2024-09-25T01:55:54-07:00 2023-12-31 460584551 Mark Burgess CPA PLLC PO Box 58 Hamilton VA 20159 990EZ 2023-01-01 043720399 American Conservation Film Festival Inc AMER 3048768442 PO Box 889 Shepherdstown WV 25443 Mark Burgess Treasurer 2024-09-25 true true Mark Burgess P01294197 7034312904 X 2023 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z X www.conservationfilmfest.org X X 105741 X 87496 18245 0 0 0 0 105741 53060 8586 3222 1029 26258 92155 13586 76461 90047 X 77019 90251 250 1650 77269 91901 808 1854 76461 90047 The American Conservation Film Festival promotes outstanding films and the arts to educate and inspire people to become engaged in conservation issues. The American Conservation Film Festival (ACFF) offered in-person screenings for the spring 2023 festival. At the newly-renovated Shepherdstown Opera House, ACFF offered 17 films in 29 screenings across a three-day weekend in March. Every film had open-captions in order to be accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing communities. All tickets for the festival sold out prior to opening night. Five awards were given to filmmakers. Our youth engagement effort, ACFF's Next Generation Capture Conservation Contest, awarded four film awards to student filmmakers under the age of 18 as well. During the festival, Evolve Shepherdstown served as the festival's free pop-up headquarters, a place for guests to meet representatives from conservation groups like Solar Holler, Sky Truth, Trout Unlimited, WV Rivers, Garden Stewards, and Oak Springs Garden Foundation. Film stars and filmmakers attended throughout the weekend, including the on-screen personalities from Hellbent and Little Stream, Big Magic. Shepherdstown resident Mary Anne Hitt, international climate advocate and activist read an excerpt from her essay included in All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. The public was invited to learn more about West Virginia's native brook trout from Than Hitt, Research Fish Biologist with the UGS. Evolve also featured an art installation "School of Trout created by fourth grade students at Shepherdstown Elementary School. ACFF staff worked with the Environmental Studies Department of Shenandoah University to allow students to review festival films and put on a Best of Fest event in October for students and the general public. Throughout the year ACFF also screened films at the Barns of Rose Hill in Berryville, VA and at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, VA and at Sam Michaels Park Earth Day screening in Harpers Ferry, WV. In advance of the 2024 Festival, the organization received and curated 231 film submissions from 36 countries. 73070 73070 Dennis Liu President 1.00 0 Carolyn Thomas Vice President 15.00 0 Mark Burgess Treasurer 2.00 0 Chrissy Van Hilst Secretary 1.00 0 Dave Pugh Director 1.00 0 Sarah Gulick Director 1.00 0 Elise Baach Director 15.00 0 Mary Ball Director 1.00 0 Dan Trezise Director 1.00 0 Larry Cumbo Director 1.00 0 Alex Goetz Director 1.00 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false Mark Burgess 124 Amherst St Winchester VA 22601 7034312904 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 145517 100789 121493 50615 87496 505910 24150 7190 10566 5893 18245 66044 0 0 0 169667 107979 132059 56508 105741 571954 41087 16439 22773 2572 2400 85271 0 41087 16439 22773 2572 2400 85271 486683 0 0 0 0 169667 107979 132059 56508 105741 571954 0.85090 0.80360 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Other Expenses.1001 Advertising and Promotion $3241 Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $5349 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $103 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $2394 Other Expenses.1 Festival Expenses $15146 Other Expenses.3 Licensing $25 Other Assets.1006 Pledges and Grants Receivable - Beginning $0 Pledges and Grants Receivable - Ending $1650 Other Assets.1 Other Assets - Beginning $250 Other Assets - Ending $0 Total Liabilities.1001 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Beginning $150 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Ending $494 Total Liabilities.1 Accrued Payroll Expense - Beginning $658 Accrued Payroll Expense - Ending $848 Total Liabilities.2 Deferred Revenue - Beginning $0 Deferred Revenue - Ending $512