Friends of the Norwalk Islands' Wild and Scenic Film Festival

March 15, 2013, Friends of the Norwalk Islands is host to the Wild & Scenic Film Festival with another incredible selection of films to change your world. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival draws top filmmakers, celebrities, leading activists, social innovators and well-known world adventurers to Westport, Connecticut. The theme for the 2013 festival is "A Climate of Change". Along with our usual line-up of beautiful, engaging and eye-opening films, we will have a particular focus this year on climate… Show more change, as well as highlighting the change makers who are creating a more livable future.
Considered one of the nation's premiere environmental and adventure film festival's, this year's films combine stellar film-making, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation. Festival-goers can expect to see Award winning films about nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture, Native American and indigenous cultures.
This year's selections will not only take audiences to some of the most remote and beautiful places on the planet, but introduce them to the magnificent animals that inhabit these places and the courageous individuals who are working to protect and preserve both for future generations. The films instill a deep appreciation and a sense of wonder for the natural world that surrounds and supports us.

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