Festival Data:

• Established: 2003
• Genre: Documentary (click to see)
• Attendance: 1800
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 52
• Total Number of Films Screened: 23
• # of Shorts Screened: 12
• # of Features Screened: 11

• Has Panels

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

The American Conservation Film Festival is an annual event held in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, a vibrant arts community 70 miles west of the nation's capital. The American Conservation Film Festival provides an exciting and engaged audience experience and venue for a diverse range of conservation films that rarely receive a wide showing.

The American Conservation Film Festival is always inspiring because accepts film submissions that address a wide range of issues and stories from locations near and far. Last year's films took the audience from the Arctic north through the festival's own backyard in Appalachia and down into the tropics. The stories addressed dedicated people saving their communities and endangered wildlife, as well as finding innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems. American Conservation Film Festival programs films of all lengths that focus on the interactions between people and the environment, and lifestyles influenced by natural surroundings and a conservation ethic.

**THERE IS NO FEE TO SUBMIT TO THIS FESTIVAL**

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.conservationfilm.org/ filmmakers/ submission_form.html