Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Thursday, February 4th
6pm - 9pm
Doors open at 5:30
The Crest Theatre
1013 K St., Sacramento CA 95814

Tickets:$10,
Special ECOS Membership and ticket $25

Film list and descriptions now available on the Wild & Scenic page of the ECOS website.
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North America’s Largest Environmental Film Festival comes to Sacramento.

Save Our Sandhill Cranes is hosting the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival On Tour in Sacramento on February 4th, 2010 at the beautiful Crest Theatre: A benefit for the
California Heartland Project, the regional conservation vision of Habitat2020, the Conservation Committee of ECOS.

Come see beautiful films from around the world, learn about local conservation efforts, and have the chance to win some great prizes from our sponsors!

Wild & Scenic On Tour brings together a selection of films from the annual festival held in January in Nevada City -- beautiful films from around the planet that highlight issues, provide solutions and give a call to action. The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival was started by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in 2003. SYRCL is sharing their success as an environmental group with other organizations to bring the festival to over 90 communities nationwide. It is building a network of grassroots organizations connected by a common goal of using film to inspire activism. With the support of their National Partners: Clif Bar, Tom’s of Maine, Osprey Packs, Patagonia and Sierra Nevada Brewing, the festival can reach an even larger audience in tour venues coast to coast.

The festival is a natural extension of the host, Save Our Sandhill Cranes. SOS Cranes is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining open space habitat and the conservation of the California Central Valley's Sandhill Crane populations through education, outreach, and community activism. SOS Cranes has chosen the congruent, but larger, effort, the California Heartland Project, to be the benefactor of the proceeds earned by the Sacramento Wild & Scenic Festival. The California Heartland Project seeks to create a connected network of parks, preserves, and conservation easements on working farms and ranches--creating access to open space for education and recreation, protecting the unique biological diversity found in the Sacramento Valley, and conserving our agricultural heritage.

While Sacramento has taken huge steps beginning to implement smarter regional planning practices of how and where we should grow, we haven’t developed a comprehensive responsible plan for where we should not grow. SOS Cranes, ECOS, Habitat 2020 and the CA Heartland Project hope that these beautiful films from around the country and the world will inspire Sacramentans to action on this critical local issue.
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Please contact ECOS with any questions. We hope you will join us in inspiring local individuals to get involved in conserving the wild and scenic places close to home.
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Most tickets can be purchased in advance and the day of the show (unless sold out) at Tickets.com and The Crest Theatre Box office. The Crest Box office hours are Mon-Thu 4:30-8:00 p.m., Fri-Sun 12:30-8:00 p.m.

For more information go to: www.caheartlandproject.org

ECOS, Matthew Baker, (916) 444-0022, habi...@ecosacramento.org
SOS Cranes, Mike Savino, (916) 446-1392, www.soscranes.org
The Crest Theatre, (916) 44-CREST, www.thecrest.com
The Wild &Scenic Festival, www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org
SYRCL, www.yubariver.org


ECOS: The Environmental Council of Sacramento
909 12th St. ste 100, Sacramento, CA 95814
916 444 0022, www.ecosacramento.net