The Wild and Scenic Film Festival isn’t happening until January 2016 but this beautiful selection from the 2015 event demonstrates what organizers aim to achieve by gathering top filmmakers, celebrities, leading activists, social innovators and well-known world adventurers to Green Valley, California each year.

With shorts like Common Ground- about the fight to preserve our iconic western landscapes for future generations – they strive to inform, inspire and explore solutions to heal the land and people who inhabit it.