IN-PERSON Registration

Note: all in-person registrations also include full online access to all films for the duration of the festival. If you do not plan to attend in-person, you need only register for online access to see ALL films and panel sessions.   

Noticing Nature - Stories of Resilience in Unlikely Places

Learn more about this year's programs on the EFFY website. 

WILD in the Garden State

What happens when typical suburban lawn is replaced with native plants? Shot over ten years on smartphones and a GoPro Camera, WILD in the Garden State documents gardening mis-steps, lessons and experiences that go far beyond replacing a rectangle of lawn. It’s a story of connecting to the natural world in suburban New Jersey.
 

American River

Mary Bruno spent her childhood along one of the most polluted waterways in America. Decades later, she returns to kayak the river of her youth and tell its story.

American River is a new 86-minute documentary film that follows Ms. Bruno and guide Carl Alderson on a 4-day, 80 mile adventure down the Passaic River, from its pristine source in a wildlife refuge to its toxic mouth in Newark Bay. The river’s amazing history, geology and ecology are revealed as the kayakers navigate challenges, travel through urban landscapes and head towards the industrial disaster that has poisoned the Passaic for the past 60 years.
 

Broken Wings

Broken Wings is the story of a one-winged American black vulture named Adonis, and the two women in his life: Jayne, an Arkansas waitress who has fed him for 10 years, and Ann, her 80-year-old British roommate. Can a bird who devours the dead inspire the living?
 

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