Shared Earth Foundation Award
For AdvocacyEstablished for the 2014 Environmental Film Festival as the Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy, the Shared Earth Foundation Award for Advocacy recognizes the film that best inspires advocacy in response to a compelling environmental challenge. The award includes a $10,000 cash prize.
2025 Winner
Out of Plain Sight
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia and Academy Award®-winning L.A. Times Studios, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California.
Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Los Angeles Times journalist Rosanna Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean – and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.
