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:

Snow Leopard
Directed by Pema Tseden (China, Tibetan and Mandarin with English subtitles, 109m, 2023)

A television crew, accompanied by a young Tibetan monk, travels to a rural farm where a family argues over the fate of a snow leopard that attacked their sheep. Set in the Tibetan mountains, this fictional film explores the conflict between wildlife conservation and traditional land use and the complex relationship between humans and nature in a landscape fraught with national politics.

This film will feature an introduction and discussion with festival programmers Dr. Nathan Andersen (Philosophy and Film Studies, Eckerd College) and Dr. Katrin Pesch (Film Studies, Eckerd College)