Reel Earth Films

As the team behind Rising Together at Reel Earth Films, and as participants in Arizona Community Foundation’s Environmental Accelerator, this project has meant a lot to us on a personal level.

What stayed with me most is that this film isn’t about ideas. It’s about people already doing the work across Arizona to care for their communities and the land around them.

Being part of the Accelerator, I’ve seen how powerful it is when the right people come together around a shared purpose. It creates a kind of momentum that’s hard to build any other way.

This film really reinforced something for me. The solutions aren’t somewhere out in the future. They’re already happening. The opportunity now is to recognize them and invest in them.

Grateful to help bring these stories forward, and deeply grateful to the people and organizations living this work every day.

And a sincere thank you to Arizona Community Foundation for believing in this vision and helping bring it to life.

We’re excited to celebrate the upcoming premiere of Rising Together, a powerful new film debuting as part of the Sky Fire Film Festival.

The film by Reel Earth Films, highlights the incredible work of nonprofit leaders, funders, and community partners advancing conservation and sustainability across Arizona — an important focus of the Arizona Community Foundation’s environmental strategy.

We’re also proud to see this work featured in the Spring 2026 issue of Frontdoors Media.

The premiere will take place March 28 at the ASU Mix Center and will bring together many of the leaders highlighted in the film for an evening of storytelling, conversation, and connection.

If you’re interested in attending, please contact your Relationship Manager at ACF or call (602)381-1400 for tickets and more details.

On this Giving Tuesday, I wanted to share why Reel Earth Films is so important to me.

What you see in this photo is not just a collection of film projects. It is the heart of what we do. Reel Earth Films is more than a film organization. It is a conservation impact organization that exists to protect wildlife, uplift communities, and tell stories that move people to care.

Right now, we are supporting women who are leading a powerful citizen science initiative to protect our oceans through Matriarchs. We are helping raise awareness for burrowing owl conservation. We are working on a new film called Diaspora that explores Mexican gray wolves and the deeper, spiritual connection so many of us feel with them. We are telling a meaningful environmental story here in Arizona through Rising Together, focused on belonging, resilience, and the relationship between people and place.

And in addition to all of this, we are developing a major new project in Arizona that I cannot share publicly yet, but I believe it will be revolutionary for conservation storytelling in this state.

Reel Earth Films is small, but the vision is big. It is built on the belief that stories can protect wildlife, restore habitat, and bring people together to care about the natural world in a deeper way.

If you feel connected to this work and want to support it today, thank you. It means more than I can say. If you want to support this work on Giving Tuesday, it would mean a lot to me. Every bit of help goes directly into filming, conservation, and the impact programs behind these stories.

There is so much ahead, and I am grateful to have you here.