Environmental Filmmaking
Filmmaker Residency Program
From 2021 to 2025, the Woodstock Film Festival, in partnership with White Feather Farm and with support from the Lozen Foundation, hosted a filmmaker residency devoted to environmental storytelling, sustainability, and social impact.
Set on a 66-acre organic farm in the Hudson Valley, the residency offered filmmakers time, space, and mentorship to develop narrative and documentary projects rooted in ecological awareness and lived experience. Residents lived and worked together, immersed in land, food systems, and seasonal rhythms, while engaging in rigorous creative development with acclaimed filmmakers and industry advisors.
Over five years, twenty-five filmmakers participated in the program, bringing forward projects that explored climate change, environmental justice, food systems, Indigenous sovereignty, diaspora, human rights, and the future of life on a changing planet. The residency fostered a creative environment where storytelling and land stewardship informed one another, grounding cinematic practice in place, community, and care.
The program’s legacy lives on through the films it helped shape, the artists it supported, and a model of environmental filmmaking that values attention, responsibility, and relationship — to story, to land, and to one another.
Program History
