On Thursday, Nov. 14, the Whiteside Theater in downtown Corvallis will be hosting the 2024 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, a celebration of environmental activism and love for nature presented by the Corvallis Environmental Center.

The event will be one of approximately 120 Wild & Scenic On Tour festivals happening around the country this year. The main flagship festival is held annually in California’s Nevada City and Grass Valley, featuring more than 100 films, workshops, and activist talks. Afterwards, partner groups like the Corvallis Environmental Center choose a list of films from the flagship festival to create their own programs.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the 12 film program will begin at 7:00 p.m.. This year’s catalog of films will explore the vast expanse of the frigid Canadian Tundra, take a deep dive into California’s majestic but threatened underwater kelp forests, ride the world’s longest wave on Indonesia’s Kampar River, and much more. 

“It’s a really awesome way for people to gather and watch awesome films, and then meet like minded people in their community,” said Michael Huth, the On Tour Manager for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. “I don’t know anybody who doesn’t walk out of that festival inspired to do something.”

Tickets are available both online at the Corvallis Environmental Center website and at the door, and the price for college students to get in is $10. Other rates are listed at $20 for adults, $5 for youth (12th grade and younger), and $25 for purchase of on demand video.