"We Are Guardians" Hits NYC! Reserve Your Seat Now 🎟️

Plus: our London Climate Week recap, spotlight on Seaweed Stories, & filmmaker opportunities 🌿

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Jul 08, 2025

Summer is here and the countdown to CFF 2025 is on—and we’re kicking it off with a NYC premiere you don’t want to miss, a powerful film spotlight, and plenty of opportunities for filmmakers and film lovers alike. Whether you’re developing a new narrative or looking for your next must-watch, there’s something for you in this week’s roundup.

In this Newsletter:

Reserve your tickets for the NYC Premiere of We Are Guardians
Recapping CFF x London Climate Action Week
Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Early Bird Submission Deadline
Climate Film Spotlight: Seaweed Stories
Opportunities and Events

🎥 NYC Premiere: We Are Guardians — Inside the Fight to Protect the Amazon

📍 Where: Angelika Village East, 181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY

📆 When: Friday through Thursday, July 11- 17, with special Q&As at select screenings

🎟️ Tickets: Reserve your tickets here

We’re excited to invite you to the NYC theatrical release of We Are Guardians! This award-winning documentary—directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio—follows Indigenous forest guardians in Brazil who risk everything to protect the Amazon.

Join us for three premiere events featuring post-screening conversations with Indigenous leaders, filmmakers, and changemakers on the frontlines of environmental and human rights defense. Special guests include Puyr Tembé, Indigenous leader and protagonist, Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of Pará, Brazil (host of COP30); Fisher Stevens, Academy Award-winning producer, actor, and director; Chelsea Greene & Rob Grobman, filmmakers; and Steven Donziger, environmental and human rights attorney.

In addition to these special events, there are five showtimes per day from July 11-17, so this is NYC’s chance to experience the film on the big screen—don’t miss out and tell your friends!

Watch the trailer here.

🌎 Recapping London Climate Action Week

Usually repping climate cinema in NYC, we were thrilled to bring the Climate Film Festival spirit across the Atlantic for this year’s London Climate Action Week!

Our takeaways? Climate narrative is thriving in the U.K., and we need more of it to meet the moment. A few highlights: catching a screening with Netflix and Climate Spring at the BFI, panels from Solutions House and Creatives for Climate, and chats with filmmakers from around the world.

We also hosted a few events of our own, from an underground party with @messymessywomen, where we screened selections from our experimental program in our first gallery program, to a showcase of three films on the water crisis in the Himalayas at @xandwhyspace with @earthflicksandchill.

Big love to everyone who joined us across the pond, and onward to CFF 2025!

🎞️ Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Submissions are Open!

Our friends at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival have opened film submissions for their 24th annual festival in February 2026! WSFF features environmental and adventure films from around the world that illustrate the earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment.

The event welcomes the submission of docs and narrative shorts and features—especially those that embrace the annual theme: “Mobilize.”

Early bird deadline is July 18. Learn more and submit your film here.

🪸 Climate Film Spotlight: Seaweed Stories

New release alert! Check out Seaweed Stories, a vibrant, global look at the wonders of seaweed and some of the extraordinary stories and unique characters whose lives have been entangled by this often overlooked marine plant. Narrated by Forest Whitaker and directed by Jake Sumner, the full 30-minute film is out now, streaming exclusively on Leonardo Dicaprio’s YouTube channel. Click here to watch.