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Causes: Environment, Environmental Education
Mission: The redford centers mission is to transform pressing social and environmental issues into hopeful, solution-based content that drives action and positive change.
Programs: Clean energy innovation project. Using our established documentary storytelling expertise and leveraging the redford brand and networks, the clean energy innovation project is developing an expansive communications platform for this clean power movement. At the center of the effort is our film, happening. , which will premier on hbo in early 2016. Film production is underway and we are planning a robust public engagement and impact campaign to accompany the films release. The film and impact campaign is a 3-year, $1. 5 million effort.
colorado river initiative (raise the river & watershed). The colorado river initiative includes the raise the river and watershed projects. Raise the river is a coalition effort comprised of the redford center and five other u. S. And mexican ngosenvironmental defense fund, nature conservancy, national fish and wildlife foundation, pronatura noroeste, the sonoran institute. The redford centers education and advocacy efforts on behalf of raise the river are centered on the award-winning, redford center-produced documentary watershed, which has been screened more than 400 times in a dozen countries, has been selected to run at more than 46 film festivals and won numerous awards, had its broadcast on pivot tv this past spring and has been picked up by several educational and online distributors. Thanks to watershed and the redford centers media efforts, raise the river continues to raise awareness about the threats to the colorado river and its delta, offering solutions and hope for the water future of the american west.