"Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival

02/12/2026

The 2026 Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature Environmental Film Festival poster is available for download! Please spread far and wide, we're always excited to see it out in the wild.

06/18/2024

The schedule for the upcoming 2025 festival will be announced at the beginning of the Spring semester, in early February.

The dates for the 2025 festival are as follows:

FEBRUARY 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 AND MARCH 1, 2025

02/13/2024

The complete lineup for the 2024 Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature Environmental Film Festival has been posted on our website at

Environmental film scholars and filmmakers gather in Florida to raise awareness and promote discussion of matters relating to nature and the environment.

02/08/2024

The lineup for the 2024 "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival has been announced! Our website www.environmentalfilmfest.com will be updated soon, but in the meantime, here are a few things to look forward to during the opening weekend of the festival:

Thursday, Feb. 22 - the festival begins at 7pm in the Miller Auditorium of Eckerd College with a short film about fungi and films by current and former Eckerd College students about birds.

Friday, Feb. 23 - a screening of Animal Kingdom, a French film about a world in which people are slowly turning into animals

Saturday, Feb. 24 - a screening of Hollow Tree, a documentary about three teenagers coming of age in Louisiana, exploring their perspectives on climate change. Its director, Kira Akerman, and one of the young women from the film will be here with us to lead a discussion.

See you there!

Environmental film scholars and filmmakers gather in Florida to raise awareness and promote discussion of matters relating to nature and the environment.

10/27/2023

The dates for the 2024 "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival will be:

Feb 22-4, & Feb. 27-March 2 (all 7pm to roughly 9:30pm)

The actual lineup won't be announced until likely the end of January, or the first week in February, 2024. Stay tuned!

08/24/2023

Congratulations to Patricio Guzmán! We have shown his films Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button at the "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival.

Veteran filmmaker Patricio Guzmán was announced today as the 2023 recipient of Chile’s National Arts Prize in the Audiovisual and Representation category. The jury “unanimously resolved to award the 2023 National Award for Representation and Audiovisual Arts to the filmmaker, screenwriter, rese...

08/22/2023

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04/11/2023

Reviews are coming out for festival favorite How to Blow Up a Pipeline - now beginning its theatrical release - and they agree with us that it's an explosive and engaging film.

What could have been a dour exercise in climate moralizing turns out to be an explosive lesson in screen chemistry

03/07/2023

If you enjoyed the Environmental Film Festival, come back for the International Cinema Series! This Friday's film EO, with its focus on a remarkable animal, makes a perfect transition from environmental film to international and arthouse film.

This Friday 3/10 the Spring 2023 season of International Cinema at Eckerd College continues with EO. 7pm in Miller Theater. Free and open to the public. We'll see you there!

The complete slate of Spring 2023 films can be found on our website: https://www.eckerd.edu/international-cinema/

02/24/2023