Chesapeake Film Festival - Fragile Rivers/Fertile Lands

Chesapeake Film Festival presents Fragile Rivers/Fertile Lands

Join us for the one-day Chestertown Mini-Environmental Festival, co-sponsored by CFF and ShoreRivers that includes two programming blocks, 4-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m., in the historic Garfield Center for the Arts at the Prince Theater. Each block includes three short films and discussions with the filmmakers and environmentalists.

Acclaimed Chesapeake Photographer Dave Harp, who directed four of the films, will be among the speakers. Annie Richards, the Chester Riverkeeper for ShoreRivers, will introduce the evening program and talk about what ShoreRivers is doing to protect and restore the rivers of the Eastern Shore.

4:00 - 6:00PM Afternoon shorts program:

- Nassawango Legacy. A look at one family's multi-generational efforts to protect an enchanting Chesapeake Bay stream and The Nature Conservancy's work to assure that it continues to flourish.
- Search for the Cooper. Led by Upstream Alliance of Annapolis, four teenagers kayak, muck, and bushwhack or six days on an unprecedented journey to discover the Cooper River in Camden County, NJ.
- A River Called Home. Four young women embark on a challenging paddle from the headwaters of the James River in Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay.

7:00 - 9:00PM Evening shorts program:

- A Voice for the Rivers. Visit four of the beautiful, but threatened, rivers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with the dedicated Riverkeepers of ShoreRivers.
- Pop's Old Place. A small livestock farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore relies on pasture-grazing to improve the soil, raise healthy animals and reduce runoff.
- Red Creek Sessions. Take a wild whitewater kayak trip along Red Creek while learning about the unique geology of this West Virginia treasure.

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