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

By Ray Bassett

Published January 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM EST

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.

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