Welcome! Below you will see all of our current opportunities.
The Nature Connection Pitch 2026 Application is open through December 3, 2025.
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The Nature Connection Pitch prioritizes stories representing communities often most impacted by environmental problems and challenges to outdoor access, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants, undocumented people, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, people with disabilities, and/or women.
Applicants must be living and working in the United States, though the project may take place anywhere.
Eligible projects must meet the following criteria:
- Character-driven, place-based, community-inspired stories around the theme of nature connection
- Be an original, short documentary with a final duration of 10-30 minutes
- Be in production or post-production at the time of application submission
- Be factually accurate, follow best practices in documentary ethics, and designed for a U.S. audience
- Be accountable to and authentically represent people and places featured in the film
- Be driven by (a) compelling character(s), with access to the character(s) secured
- Be presented in English or subtitled in English
- Have no prior distribution attached