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Contact: Jeff Kohmstedt, jkohmstedt@prairierivers.org, 217-344-2371 ext. 207
WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS THREATS TO ENVIRONMENT, WORK OF ACTIVISTS
Prairie Rivers Network Brings the Festival Back to Normal Theater for Second Year
NORMAL, IL – Prairie Rivers Network (PRN) will host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on July 10 at the Normal Theater, the second time it will be held in Normal. The films will show the threats to the environment from climate change and pollution. They will also highlight the activists around the globe working to protect our water, heal our land, and inspire change.
“These films cast the threats to our environment in vivid detail,” said Jeff Kohmstedt, Communications and Outreach Coordinator at PRN and the organizer of the event. “Moviegoers will walk away inspired to protect their communities, their water, and the wildlife they enjoy.”
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival will feature nine short films on environmental topics including coal ash pollution, protecting a river and a culture from the effects of building hydroelectric dams, nitrates in runoff, and more. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival was started by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in California in 2003. This is the third year PRN has hosted the festival in Illinois with the goal of spreading awareness of environmental issues.
At Prairie Rivers Network (PRN), we protect water, heal land, and inspire change. Using the creative power of science, law, and collective action, we protect and restore our rivers, return healthy soils and diverse wildlife to our lands, and transform how we care for the earth and for each other. PRN is the Illinois affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation.
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