13th Annual RVA Environmental Film Festival opens March 10

The RVA Environmental Film Festival will hold its 13th annual festival beginning March 10 and extending through March 21.  Unlike last year’s virtual festival, all films will be held live and in person.

Admission to all films is free and open to the public, thanks to sponsors (Falls of the James Group - Sierra Club, Capital Region Land Conservancy, Vegan Action, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, City of Richmond), in-kind donors and others.

The festival opens March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Science Museum of Virginia Dome with the film Wildcat, and continues March 11 at 9:30 a.m. at the Byrd Theater with the family portion of the festival:  The Lorax, My Garden of a Thousand Bees, and A Life on our Planet, followed by Haibun for an Island that is No Longer an Island, Reflection: A Walk with Water, Built to Burn, Forest for the Trees, and Slay.

On March 12 at 2 p.m., the Byrd Theater will screen Vanishing Insects Spell Trouble for Humans, Newtok, and Nelson County: Lessons Learned. The annual film contest award will follow the films at 5:15 p.m.

Among other screenings are The Falconer (March 13 at 6:30 p.m., Libbie Mill Library in Henrico); Utama (March 14 at 6:30 p.m., University of Richmond Ukrop Auditorium); Nature’s Clean Up Crew (March 15 at 6 p.m., Richmond City Main Library); Youth Unstoppable (March 16 at 6 p.m., VCU Grace St. Theater); The Last Drop & Writing the Land (March 16 at 6:30 p.m., St. Stephens Episcopal Church); My Octopus Teacher (March 17 at 6:30 p.m., Robins Nature Center, Maymont); Mossville: When Great Trees Fall (March 18 at 3 p.m., First Unitarian-Universalist Church); The Great Electric Airplane Race (March 19 at 1 p.m., First Unitarian-Universalist Church); and Meat the Future (March 21 at 6 p.m., North Courthouse Road Library in Chesterfield).

For the latest times and locations as well as details about the films and festival, visit RVAEFF.ORG.

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