The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, presented by Main Street Pops and the Hoboken Business Alliance, will return to Hoboken live and in person on April 30, in conjunction with an outdoor Earth Day celebration. The free film festival will cap off an afternoon of community activities for all ages at 7th and Jackson Park. “As an urban coastal city, businesses in Hoboken are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A sustainable future is inextricably linked to the actions we take now.” says James Runkle, President of the Hoboken Business Alliance.

Earth Day 3 to 7 p.m.

Earth Day events will begin at 3 p.m. Guests can shop at the Green Artisan Market, featuring local sustainable and up-cycled vendors; listen to live music by the Demolition String Band; and watch live, earth-inspired chalk art by Ezenwa.

They can also participate in nature-themed art classes for all ages with Urban Arts and an ocean-themed craft project with Sea Smart; watch a live beekeeping demonstration with the Weehawken Bee Club; learn Composting 101 from the Hoboken Green Team; and take part in outdoor-adventure-themed exercise demos with Jane Do. The NJ Snake Man will host live snake, lizard and bird shows at 4, 5 and 6 p.m.

Film Festival 7 to 10 p.m.

The film screenings will begin at 7 p.m. with a film panel moderated by Mile Square Theatre founder Chris O’Connor and featuring Mayor Ravi Bhalla, Melissa Gigante of the Hoboken Police Department, and the filmmakers from Hoboken’s Branding Shorts, which produced the award-winning Mile in the Eye, about the city’s response to the COVID pandemic. The panel discussion will be followed by a screening of the short film.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival will begin at 8 p.m. Themed “Inspiring Adventure,” it’s a 90-minute collection of uplifting short films that illustrate the earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect it.

Guests who can’t stay for the films can register for free to watch them at home. Registrants will be emailed a video-on-demand link that will be active for seven days, beginning April 30.

For more information or to register for the free video on demand link, visit MainStreetPops.com.

WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Inspiring Adventure

My Last Day of Summer

A young rider finds adventure in animation

The Ghost

An intimate portrait of famed through-hiker Heather Anderson

Denizens of the Steep

Explores the intersection of backcountry recreation and the conservation of an iconic species of big horn sheep in Grand Teton National Park

DURGA: Forging a New Trail

A young woman in Nepal changes societal and familial expectations for herself and future generations

Maneuvers

An experimental film combining skiing with stop-motion animation

Can’t Beat This Place for Fun

Flagstaff’s Fretwater Boatworks defines the process of building Grand Canyon dories

An Imperfect Advocate

A jet-setting mountain climber becomes a climate-change activist

Sea Gypsies: The Plutonium Dome

An expedition to the birthplace of the nuclear age, a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean