Friends of Butte Creek Online Wild and Scenic Film Festival

The Friends of Butte Creek Online Wild and Scenic Film Festival is on Friday, November 20. This event is in honor of the living resident salmon in Butte Creek, who swim from the Pacific Ocean to Butte Creek in June, swim in place, without eating all summer long, and then spawn in November. If you love salmon, this event is for you.

All 12 short films are streamed virtually in HD. Watch on your laptop, tablet, home computer, or your big screen TV. Support our local restaurants and Friends of Butte Creek, pick up food and enjoy a film festival evening with your family in the comfort of your home. Include a donation when registering to be entered to win one of the giveaways.

All donations support FBC’s restoration efforts on Butte Creek, as well as the water rights endowment for the salmon.

Find out more about our salmon, when charismatic executive director Allen Harthorn hosts the film festival.

New Zealand filmmaker Karthic SS will join to talk about making Sniper, the story of former ranger Leith Thompson and his dog Sniper who is trained to track and rescue injured endangered Yellow-eyed Penguins and to find their nests for tracking and safe-keeping.

We are also delighted to have Northern California filmmaker Matthew Ritenour attending whose film Hammer Dam shows local Harold Hammer making the choice to blow up a dam on his own property to open up his creek for salmonid migration.

Guests will have the chance for a live chat with each one of them, right after each film. Guests will also have the chance to see the films any time up to six days after the event, which means you can make the Friends of Butte Creek Online Wild and Scenic Film Festival a part of your 2020 Thanksgiving.

The festival received phenomenal donations that will be available by live auction, including signed books by Jennifer Jewell, Gregory Crouch, Dr. Benjamin Madley, Melina Watts.and a set of all six books by Carl Safina.