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During Climate Week NYC, we hosted CFF’s “First Look,” an evening of short films and a panel with filmmakers. Films included: Mirasol (2023, dir. Annalise Lockhart); Humanatee (2023, dir. Ricky Rhodes); Extremophiles (2019, dir. Leah Shore); PNGN DNCE Krill Remix (2023, dir. Davey Harris); and the trailer for the feature documentary CANARY (2023, dir. Danny O’Malley and Alex Rivest, PhD).
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Screening co-hosted with NYU’s Climate Justice and Health Lab and the National Wildlife Federation of the short film Where It Floods: Planting Hope in Coney Island, followed by a panel of participants, filmmakers, and local coastal resiliency professionals.
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Social event for flmmakers, scientists, and climate professionals at our January meetup hosted in collaboration with Climate Tech Cities.
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With an open call in multiple categories—including narrative feature, documentary feature, live action short, experimental short, and animation—the Climate Film Festival offers filmmakers a unique platform to share their stories with a dedicated and engaged audience.
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The Climate Film Club is a new, semi-regular screening series hosted by CFF, presenting short climate films and opportunities for discussion at casual venues throughout the city. Our kick-off event in March features the short film Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go (2022, dir. Sindha Agha).
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Join CFF for screenings and workshops during Earth Week in New York City.
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The Climate Film Festival debuts September 20-22nd in New York City during Climate Week NYC.
THE FESTIVAL
VIEWFINDERS
See climate through a new lens
The Viewfinders program highlights distinct, diverse curatorial voices, each providing their own approach to the question: what does it mean to live in a changing world?
From contemporary gems to lesser-known classics, Viewfinder events feature a dynamic selection of films that showcase the breadth of human and planetary experience.
Presented in venues across the city, these programs form a constellation of perspectives, each organized around a theme selected by individuals from a team of programmers.
OPEN CALL
Bold and innovative cinematic voices
With an open call in multiple categories—including narrative feature, documentary feature, episodic, live action short, experimental short, and animation—the Climate Film Festival offers filmmakers a unique platform to share their stories with a dedicated and engaged audience. From the pool of open call submissions, our jury will select a series of finalists for screening during the festival.
With the open call, CFF provides a platform for a new wave of climate cinema, featuring new filmmakers, emerging voices, and unforgettable films.
EVENTS
Go beyond the screen
Through panels, educational workshops, and industry showcases, CFF builds upon the films themselves to extend their impact. CFF works with local climate community organizations, filmmakers, scientists, policymakers, and writers to spur conversation and action that lasts beyond the festival.
This expanded programming is part of CFF’s mission to rewrite the narrative on climate change, transforming it from an overwhelming topic to a dialogue that can be accessed, discussed, and acted upon. These programs place environmental justice and practical solutions side-by-side with the larger questions posed by climate cinema, aiming not just to raise awareness but also to drive positive, real change.
