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Cinema Verde has been bringing communities together for over a decade to discuss the environmental issues that affect us all. We invite you to join the festivities!

Cinema Verde 2025 Environmental Film Festival

The 16th Annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival is now live with 33 new films streaming at cinemaverde.org. This year’s lineup covers urgent topics like plastic waste, wildfires, and water shortages, with stories from around the world. The goal is simple: to share what is happening and what people are doing about it. Tune into the films at cinemaverde.org and on the Cinema Verde channel on Roku.

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Cinema Verde 2025 Environmental Film Festival

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Cinema Verde 2024 Environmental Film Festival

April 20, 2024

Cypress & Grove Brewing Company

Cinema Verde 2024 Film Festival, April 20-22, Cypress and Grove Brewing, Gainesville, FL. Over 75 premiering films, 30+ Honorable Mentions on Roku. Join in-person or stream as a Cinema Verde member for a sustainable future. Save the date!

Cinema Verde Awards Dinner

April 23, 2023

Passions Field

Come join us for an unforgettable evening at the Cinema Verde Awards Dinner! Retired chef of Leonardo’s 706, Mark Newman, brings back some of the delicious flavors from his iconic international buffet. Tickets for this exclusive event are limited, so secure your spot at the table today.

Sustainable Showcase and Films

April 22, 2023

Cypress & Grove Brewing Company

Come join us as we bring you a Sustainable Showcase and a selection of our 2023 award-winning festival films at Cypress & Grove. This event includes a very special presentation on "Eco-tricksterism" from Director Keil Orion Troisi of The Yes Men!

Ashley Creek Clean Up

April 21, 2023

Ashley Creek

Join Cinema Verde for a day of action and make a difference in your community at our upcoming Ashley Creek Clean Up event!

Cinema Verde 2023 Environmental Film Festival

February 9, 2023

This virtual event is hosted at Cinema Verde

70 films are to be released on February 9, 2023, including six days of environmental filmmaker Q&As and live streaming filmmaker discussions.

Cinema Verde Silent Auction

November 29, 2022

Happy Giving Month! Cinema Verde is launching a fundraising campaign to be able to continue to spread environmental films to the public at a low cost and increase our community engagement through the form of film screenings.

Cinema Verde Giving Tuesday

November 29, 2022

Everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts. Join Cinema Verde in the GivingTuesday movement to help spread kindness and generosity worldwide.

Cinema Verde Asks GNV

August 17, 2022

Cypress & Grove Brewing Company

Cinema Verde is pleased to present another live film screening focusing on local environmental concerns and sustainable solutions. And since we know that those solutions depend on good governance and solid science, we invite all whose names are on the Alachua County Ballot for our August elections to join us and share your thoughts and positions on environmental topics affecting our community.

Earth Day 2022 Celebration

April 20, 2022

Cypress and Grove Brewery

JOIN US WEDNESDAY, 4/20! Earth Day 2022 is coming up to remind us all to protect our planet! Cinema Verde will celebrate by presenting a curated selection of our Award Winning Films to the Gainesville, Florida community. Lounge among friends while you enjoy a beverage from Cypress and Grove Brewery. This is an outdoor event and free for all to join. We look forward to seeing you there! When: April 20, 2022 7pm-10pm. (Films begin at 8) Where: Cypress and Grove Brewery, 1001 NE 4th Street (enter off 10th Avenue)

Cinema Verde 2022 Environmental Film Festival

February 12, 2022

This is a virtual event hosted at CinemaVerde.org

Cinema Verde is looking forward to its 2022 film festival, taking place this upcoming February through online screenings. From spectacular filmmakers worldwide, these stories provide an insightful look into the ecological challenges facing our planet and sustainable efforts to combat them. Ever-growing and ever-expanding, Cinema Verde’s 2022 festival looks to be our greatest and most exciting one yet!

Cinema Verde 2021 Environmental Film Festival

February 13, 2021

This event was hosted online at CinemaVerde.org

2021 was a pivotal moment for Cinema Verde as we shifted our festival into the virtual realm for the first time.

Cinema Verde 2020 Environmental Film Festival

February 13, 2020

Heartwood Soundstage

The 11th annual film festival featured 48 films from 12 different countries. Visiting filmmakers included Co-Director of Wild Florida's Visiting Call, Alycin Hayes.

Cinema Verde 2019 Environmental Film Festival

February 14, 2019

The Hippodrome

With the help of our community we have managed to continue to bring Cinema Verde to the public for 10 years! Literally hundreds of volunteers and interns have made this possible. Please join me in thanking everyone who has helped along the way!

Cinema Verde 2018 Environmental Film Festival

February 14, 2018

Gainesville, Florida

2018 was another great year of friendship and community building!

Cinema Verde 2017 Environmental Film Festival

February 9, 2017

The Hippodrome

This year we bring you 45 films from 14 countries over our four-day film marathon. The films are powerful and shocking, moving and compelling, enlightening and frightening, and sometimes funny and sweet – all focused on the many ways our lives are tightly woven into our environment.

Cinema Verde 2016 St. Augustine

October 21, 2016

The Corazon Cinema and Café

Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival visits our neighbors in the oldest city in America.

Cinema Verde 2016 Environmental Film Festival

February 14, 2016

Gainesville, Florida

We shared another 34 environmental films this year!

Cinema Verde 2015 Environmental Film Festival

February 12, 2015

The Paramount Plaza Hotel

The 6th annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival featured over 30 films and 12 exciting live musical performances over 4 days.

Cinema Verde 2014 Environmental Film Festival

February 14, 2014

The Historic Depot Station

Cinema Verde 2014 featured over 30 films focusing on environmental issues and sustainable solutions, local organic agriculture and a food truck park, a local eco-art gallery, an eco-fair with conscious local business, and 7 live musical performances!

Cinema Verde 2013 Environmental Film Festival

February 14, 2013

Gainesville, Florida

The Cinema Verde Film Festival focuses on community involvement as a solution to the environmental problems affecting us worldwide.

Cinema Verde 2012 Environmental Film Festival

February 24, 2012

Celebrations Catering

Welcome to Cinema Verde, our third annual Environmental Film and Arts Festival. Thank you so much for joining us to celebrate nature and learn more about how we can protect the legacy of our planet, not just for ourselves, but for future generations as well. Our goal is to bring everyone together – no matter ethnicity, religion, age or socio-economic status, because those lines don’t divide us from our mutual need for healthy air, soil, water and lives – to forge a sustainable future for all. Please enjoy this opportunity to learn, share and strategize together.

Cinema Verde 2011 Environmental Film Festival

March 18, 2011

Gainesville, Florida

Cinema Verde 2011 was an event to remember.

Cinema Verde 2010 Environmental Film Festival

February 14, 2010

Gainesville, Florida

Our inaugural festival was such a success that we haven't stopped since! These are the 15 films that started it all.

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Special Events

Cinema Verde 2025 Environmental Film Festival

Past Events