Get Ready for Adventure: PVPLC’s 9th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival Takes Center Stage on March 3rd

Get Ready for Adventure: PVPLC’s 9th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival Takes Center Stage on March 3rd 

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy will present the Ninth Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival for the South Bay community Sunday, March 3, at the Dana Middle School in San Pedro. With beautiful cinematography and stories about remarkable individuals, the films will appeal to all ages and inspire increased awareness about the threats to wildlife and the environment.

This year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival features the conservancy’s special selection of 11 films that will be screened in two-and-a-half hours. The films will take the audience from the East to West Coast in the U.S. and around the world to learn more about conservation, hiking, surfing, aviation and other exciting topics. One of the films, Bridging Fragments, explores the environmental stresses that urbanization and deforestation place on the wildlife corridors that preserve biodiversity, putting many species at risk, including the world’s slowest mammal — the sloth. At the festival, attendees will have the opportunity to meet Sid, a 13-year-old, two-toed live sloth, through the generosity of conservancy supporter Noel Park.

“Sharing this film and the opportunity to see a sloth up close will highlight the value of protecting and creating wildlife corridors, especially in developed areas, like the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where wildlife populations might otherwise be separated by cultivated land and roads,” said Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Executive Director Adrienne Mohan. “At each of our film festivals, hundreds of people have joined us to see these beautiful and powerful stories about passionate individuals caring for the environment. The Conservancy’s supporters and staff share these same passions, and they are the reason we have been able to protect the land on the Peninsula for 36 years.”

The festival will also feature a free photo booth, wine and beer bar and a snack bar with sales benefiting Dana Middle School.

The conservancy expressed thanks to its Wild & Scenic Film Festival sponsor Room & Board, a conservancy corporate partner that provides grants and employee volunteers to help with the conservancy’s restoration activities. Room & Board recently made an extraordinary donation of $50,000 in American-crafted furniture pieces, design services and delivery assistance to help create a new permanent home for the conservancy.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is part of the PVPLC’s outreach and education efforts. The conservancy is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the peninsula’s open spaces, wildlife and natural beauty for the benefit of its communities.

Time: 4 p.m., March 3 (Doors open at 3 p.m.)

Cost: $15 online, and $20 at the door.

Details: www.pvplc.org/calendar-fundraising-events 

Venue: Dana Middle School, 1501 South Cabrillo Ave., San Pedro