NBCI Video Accepted for International Fire Ecology Film Festival

The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative’s (NBCI) Fire Up Your Beef Production – A Ranchers’ Perspective of Prescribed Burning for Range Management is one of 23 videos/documentaries from nine countries accepted for a virtual fire ecology film festival that runs now through October 20. The winner will be selected by a public vote, which ends Oct. 20. The winner will be invited to show the film at an international fire ecology conference in Italy in 2021.

NBCI’s entry was filmed and produced by NBCI Grasslands Coordinator Jef Hodges. The video features ranchers who use prescribed fire on their ranches and share their experiences related to woody encroachment control, animal performance, forage production, utilization, and economics.
“Opportunities like this help put bobwhite and grassland issues in front of more people - not only the US, but around the world,” said NBCI Director John Morgan.  “It also characterizes the quality and currency of content the NBCI partnership provides for its 25 state agency, federal, university, and non-profit investors.”

The film festival is in conjunction with a free two-day webinar series Oct. 20-21. Each day of the webinar series will feature a panel of international fire scientists and managers providing short presentations. The webinar series is serving as a prelude to an in-person Fire Across Boundaries conference scheduled for Fall 2021 in Florence, Italy. The winner of the film fest, which will be announced during the webinar series, will be invited to present the film at the conference.

The film festival, the webinar series and the Fall 2021 conference are sponsored by the Pau Costa Foundation and the Association for Fire Ecology. To view and vote on the films, go to http://fireacrossboundaries.org/virtual-film-fest/.