Outer Banks Environmental Film Festival

11/20/2025

🌿 Looking Back with Gratitude 🌿
This year’s Outer Banks Film Festival brought together filmmakers, community members, and partners to share stories that matter. Creating a space for passionate filmmakers to showcase creativity, perspective, and environmental awareness with their community.

Organized by the Peace Garden Project, the festival reflects our mission to educate communities about the importance of caring for the environment.

We’re grateful to the storytellers who shared their work and to the partners who made it possible:
✨ Dare Arts
✨ North Carolina Black Alliance
✨ Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Series
✨ The Jones | Lewis Fund
✨ The Center for Sustainable Communities

Thank you for helping us connect art, justice, and sustainability in meaningful ways.

10/13/2025

Get your tickets and check out the lineup at https//www.obxeff.com

07/16/2025

Film festival selections are being released this week!

07/02/2025

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for your patience as we finish selecting films for the festival. Decisions will be posted by the 15th.

04/17/2025

Join us for a film screening on April 25th for the Outer Banks Environmental Film Festival. Tickets are going fast and you dont want to miss this event!

Come join us for a sustainable night of fashion, film, and music with Emmy award winning filmmaker Jeff Garner.

01/22/2025

Submissions are open for the 2025 festival!

11/07/2024

Congratulations to this year's film festival winners!

Best Feature Film-Our Movement Starts Here

Best Short Film- Reimagining Queen Nanny of the Maroons

Best International Film- Raid on the Atlantic

Best Indigenous Film- Waya, Saving Our Red Grandfather

Best Film by an Emerging Filmmaker- Blue Glacier: Then and Now

Best Film Highlighting Black Stories- Reimagining Queen Nanny of the Maroons

Best Outer Banks Film- The Ash Wednesday Storm

Best Film Highlighting Religion/Spirituality and the Environment-Mauri

Best Film Highlighting a Hidden Story- Sick-Amour: A Love Story

Director's Choice- Gardening for the Planet

Spirit of the Festival Award- Sick-Amour: A Love Story

Honorable Mention- Giants of the Deep and Man of the Trees

Peace Garden Project

10/18/2024

Hi Friends! Friday 10/18 is my birthday. Some of you have asked how you can help me celebrate. Here are a couple of ways. A generous donor has offered to match all donations to the Peace Garden Project for the next 48 hours. You can donate at https://secure.anedot.com/peace-garden-project-57d4a3b9-944f-440e-925f-890881e34c37/donate You can also get your tickets to the film festival. If you're not close enough to come, you can get donate a ticket for someone else. Learn more about the festival and get tickets at https://www.obxeff.com.
Finally, my Podcast launches on 10/18. Finding Hope in the Climate Crisis is the official Podcast of the Outer Banks Environmental Film Festival. Follow my Podcast and share it with a friend. Thanks for helping me celebrate. Michelle Lewis

Join me in supporting Peace Garden Project

10/10/2024

Get your tickets and see the schedule at https://www.obxeff.com

07/22/2024

We have so many stellar entries this year, and are still working our way through them. An announcement of festival finalists will be released by the end of the month!

05/01/2024

The Early Bird Deadline is today! Get your films in…