It’ll cost movie-lovers nothing to answer the call of the wild this month.
On five nights over Friday, Feb. 20, to Saturday, Feb. 28, Eckerd College will be showing six environmental films for its annualVisions of Nature/Voices of Nature Environmental Film Festival.
For over 25 years, the festival has brought together film scholars and established and emerging filmmakers from around the world to bring Tampa Bay and the Eckerd College community environmental perspectives through documentary, animated, experimental and feature films.
“Lost Wolves of Yellowstone,” written and co-directed by Thomas Winston screens on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The documentary follows the effort to reintroduce wolves to Yellowstone, 50 years after their eradication from the national park. Led by the late Molly Beattie, the first female director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the re-introduction effort is described in the film as “the greatest wildlife restoration project ever undertaken.”
Winston will hold a virtual discussion following the film, and scholars or directors will lead discussions following each of the other films.
Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature Environmental Film Festival’s lineup includes everything from a short film highlighting Eckerd’s own College Community Farm to an animation film featuring a solitary cat learning to live amongst other animals on a boat (“Flow”).
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This article appears in Feb. 12 – 18, 2026.