Moss Farm

The Moss Farm Film & Arts Invitational brings together filmmakers, artists, musicians, artisans, and educators whose work explores our evolving relationship with land, culture, craft, and imagination.

Presented by Moss Farm, the Invitational features films that illuminate constructive paths forward through creativity, cultural renewal, and working with the living world as a partner. The festival places particular emphasis on solutions-focused storytelling—films that explore regenerative approaches to agriculture, craft traditions, design, education, and community life.

The Moss Farm Film & Arts Invitational is designed as an intimate gathering where filmmakers and audiences can engage deeply with ideas, landscapes, and one another. Films are experienced within a setting that encourages reflection, conversation, and meaningful exchange.

The 2026 edition will take place October 3–4, 2026 at Rhoneymeade Arboretum & Sculpture Garden in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, located in the agricultural valley between State College and the mountains of central Pennsylvania. Rhoneymeade is a historic farmstead and landscape devoted to the arts, featuring meadows, woodland paths, sculpture installations, and a restored 19th-century house and barn that host cultural gatherings throughout the year.

Within this landscape, the festival explores the connections between creativity, land stewardship, and community.

The Invitational welcomes feature films, documentaries, short films, animation, experimental works, music films, and hybrid projects from both emerging and established filmmakers.

Participation in the festival brings filmmakers into a gathering that values meaningful conversation and the role of the arts in shaping regenerative cultural futures.

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A Growing Series of Place-Based Gatherings

Each edition of the Moss Farm Film & Arts Invitational is shaped by its location while welcoming filmmakers and perspectives from around the world.

Moss Farm at Meristem — Fair Oaks, California
Held on the historic former Rudolf Steiner College campus along the American River, this gathering took place within gardens and landscapes cultivated using biodynamic principles. In partnership with the Meristem educational community, the program explored creativity, land-based learning, and neurodiversity while connecting film with art, craft, and nature-based education.

Moss Farm in Montréal — Québec, Canada
Hosted by Institut Pégase-ISAEL and École Rudolf Steiner de Montréal, the Montréal edition highlighted films exploring land use, sustainability, cultural identity, and education, presenting the work of filmmakers, musicians, and artists within Montréal’s vibrant creative community, featuring filmmakers from Canada and around the world.

Moss Farm on the Marsh — Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin
Hosted at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center within the largest freshwater marsh in the United States, this gathering took place during fall migration and explored the relationship between landscape, wildlife, and creative expression. Alongside film screenings, the program included hands-on workshops working with natural earth pigments and botanical inks inspired by the surrounding wetlands.

Together these gatherings form a growing network of place-based festivals connecting landscape, culture, and global storytelling.

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The Wild Arts Guild

The Invitational is presented in association with the Wild Arts Guild, an international community of filmmakers, artists, artisans, musicians, and educators dedicated to regenerative cultural work.

The Guild connects individuals working across disciplines—including film, craft, agriculture, music, architecture, design, and education—who share a commitment to renewing the relationship between creativity and the living world.

Filmmakers selected for the festival become part of this broader creative network exploring new cultural pathways rooted in place, craft, and imagination.

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Who Should Submit

Moss Farm welcomes filmmakers whose work explores:

• land and landscape
• farming, food systems, and regenerative agriculture
• craft traditions and artisanship
• music and artistic practice
• alternative education and learning communities
• architecture, design, and systems thinking
• cultural traditions connected to place
• creative solutions for living in relationship with the natural world

Films that explore innovation, regeneration, creativity, and constructive cultural pathways are especially encouraged.

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Selected Films

Selected films are presented within a program that brings filmmakers and audiences together in conversation around land, culture, craft, and regenerative futures.