Princeton Environmental Film Festival (PEFF)

01/09/2025

SPECIAL EVENT ALERT!
Sustainable Creativity | Inspiring Change through Eco-Conscious Art.

https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/12566876
This will also be the launch of our upcoming invitation for you all to participate in an art and poetry exhibition! (see comments for more details.

A panel of Princeton-area artists will explore how they ensure their creative processes are eco-friendly and aligned with sustainable practices. Their art will be on display and refreshments served.

12/27/2024

Oh what fun!
Robots and films and popcorn, OH MY!
It was so great to spend time with you all~

12/19/2024

A favorite 2024 PEFF Selection Planetwalker (formerly known as 'A Symphony of Tiny Lights')has been shortlisted in the Best Documentary Short category for the upcoming Academy Awards!!!

The film features the story of Cape May's own: John Francis. That said, the story of the Planetwalker begins 'in 1971, when he witnessed a tanker collision and oil spill in San Francisco Bay. It was then that he gave up the use of motorized vehicles and began to walk. He started walking because he felt partly responsible for the mess that washed up on the shore.'

If you missed it you can see it on the LA Times YouTube channel (Link in the comments!)

12/16/2024

TWO very fun Family Friendly events coming up on December 27 for our upcoming screening of The Wild Robot!
https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/12263974
The screening will immediately be PREceded by a self directed art based program to make a robot in our Steam Studio.

Join us!
(according to Common Sense Media this film is appropriate for ages 7+)
(ALSO, there *may* be popcorn!)

In this animated science fiction adventure, an intelligent robot, stranded on an uninhabited island, bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. PG. 1 hour, 41 minutes.

12/05/2024

Uplifting one of our FANTASTIC Princeton partners!!!

We are so lucky to have such an incredible movie theatre *right in town*. And not only are they on main street - but they are an excellent theater with great films and great staff.

Some of our favorite things to do there are the classic summer series like 'Jaws' or kids films on Saturday mornings or the excellent films they offer in partnership with university professors.

AND OF COURSE, they partner with our festival!

Princeton Garden Theatre is definitely one of our favorites!

11/15/2024

Huge congratulations to 'from Princeton' local film makers Eli Obus and Ross Kenneth Urken for their First place award for their film, "Saving Scottish Pearls" from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition.
We had a fan packed screening of the film during PEFF2024.

In the Scottish Highlands, freshwater pearl mussels are a particularly prized part of the environment. Julius Caesar invaded Britain to seize the gems, and t...

11/05/2024

A beautiful short commissioned by the The On Being Project coupled with the words of the poet, Wendell Berry who celebrated his 90th birthday this year.

The Peace of the Wild Things

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry is part of our “Poetry Films” series, which features animated interpretations of beloved poems from our archive. ...

10/27/2024

Do you go to the movies or just stay home and stream?

In a today's NYT newsletter, Melissa Kirsch wrote, "Each movie I saw in the theater, I talked about afterward, with the friends accompanying me, with colleagues the next day. Some of the movies I’ve streamed — some abandoned before completion — I’ve discussed with no one. As the Times critic A.O. Scott wrote in his wonderful essay “Is It Still Worth Going to the Movies?”: “Just as streaming isolates and aggregates its users, so it dissolves movies into content. They don’t appear on the platforms so much as disappear into them, flickering in a silent space beyond the reach of conversation.” I’m willing to wager that no filmmaker ever made a movie hoping or expecting that it would end up beyond the reach of conversation."

Which movies are you talking about?

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10/10/2024

Grateful to Northwest Treaty Tribes Media for making it possible for us to share Fish War with our community on October 14 @ 6:30pm.

Join us!

This feature-length documentary highlights the violent struggle faced by Indigenous nations to exercise their treaty-protected right to harvest salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Registration requested.