“I am delighted to be a part of the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival and particularly want to thank and compliment Christopher for his dedication and vision. The WCFF is a powerhouse and there is no other event like this in a major metropolitan area in the United States.”
“We commend the WCFF for your courage to remain the one authentic platform where film makers and organizations dedicated to the conservation of the planet’s natural history and bio-diversity can still showcase their work and create awareness of conservation issues without having to apologize for having a ‘message’. Thank you to the WCFF for encouraging us to continue exploring the grand mysteries of nature, and for inspiring people to love and protect the majesty and diversity, which we all rely on for our own survival.”
“The Wildlife Film Festival launched my career into the wildlife film industry. As an amateur filmographer, this festival granted me the opportunity to meet and network with the top professionals within the industry. Working with Christopher Gervais was a genuine pleasure. He is dedicated to wildlife film and promoting conservation practices. The WCFF is your best chance to develop your wildlife film career.”
"This is the first time we have participated in the WCFF. We are really pleased with the treatment we received with Christopher who has been our faithful contact from the beginning and has kept us abreast of the latest news. Sometimes is not possible to imagine that from the other side of the Atlantic, you will receive so much attention without knowing personally the components of this prestigious Festival. We are truly amazed and sure that having attended the festival would have been even more sensational. From the Mediterranean Sea we want to congratulate the organization and look forward to meeting you next time."
“Christopher J. Gervais/WCFF has set about to carve a niche in wildlife documentaries in a highly competitive space: wildlife film making. Top notch films, venues, and presentations geared toward wildlife conservation faced the challenge of public awareness. The best programs are not necessarily the best-known programs, and the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival should be better known. The WCFF selected films that were truthful, interesting, and important. Filmmakers ranged from relative unknowns living half a world away to film legends living down the street. Biodiversity presenters offered uncommon insights about why topics mattered: expected topics, such as protecting elephants, and unexpected topics, such as snow leopard habitat as a measure for climate change impacting the water source of the most densely populated regions in the world. Christopher has the talent to pick the topics. Hopefully wildlife film watchers will catch on.”
“The Wildlife Conservation Film Festival brings to New York City and to a wider audience outstanding films highlighting the biodiversity of our planet, the dangers of poaching, shrinking habitats, and degraded environments faced by many species. The WCFF is a great way to mix documentary film and wildlife conservation, to bring people together to help save our natural heritage.”
“The 2016 WCFF–a multi-day film festival in New York dedicated to engaging, informing, and inspiring filmgoers with high production value conservation films, this year from 34 different countries! So rarely does a person encounter such a conservation film feast at one large event. The films were amazing. Most films had very hopeful messages of efforts being made to reverse the trend toward loss of biodiversity in so many parts of the world. Rarely were we besieged by horrifying scenes of animal and plant demise. Instead, we learned about species in trouble or facing extinction by coming to better know the animals and their habitats, coming to love them and feel great concern over their wellbeing, while getting a sense of what people and organizations all over the world are doing to help save species and habitat. I loved it. And hope to see more great Wildlife Conservation Film Festivals to come! This wonderful effort deserves all the support we can give it. Count me in!” This film fest effort is truly deserving of support. And I hope to see it happen on a smaller scale soon in LA!"
“The WCFF is a first-rate film festival and I am proud to say we have a wildlife event of this caliber in New York City. The WCFF brings together top names in wildlife media creation and animal conservation to inform, educate and most importantly start dialogues concerning many important issues that affect us globally. The festival events are always well-organized and coordinated, and give filmmakers an excellent platform for networking in an intimate setting with an international group of colleagues.”
“The WCFF is an important event that plays an enormous role to bring people in touch and bond with mother nature. The road to saving ourselves and nature is helped through the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival mission and all that its does to save biodiversity.”
“Going to the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival is a remarkable experience. The atmosphere is vibrant, the films are addictive, and you will find yourself talking to people with the most extraordinary backgrounds from all over the world. You just cannot get this experience by simply watching a film on the net, in a theater or television. So don’t be shy, get out there and get among the WCFF crowd.”
“We were very much impressed how quickly Christopher put together a World Premiere screening for our new film Escape to Papua New Guinea. With only three weeks lead time, Christopher arranged radio, television interviews for our trip to New York, and gave us a venue at an internationally recognized venue, New York University. He was a gentleman and delivered everything he promised and more. Christopher took time from his busy schedule to arrange a tour at the American Museum of Natural History and personally accompanied us. He provided us with the personal experiences from his own paleontologist research. With his experiences both in paleontologist and biologist sphere and passion in conservation field he is doing incredible work.”
“It was a great Pleasure to attend the WCFF for the first time this year. I was honored to have our documentary selected for the festival. The Festival was great and I got to meet lots of interesting people involved in conservation. Giving a speech about Jaguar conservation at NYU and the Award Reception where highlights of the trip. Many thanks Christopher Gervais for organizing this great event to educate the need for global biodiversity.”
“As a documentarian, writer and filmmaker who cares deeply who cares deeply about wildlife and the earth I can verify the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WCFF) is an invaluable, urgent film festival and educational tool is this fragile time. It is only with venues such as the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival that the larger world can fully realize the scope of the emergency the life force on earth is facing.”
“The Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WCFF) is the perfect forum to create awareness about the need to protect our planet’s wildlife. It is one of the few nature and wildlife film festivals where the term “conservation” is ever-so-prevalent, not only in its mission but most importantly in the films that enter the festival each year. It is absolutely vital to ensure that natural history and wildlife filmmakers include messages about conservation in their storytelling, and I am delighted that the WCFF stimulates and promotes conservation films.”
