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The home of the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, a program of the South Yuba Citizens League, falls in the Yuba River Watershed. Each fall, something extraordinary happens along the banks of the Yuba River and its tributaries. Hundreds of volunteers — from toddlers to retirees, families to fishing clubs — unite for one purpose: to care for the river that runs through the heart of our community. Since 1997, the Yuba River Cleanup has brought people together not just to remove trash, but to build a healthier watershed and a stronger community.
To honor this movement, we’ve curated a short playlist of prior Wild & Scenic Official Selections that highlight creative, community-driven clean-up efforts:
Dear Mother Nature (2021) – Filtering a Plastic Ocean (2016) – The Big Pick (2015)
DEAR MOTHER NATURE
Wyn Wiley (he/him), aka Pattie Gonia (she/her), has made waves over the past year as an environmental advocate drag queen. We follow Wyn as he travels to Hawaii to see first-hand the impacts of careless consumption and plastics on Mother Nature. Wyn meets with scientists, non-profit leaders, volunteers, then rallies the Pattie community to lead a beach clean-up. Ultimately, Wyn partners with sustainable fashion designer, Angela Luna, to create three dresses that personify the plastics crisis.
FILTERING A PLASTIC OCEAN
Microplastics researcher Marc Ward invented a low-cost tool to tackle marine microplastic pollution. The film highlights the problem of toxic microplastics and their effects on marine wildlife and human health while also showing how easily we can all participate in cleaning up our local beaches, and by extension, the ocean.
THE BIG PICK
Rame Peninsula Beach Care wanted to pick up every piece of rubbish from a small cove, sort it, count it and see how long it took to fill up again. This film was made with the local beach cleaning organisation trying to grapple with the amount of marine pollution on their local Cornish beaches. The results shocked everyone involved and the film caught the attention of BBC Spotlight and The Sunday Times with articles in the paper and online.
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