For over 25 years, the "Visions of Nature-Voices of Nature" Environmental Film Festival has brought compelling and important films to the Tampa Bay area and the Eckerd College community to raise awareness and promote discussion of matters relating to nature, place and the environment.

Film scholars as well as established and emerging filmmakers from around the world engage the audience in a lively dialogue about the environmental perspectives contained in documentary, animated, experimental and feature films.

Screenings for this year's festival will take place in the Miller Auditorium at Eckerd College with the exception of the March 1 film which will be screened outside at the Eckerd College Community Farm.

Schedule of Events:

Ripples of Plastic
Directed by Chris Langer (US, English, 45m, 2024), preceded by Entangling Horizons, directed by Jackson Willhoit '25 (US, English, 3m, 2024)

An eye-opening documentary exploration of the unseen impacts of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes region, that follows the scientists and activists who are attempting to understand its impacts on human and environmental health and are working to create a plastic-free future. The film will follow the screening of a short experimental documentary on the impact of human debris on ocean environments in the aftermath of a natural disaster, by Eckerd senior Jackson Willhoit ’25.

This event will feature student lobby presentations on our climate present and future before the films and a discussion with director Chris Langer (virtual) after the screening.