The Human Family, organizers of the North Dakota Film and Arts Festival, recognizes that Human Rights and the environment are intertwined. To help bring awareness to those connections and wide-ranging issues, we are excited to announce screenings dedicated solely to Environmental Rights.
The North Dakota Human Environmental Rights Film Festival's (NDERFF) mission is to educate, engage, and facilitate discussion around local and worldwide environmental rights, animal rights, or climate change topics through the work of filmmakers and artists.
The NDERFF invites filmmakers worldwide who have produced documentary, narrative, or experimental films that engage in environmental rights-related topics or themes to submit their work to the festival.
While the festival rules out films that contain unacceptable inaccuracies of fact, films are not barred based on a particular point of view. Films from both new and established filmmakers will be presented. International filmmakers are welcome to submit their work. Films for the festival will be selected via Jury, with equal concentration on environmental rights content and artistic merit.
In 2023, selected films and filmmakers will have the opportunity to have their work screened at theatres throughout North Dakota. All films selected will be presented theatrically.
If you have any questions about the festival or work submission, please email NDERFF@human-family.org
Each category within the festival will host a juried competition for "Best of...". Additionally, an executive committee will award a "Best of Show" award annually to recognize a work with high artistic and informational value. Additional awards may be given within each category at the judgment of the jury (i.e. best cinematographer, editing, sound, etc.).
