden a great place to experience our annual event! The Golden City Council and the Golden community made sustainability its top priority starting in 2007 and that commitment continues today.

Emceeing the evening is Jacob Smith, a Golden resident (and past Mayor of Golden), activist and filmmaker!
Check out this year’s line-up!

*7:00-9:30pm – Screening of three fun short films and our feature film Hearts of Glass, directed by Jennifer Tennican, and the Film Awards Ceremony
 
“For me, HEARTS OF GLASS represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to share a story of innovation and possibility unfolding in my backyard. I've lived and worked as a filmmaker in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for over 15 years, mining local history. When I saw a sleek three-story glass box go up on a sliver of land in town, I turned to face the future. My focus became Vertical Harvest (VH), a for-profit social venture integrating cutting-edge hydroponic agriculture with employment opportunities for community members with disabilities. VH is an ambitious and risky experiment addressing the timely and pressing issues of sustainable local food production and the need for meaningful, competitively paid jobs for people with disabilities. HEARTS OF GLASS captures the interwoven trajectories of people and plants during the dynamic first 15 months of the greenhouse's life. I hope it will inspire other innovative projects across the country and around the world.
                         -Jennifer Tennican

2019 AWARD WINNING FILMSCheck out the 2019 CEFF award winners! This year the winners will be announced during the opening night festivities. Winning films were selected in the following categories:
  • Best of Fest
  • Best Feature Film
  • Best  Short Film
  • Best Youth Film
  • Spirit of Activism
Please see award insert for a list of our 2019 award winning films!

NEW! A portion of the donations made during community night will be shared the Hearts of Glass partner non-profit Slow Food in the Tetons!
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Films
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Alaska Thaw

Alaska Thaw is the 2018 Winner of the Witnessing Change Video Competition. Filmmaker Bjørn Olson’s short film uses images of the people and landscape of his home state of Alaska to create a haunting film that elicits the connection between history, memory, and landscape, and questions... Read More →
avatar for Hearts of Glass -- A Vertical Farm Takes Root in Wyoming

Hearts of Glass -- A Vertical Farm Takes Root in Wyoming

Cutting-edge food production meets social good in an ambitious experiment to provide year-round produce to a mountain town, while employing community members with disabilities.
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The Color of Our Earth

A 6-year-old's plea to protect the ocean -- the sea birds, the sharks and ocean-life in the midnight zone.
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The Living Plant

The future is here. Every once in awhile, a product comes along that changes everything. A revolutionary product that increases your productivity, creativity, health, well-being - gorgeous to look at, perfectly designed for the work space of the future. NatureRX introduces The Li... Read More →

Thursday February 21, 2019 7:00pm - 9:00pm MST
FOSS Theater (3rd floor) 710 10th Street
  Film Screening