Officials at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge recently announced they will be holding a new event in the form of a film festival, taking place at the refuge’s visitor center and headquarters complex in Newburyport early next month.
The festival will showcase a diverse selection of award-winning films related to conservation issues from around the world. These films will focus on a range of topics of local, national, and international interest.
The American Conservation Film Festival, which is held during the fall in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, is the inspiration for this film festival. The National Conservation Training Center of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is located there.
There will be a special program during the festival with the premiere of a new documentary about conservationist Rachel Carson on the Saturday evening. Carson had a fondness for national wildlife refuges and, in 1947, wrote an interpretive publication about Parker River. Dr. Patricia DeMarco, a nationally renowned scholar on Carson and a former executive director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association, will introduce the film.
The festival will take place the weekend of March 6 – 8, starting on Friday evening and extending through late Sunday afternoon. All showings are free and open to the public. Poster printing for special events such as this one is an effective method of communicating them to the public.
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