Real Stories. Real Conservation. From the People Living It.

The Colorado Conservation Film Festival brings together hunters, filmmakers, and conservationists to share what stewardship actually looks like in the American West.

This isn’t a traditional film festival. It’s not a hunting expo. It’s not a fundraiser with a film screen in the corner.

It’s a gathering built around the stories that don’t make the news — the ones told by the people who are actually out there. Hunters, land stewards, wildlife managers, and the filmmakers following them into the field.

Every film in this program was made by someone living the work. Every person in the room is here because they care about what happens to the land and the animals on it.

For Attendees:

Come Watch. Be Part of It.

Conservation isn’t just policy or headlines. It’s decisions made at dawn, relationships built over seasons, and land managed by people who’ll never be famous for it.

This is where those stories get told — on screen, in community, with people who understand them.

For Filmmakers:

Your Work Deserves an Audience That Gets It.

No submission fee. No gatekeeping. Just a platform built for films that reflect real time in the field.

Submit your work and it gets promoted through Origins Foundation channels — whether or not it makes the curated program. If it’s selected, it screens live in front of an audience that actually lives this life.

• No submission fee
• All submitted films promoted through Origins Foundation
• Top films screened live at the event
• Curated program, controlled runtime — your work is protected

We are thankful for our sponsors below:

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation was built on the principle that wildlife belongs to the public — and that stewardship is a shared responsibility.

This festival exists to reinforce that idea through story. Film is the medium. Conservation is the purpose.