2021 WCFF Schedule & Tickets

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All Access Film Festival Pass:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5119346

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Wednesday, October 20
 
Cinema Village Theater
22 East 12th Street & University Place
Tickets $15 in advance
$25 at the door (if available)

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Series 21

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Advanced Tickets:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5233375

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Beavers without Borders
Nina Constable, Producer & Director

16 minutes
Country: United Kingdom | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/602149529

SeaBird
Conor Ferris, Producer & Director
20 minutes
Country: United Kingdom | North America Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/602153720

The Land of Griffons
The National Film & Television School
Riccardo Soriano, Director

10 minutes
Country: Italy | World Premiere
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/602157446

The Great Atchafalaya Basin
Jim Wilmer, Producer
Mark Knight, Director

9 minutes
Country: USA | North America Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/602161002

Terns Operation
Fung Hon Shing, Producer & Director
9 minutes
Country: China | World Premiere

Operación Mohor
Luis Navarro, Director
Almudena  Palominos, Producer

8 minutes
Country: Western Sahara | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/602168854

Hide and Seek
Nawin Kumar Tiwary, Producer & Director

7 minutes
Country: India | North America Premiere
 

Ghost Ponds
Amanda Sosnowski, Producer & Director

12 minutes
Country: United  Kingdom | World Premiere

Elk in Paradise: Rancher, Ecologist, Hunter
Kat Dwyer, Producer

12 minutes
Holly Faetwell, Producer & Director
Country: USA | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/602172304

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Kala Wewa

Thivanka R. Perera, Producer & Director

9 minutes

Country: Sri Lanka | World Premiere

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Series 22

3:00 - 5:00 pm

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Advanced Tickets:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5239034

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Fishing Smarter: How new technology can help our oceans Thrive

Leslie Von Pless, Director

Environmental Defense Fund

20 minutes

Country: USA | World Premiere

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Living with Lions

Wild Elements

Geoff Luck, Producer & Director

Whitney Beer-Kerr, Director

10 minutes

Country: Kenya | World Premiere

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Trees for Tamarins

Wild Elements

Geoff Luck, Producer & Director

Whitney Beer-Kerr, Producer & Director

12 minutes

Country: Columbia | World Premiere

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Beyond the Boma

Wild Elements

Geoff Luck, Producer & Director

Whitney Beer-Kerr, Producer & Director

11 minutes

Country: Kenya | World Premiere

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Harmony not Harm

Wild Elements

Geoff Luck, Producer & Director

Whitney Beer-Kerr, Producer & Director

11 minutes

Country: India | World Premiere

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D'Yaira - Brave Jaguar

Daniel Mideros & Jamie Garcia, Producers

Juan Alfonso Reece, Director

28 minutes

Country: Ecuador | North America Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/606897988

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Series 23

6:00 - 8:00 pm

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Advanced Tickets:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5241627

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Bridging Troubled Waters

Ran Levy-Yamamori, Producer & Director

78 minutes

Country: Israel | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/610088827

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The Heartbeat: The Salmon and People Project
Smithsonian Institution
Molly Dodge & Isabella Roden, Executive Producers
Danny Schmidt, Producer & Director
10 minutes
Country: USA | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/625628757

 

Panel discussion with Dr. Diana Reiss, Dr. Roger Payne

Ran Levy-Yamamori and Courtney Vail

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Series 24

8:30 - 10: 30 pm

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Advanced Tickets:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5223007

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Blood Scales
Alessio Bariviera, Producer
Paolo Sodi, Director

60 minutes
Country: Cameroon | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/596829170

Shaba
Gaby Bastyra, Producer
Ami Vitale, Director

12 minutes
Country: Kenya | World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/536867690

Leopard Legacy
Will Steenkamp & Kurt Mayer, Producers
Will & Lianne Steenkamp, Directors

52 minutes
Country: Zambia | North America Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/578880815

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* IMPORTANT NOTICE *

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* All attendees MUST bring a mask and show proof of COVID vaccination in accordance to

the City of New York guidelines and theater ownership. No exceptions.

 

Please arrive ten minutes prior to the start of the program.

 

Seats that are not filled at that time may be may be released and sold to a waiting list.

** Schedule of films and speakers subject to change prior to and during the film festival **

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