Get to know attending filmmaker Isaac Hernandez

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The NatureTrack Film Festival is excited to welcome Director Isaac Hernandez and Producer Nancy Black to the 2020 Festival in Los Olivos, March 20-22. It’s not widely known that Santa Barbara was the birth place of the modern environmental movement. The horrific events that sparked that movement created a lasting impression on our community.

Better Together, shares the remarkable truth that…

Isaac Hernandez

Community Makes the Difference

The response to a horrendous oil blowout fifty years ago in Santa Barbara sparked the modern environmental movement, creating a culture that continues to inspire local solutions to global problems.

The 1969 Union Oil blowout mobilized the Santa Barbara community to fight for the environment, inspiring nonprofit organizations into existence, as well as Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency and the first interdisciplinary Environmental Studies program, at UCSB. The legacy of the oil spill continues to inform this community, which keeps coming together, providing local solutions to global environmental problems; such as when over 3,000 volunteers joined the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade to dig the mud from homes after the deadly 2018 debris flow.

Says Isaac, “This film started as a love letter to Santa Barbara, the community that adopted me. It soon became a personal journey in search of hope in humanity. What I learned along the way made me realize that I have no right to be hopeless, only to continue fighting for a better world, the way the people in the film have for generations.”

Isaac Hernández started making family films as a child in his hometown of Madrid, Spain. His dream of becoming a cinematographer brought him to California, where he studied film at Brooks Institute of Photography. Thirty three years, after many detours into journalism, photography, playwriting, painting and creating short Ask Videos for nonprofits, he completed his first feature, an unconventional film told from the point of view of a community. Many other projects will follow, including a memoir on growing up watching censored American films during Franco’s dictatorship.

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NTFF Reaches out to the Community for Like-Minded Partners!

Our Sponsor Partners are the BEST!

The NatureTrack Film Festival, a companion event supporting NatureTrack (a 501(c)3 non-profit) in its efforts to inspire K-12 students to embrace our natural world with respect and wonder through free outdoor field trips throughout the school year, has been honored to partner with many outstanding sponsors these past couple of years. With the support of these fine businesses, organizations, and individuals – the NatureTrack Film Festival has been able to showcase extraordinary films that “ignite a passion for nature.”

Recently, we were very pleased to partner with ForFriends Inn, a beautiful bed and breakfast located in the town of Santa Ynez. Their tagline ‘Arrive as Guests, Leave as Friends’ will extend to an exclusive NTFF ‘Multi-night, all-inclusive package’, in addition to their other wonderful packages offered throughout the year. Please join us in welcoming ForFriends Inn as NTFF’s latest Sponsor Partner.

As a Partner, you have impact far beyond that of just a logo on a brochure.

Proceeds support NatureTrack, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to taking K-12 students out on local trails and beaches during the traditional school day. Our mission at NatureTrack is to encourage students to embrace our natural world with respect and wonder, inspiring them to be stewards of our natural resources.

Download a Sponsor package, and see how you can become a Partner with NatureTrack! 

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