DCEFF has been the premier Festival showcase of environmental films since 1993. Each March in Washington, DC, we bring the world’s largest green film festival to massive in-person audiences. Since 2020, we have focused on extending our reach beyond DC to the entire world with our virtual Festivals and ever-growing Watch Now catalog. In 2023, we were extremely excited to return to venues across the DC Metro for in-person screenings and events — in addition to continuing to offer virtual programming for our audiences around the world.
DCEFF2024
Festival Dates: March 21-30
“At a time when global tensions are increasingly taut and agenda-setting governing bodies manipulate our fear and anxiety, the Environmental Film Festival doesn’t take a scared-straight approach to sharing its message. It instead aims to inspire.”
–The Washington City Paper
Upcoming Events
2023 Award Winners
DCEFF is proud to honor the most crucial, innovative and inspiring environmental films of the year with our yearly Film Awards. Click to see all award winning films.
Our 2023 Sponsors
A huge thank you to this year's Festival sponsors.
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Our 2023 Donors
DCEFF’s donors make our mission possible. Their support has enabled us to continually expand our offerings and reach more people than ever before.
$100,000+
- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- Farvue Foundation
- Shared Earth Foundation
$50,000+
- Bill and Jane Stetson
$25,000+
- HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
- HumanitiesDC
- Prince Charitable Trusts
- Wallace Genetic Foundation
$15,000+
- Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
- Elva and Lawrence O'Brien Family Trust
- Kaempfer Family Fund
- The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
$10,000+
- Boatwright Foundation
- EarthX
- Grace Jones Richardson Trust
- Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU)
- Hollomon Price Foundation
$5,000+
- Harriett Crosby
- Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation
- Ecoprint, Inc.
- Eventive
- Julia and Richard Moe
- Park Foundation
- Race Forward
- Sally S. and Decatur H. Miller Private Foundation
$2,500+
- Amalgamated Bank
- Catalyst Foundation
- Donna and Joseph Head
- Lynne and Joseph Horning
- Katie McGinty and Karl Hausker
- DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment (OCTFME)
- Van Metre Family Foundation
- Susan Vitka
- Nancy Voorhees
- Gwyn Whittaker, GreenFare Organic Cafe
$1,000+
- Barbara L. Franklin
- Frederick and Diana Prince Foundation
- The Golden Rule Foundation
- Cooby Greenway
- Anita Herrick
- Edina Jennison
- Josie Merck
- Joan D. Murray
- Robert Musser
- Kristin Rechberger
- Susan and David Rockefeller, Jr.
- Dorothy Woodcock
- Whitney Thompson
- Flo Stone
- Helen Strong
- Catherine Wyler and Richard Rymland
$500+
- David Baumunk
- Wendy Benchley and John Jeppson
- Christine Berg and Cyril Draffin
- Susan and Dixon Butler
- Deanna Dawson
- Judith and David Falk
- Anne Emmet
- Jennifer Johnson
- Elizabeth Jones
- Helen McNeill
- Kathleen Mikitin
- Paul Murray
- Gail Ostergaard
- Margaret Parsons
- Robert Pastor
- Robert and Margaret McNamara Foundation
- Deborah Rothberg
- Brooke Runnette
- Gene H. Smith
- Jill and John Walsh
$250+
- Ameresco, Inc.
- Walter and Susan Arensberg
- Barbara Best
- Jessie Brinkley and Bruce Bunting
- Mary Ann Casey
- Saurabh Dalal
- Angela Dailey
- Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
- Leslie and Philip Downey
- Helen DuBois
- Georgetown Garden Club
- Elsa Haubold and Tony Tripp
- Margot Ernst
- Juliet Campbell Folger
- Elisabeth French
- Bruce Guthrie
- Annie Kaempfer
- Wendy Makins
- Gregory McGruder
- Nora Pouillon
- Sally Brooks and William Meadows
- Nicholas Millhouse
- Sharon Anderson Morris
- Louisa Newlin
- Dane Nichols
- Elizabeth Philpott
- Kathleen Sadler
- Alice Sadler
- Mary Gabrielle Sprague
- Maggie Burnette Stogner
- Margaret and John Symington
- Helen Wilkes
$100+
- Helen Carroll
- Rives and Dickson Carroll
- Andrew Clark
- Shelley Cohen
- Celia Crawford
- Isabel and Walter Cutler
- Diane Davidson
- Sarah Dean
- Lesley-Alicia Delahunty
- Janine Despres
- Maggie Dewane
- Emily Fano
- Claudia Ferguson
- Tier French
- Jeff Furr
- Wendy and William Garner
- Solymar Grecco
- Eva Guenther
- Grace Guggenheim
- Gail and John Hanson
- Corbin Harwood
- Anna Hedlund
- Holly Howes
- Edward and Sarnia L. Hoyt
- Sally Lau
- Joanne Lawler
- Carroll Long
- Gerald Lorentz
- Jane Lucas
- Linda Kimmy
- Mary Anne Malahy
- Natasha Metzler
- Mary Lynne Martin
- Patty McGrath
- Bernard Mercer
- Elizabeth Merricks
- Sharon Metcalf
- Louise Micallef
- Virginia Murphy
- Frances Nozary
- Vicki Parker
- Roxanne Paul
- Rondi Pillette
- Jacquelyn Rivas
- Linn Sage
- Mustafa Santiago Ali
- Susan Saudek
- Robert Schackmann
- David Seidman
- Simone Siex
- Jeffrey K. Stine
- Stacy Swann
- Lucy Waring
- Patricia Walk
- Eric H. White
$50+
- Beth Archambault
- Boucie Addison
- Susan Babicz
- Ellen Beahm
- Katherine Benjamin
- Lisa Bierer-Garrett
- Karen Biesanz
- Anne Bodine
- Helene Brecher
- Dawn Carson
- Hope Childs
- Gary Chirlin
- Paula Cohen
- Peter Cohn
- Marianne Comfort
- Edward Conwell
- Morgan Cox
- Mary K. Crow
- Caroline Day
- Jeffrey De Joannis
- Natalie Dickter
- George Draney
- Ryan Drysdale
- Lucia Edmonds
- Nancy Fisher
- Suzana Fox
- Michele Garza
- Ann Gerber
- Cynthia Godes
- Lou Guarino
- Nancy Hadley
- Mary Hanks
- Nancy Hwa
- Steve Kaffen
- Marian Katz
- Christine Kondrasuk
- Leslie Korn
- Linette Lander
- Ana Lojanica
- Juan Luna-Kelser
- Jackie Maruhashi
- Kristie McComb
- Grace McGinnis
- Bibi and Ahmed Meer
- Ashok and Gouri Mirpuri
- Gail Moloney
- Tyrhee Moore
- Ghalia Naseer
- Carol Petrash
- Jim Ross
- Mary Ross
- Royce Sherlock
- Stephen Stahr
- Andrea Steinhauser
- Christine and Don Sylvester
- Torre Taylor
- Carmen Todd
- Maria C. Volpe
- Helen Walker
- Loren Weybright
- Brandy White
- Jed Winer
- David Wooldridge
- Carol Wong
- Mohammed Zaatari
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