CFF @ LA Climate Week - See you there!

Screenings in Atlanta and LA, the Hollywood Climate Summit Awards, grant opportunities, and more!

Marisa Guerrero, Alec Turnbull, and J. English Cook

Apr 02, 2026

CFF kicked off a busy Earth Month at the Super South Summit in Atlanta earlier this week! Next up: we’re heading out west for our first Los Angeles pop-up event… and we want to see you there!

In this Newsletter:

🎟️ Get Free Tickets for CFF’s LA Climate Week Pop-Up
🎬 Event Recap: Film Screening at Super South Summit in Atlanta
🏆 Call for Entry: Hollywood Climate Summit Awards
🎥 CFF Final Open Call Deadline: May 15
🌱 Opportunities & Events

🎟️ CFF Goes Hollywood: Pop-Up at LA Climate Week

Are you in Los Angeles? We want to see you at our very first Los Angeles pop-up event!

Organized as part of LA Climate Week in partnership with Stranded Astronaut Productions and Earth Calling, we’ll be hosting a free screening of a selection of short films from CFF ’25 that demonstrate the range of what climate storytelling can look like—from narrative to documentary to experimental filmmaking. The screening will be followed by a filmmaker panel discussing the importance of art and culture in creating change.

📆 When: Thursday, April 16 from 6:30-9:30pm PDT

📍 Where: Solotech Los Angeles, 6700 Santa Monica Blvd Entrance at 1017 N Las Palmas Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038

🍿 What’s Playing: Our (free!) screening block includes these films:

There Will Come Soft Rains (2025, dir. Elham Ehsas)
Sayu-Limpia (2025, dir. Greer Fawcett)
The Instability of Clouds (2024, dir. Zazie Ray-Trapido)
Alheio (2024, dir. Pedro Paulo Araujo)
Dreamland (2024, dir. Tehya Jennett, Maxfield Biggs)
Qotzuñi (2024, dir. Gastón Zilberman, Michael Salama)
The Last Garden (2024, dir. Eloise Jenninger)

🎙️ Panel Discussion: After the films, stay for a filmmaker Q&A featuring some of the directors of the screened films: Greer Fawcett, Tehya Jennett & Maxfield Biggs, and Zazie Ray-Trapido. Moderated by Heather Fipps, Executive Director, Hollywood Climate Summit.

Get Tickets Now!

🎬 CFF Shorts at Super South Summit

Earlier this week, CFF popped up in Atlanta for Super South: Summit for Sustainable Innovation and Impact! We screened a selection of short films from our 2025 festival in a program called “Super Shorts: Films from the 2025 Climate Film Festival.”

Learn More About Super South

🎬 Super Shorts: Films from the 2025 Climate Film Festival featured the following films:

The Last Garden (2024, dir. Eloise Jenninger)
Portrait of a Seaweed Farmer (2025, dir. Jeff Siebert)
Kelp Currency (2025, dir. Michael Stewart)
How to Change the World | SAGE (2025, dir. Nicholas Mihm)
Qotzuñi: People of the Lake (2024, dir. Gastón Zilberman, Michael Salama)
Herders at the Edge (2024, dir. Delgerzaya Delgerjargal)

🏆 Hollywood Climate Summit Awards

We’re proud to amplify the new Hollywood Climate Summit Awards, which just launched in partnership with Jackson Wild! Submissions are now open.

The awards recognize climate and nature storytelling across narrative film, scripted and unscripted television, video games, comedy specials, podcasts, digital series, branded content, and impact campaigns.

A distinguished judging committee evaluates work using the HCS Climate Context Framework: climate or nature should be meaningfully woven into the work. It doesn’t need to be the central subject.

Winners will be recognized at a joint awards ceremony in Los Angeles this November alongside the Jackson Wild Media Award recipients.

Submit Your Project

Regular Deadline: June 22, 2026. Projects completed after June 1, 2024 are eligible. Full category details and submission can be found here.

🎥 Extended Open Call Deadline for CFF ’26: May 15

Are you still considering submitting your film to CFF? Are there people in your network with films to submit? You still have time! But the clock is ticking… May 15 is our final deadline.

Submit Your Film Today

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