$10 in Advance
$10 Day of show 
$20 Admission + membership (Includes a one-year membership to Indiana Forest Alliance)

Wild & Scenic On Tour brings together a selection of films from the annual festival held the second week of January in Nevada City, CA. “The films tell a story about our planet, highlighting issues, providing solutions and giving a call to action,” says Tour Manager, Susie Sutphin. “Their collective energy empowers communities to initiate conversations that can bring about compromise and collaborative efforts that positively impact our wild places.”

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. The festival’s namesake is in celebration of achieving Wild & Scenic status for 39 miles of the South Yuba River in 1999. They celebrate their 8th annual festival in January 2010 in Nevada City, CA. The 3-day event features over 125 award-winning films and welcomes over 80 guest speakers, celebrities, and activists who bring a human face to the environmental movement. 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 film festival brings a community together. “Film is an artistic language that crosses political and social boundaries and offers a place for diverse perspectives to intertwine and mingle,” says environmental activist Lesley Adams of Medford, OR. “Film is a wonderful medium with which to bring divergent interests together around universal issues and discover that we have more in common than our perceived and historical differences suggest.”

Features at the tour venue in Bloomington are focusing on the theme of food. For example, Greenhorns by Severine von Tscharner Fleming, focuses on the new zeitgeist many 20- and 30-somethings find themselves creating in a new world of agriculture, sustainability, and economics. The festival is a natural extension of Indiana Forest Alliance’s work to inspire people to act on behalf of the environment. “Focusing on food and local efforts on sustainability is a great theme to complement the work that Indiana Forest Alliance does to promote the sustainability of Indiana’s natural ecosystems—the forests,” says Rhonda Baird, Director of Indiana Forest Alliance. “The wild and scenic forests of Indiana need to be restored, and they can be complimentary with efforts such as those captured in the films we are presenting. The film festival is one of the most inspiring and uplifting events coming to Bloomington and we are proud to be a part of it.”