The Portland EcoFilm Festival is the premier ecological film festival in the US Pacific Northwest. Every year we showcase some of the world’s best new films about nature and ecology, environmental justice, frontline communities, and conservation. Our annual Indigenous Voices series features festival selections and award winners that center Indigenous wisdom, accomplishments, stories, and struggles. Our mission is to utilize the art of cinema to create a more inspired, active, empowered, diverse, and connected community of environmental advocates and ecologically minded people.
Filmmakers from around the world submit approximately 150 films to our festival, annually, on many ecological and environmental subjects. We invite organizations working on solutions to connect with our audiences, prioritizing those which serve and represent frontline communities. We also invite filmmakers and films subjects to engage with our audience in dialogue about the films and the issues depicted.
We are a signature program of The Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon’s modern-historic nonprofit movie house.
The 2024 Portland EcoFilm Festival at The Hollywood Theatre
About 1,200 people attended our 2024 festival season, which brought dozens of official selection premieres and special presentations to the big screen at the Hollywood Theatre. Thank you to those of you who attended, sponsored, and shared your films with our audience.
Special thanks to our sustaining sponsor, Crag Law Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental law center that supports community efforts to protect and sustain the Pacific Northwest's natural legacy.
Submit
We are currently accepting submissions of new ecological films (completed on or after December 1, 2023) for consideration for our 2025 festival season. Details are available on our FilmFreeway page, which you can access by clicking the button below.
Join our 2025 Film and Awards Selection Committee
We are currently accepting applications to join our 2025 Film and Awards Selection Committee.
The main requirements are: a passion for and knowledge of cinema and ecology; the ability to articulate opinions about films in (written) english; and a strong desire to participate. People of all ages living everywhere are eligible to apply. The application period is August 5-November 15, 2024. Period of service begins when you are invited to join the committee, and ends around December 15, 2024.
