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Outdoors On Screen: This Year’s Lookout Wild Film Festival

From “A Call from the Wild” - a documentary from Norway to be screened at the 2025 Lookout Wild Film Festival in Chattanooga.
Lookout Wild Film Festival
From “A Call from the Wild” - a documentary from Norway to be screened at the 2025 Lookout Wild Film Festival in Chattanooga.

(Aired Thu 1/09/25)

The cinematic panorama of the Lookout Wild Film Festival encompasses nature and the outdoors, conservation and the environment, adventure and resilience.

This year’s festival - which celebrates “the beauty of wild places and the people they inspire through film” - opens on Friday, January 17th and runs through Sunday, January 19th at The Signal in downtown Chattanooga, presented by Gearhead Outfitters (formerly Rock/Creek).

Steve Rogers is the Festival’s director.

Ray is the host and producer of Scenic Roots, Mondays - Thursdays at 3 PM on WUTC.
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