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American Conservation Film Festival

American Conservation Film Festival  — March 6-9, 2025

February 24, 2025 Tagged With: American Conservation Film Festival

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The American Conservation Film Festival (ACFF) will hold its 2025 Festival on March 6 to 9 at Shepherd University’s Frank Arts Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Read the Full Story >>

American Conservation Film Festival To Screen 27 Films In March

February 1, 2024 Tagged With: American Conservation Film Festival, In Print Feb 2024

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The 22nd edition of the American Conservation Film Festival will run from March 7 through March 10 in Shepherdstown. The 2024 festival will screen 27 films at the Frank Center on the Shepherd University campus. Read the Full Story >>

American Conservation Film Festival 2023

February 7, 2023 Tagged With: American Conservation Film Festival, conservation, In Print Feb 2023, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown Opera House

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The 2023 American Conservation Film Festival (ACFF) will light up the screen at the intimate and historic Shepherdstown Opera House for three days, (March 10, 11 & 12 — Fri, Sat & Sun) and will spotlight short films that are 40 minutes or less. From among the 300 films submitted from 44 countries, the ACFF Read the Full Story >>

A Long View Of The Landscape

March 1, 2021 Tagged With: American Conservation Film Festival, economic development, editor's note, solar, Storer College

Red barns (such as the one in Meyerstown, above) are an iconic symbol of the rural landscape across the country — testaments to the effort of the individuals who built them, who used them, who maintained them. Preserved seems an odd word to apply to these structures, intended originally to be working components of agricultural operations.  Read the Full Story >>

2021 American Conservation Film Festival

February 26, 2021 Tagged With: American Conservation Film Festival, conservation

Logo for American Conservation Film Festival.

The American Conservation Film Festival (ACFF), now in its eighteenth year, is presenting 48 contemporary films in an online festival format for 2021. Aside from the obvious shift away from in-person venues at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) and Shepherd University, the biggest change to this year’s format is the flexibility of watching any (or all) of the films at any time during the festival dates (March 24-28). Read the Full Story >>

American Conservation Film Festival Observes, Examines, and Confronts in 2018

October 8, 2018 Tagged With: air pollution, American Conservation Film Festival, climate change, film, water pollution

Polluted air and water, mass extinctions, depleted fisheries, shrinking forests, rising temperatures—humans are making a mess of the planet. But all is not lost (at least yet): “Solutions” is the theme of this year’s American Conservation Film Festival. Read the Full Story >>

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