The inaugural Bear Film Festival
Bear Smart Durango is proud to present the inaugural Bear Film Festival in Durango - an evening of powerful stories, real solutions, and a shared vision for living well alongside wildlife. It's entertaining. It's informative. It's inspiring. It's community coming together. For our families. For our neighborhoods. For the bears.
Special thanks to the following for generously providing films for this inaugural event: Vital Ground Foundation, Parks Canada, People and Carnivores, Fin & Fur Films, Zooprax Productions, Wyoming PBS, Amy Brothers/The Denver Post, Blackfoot Challenge, Leanne Allison/Living With Wildlife, Tahoe Bear Busters, and Bear-ier Solutions.
The line-up includes a few films from my former employer, People and Carnivores, based in Montana, which has a whole library of short films about human-carnivore coexistence methods. You’ll see Bryce Andrews talking about connectivity between the core habitats of the Northern Rockies; Kim Johnston talking about making the town of Virginia City bear-resistant; and me with range rider Phil McGinnis talking about low-stress herding and grazing management to reduce cattle vulnerability to grizzly bear and wolf predation.
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Bear Smart to debut Durango’s first-ever Bear Film Festival
‘An evening of powerful stories, real solutions and a shared vision’
The Durango Herald
April 29, 2026 | E. Bopp
Matt introducing the films with a few words about human-bear coexistence.