Pagosa Environmental Film Festival slated for Saturday

Photographer Boyd Norton has authored 18 books about photographing our environment. Norton is just one of the photographers featured in “Documerica.”
Photographer Boyd Norton has authored 18 books about photographing our environment. Norton is just one of the photographers featured in “Documerica.”
Photo courtesy Colorado Environmental Film Festival
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The Geothermal Greenhouse Partnership (GGP) is ready for the Pagosa Environmental Film Festival this weekend. 

The Tennyson Building Event Center is the location where film enthusiasts will gather Friday evening at 5 p.m. and Saturday all day starting at 10 a.m.

Tickets are on sale at www.pagosagreen.org. GGP supporters can buy tickets at the door, but seating is limited. Gather up your friends and get your tickets today.

A premiere gala, Friday from 5 to 10 p.m., will welcome the community to support the GGP with a special night of gourmet food, live music with Steve Blechschmidt, art photography with Pagosa Springs Photography Club and two feature-length films, both 2024 award-winners. Tickets are only $60 and all proceeds benefit the nonprofit GGP. 

The doors open at 9 a.m. for Saturday’s full lineup of films that begin at 10 a.m. A food truck and a cash bar will keep guests happy with refreshments all day. 

Here’s the schedule for Saturday:

9 a.m.: Wristband sales continue all day at $10. Premiere Gala wrist-banded guests are admitted all day. Empty seats will be filled.

10 a.m.: “A Reason for Hope”

10:05 a.m.: “Documerica”

11:10 a.m.: “Paddle Tribal Waters (Klamath Youth)”

11:20 a.m.: “True Survivors”

1 p.m.: “Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds”

2:40 p.m.: “A Reason for Hope”

2:45 p.m.: “Native Suns: Sacred Souls (Lakota)” 

3:05 p.m.: “Dark Sacred Night”

3:25 p.m.: “Documerica”

4:40 p.m.: “Paddle Tribal Waters (Klamath Youth)”

4:50 p.m.: “True Survivors”

6 p.m.: “Requiem for a River (New Mexico)”

7 p.m.: “Covenant of the Salmon People (Nez Pearce)”

The GGP’s film festival opens the Earth Day celebration here in Pagosa Springs. The GGP will see you and your friends at the film festival and on the Riverwalk. The GGP is “growing food and community with local energy.”