Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire & Jamestown Mitigation Project, Film and Discussion

The Lyons International Film Festival and the Lyons Community Library invite you to a viewing of the nationally acclaimed film, Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire and the powerful, locally produced documentary, The Jamestown Fire Mitigation Project. Film viewing will be followed by a discussion, Q & A with local land managers, and fire mitigation and water experts.

Evan Barrientos, Jamestown Mitigation Project film’s director; conservation photographer and filmmaker

Chris Dirolf, Forest Program Manager, The Watershed Center

Jenny McCarty, Water Resources Specialist, St.Vrain Left Hand Water Conservancy District

Maria Pezza, Community Program Manager, The Watershed Center 

Stefan Reinold, Resource Management Division Manager, Boulder County Parks and Open Space

Peter Zick, Fire Chief, Lyons Fire Protection District

About The Jamestown Fire Mitigation Project

Our Jamestown neighbors come together in the face of wildfire to embark on a fire mitigation project intended to build resiliency into the surrounding forests and mitigate risk to their community.

About Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

Filmed across the West and narrated by Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actor David Oyelowo, Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire (84 min) takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. The film follows the harrowing escape from Paradise, California as the town ignited from wind-driven embers and burned within a few hours of the fire's start. It then continues to the even more recent fires of the last two years, when Oregon, California and Colorado suffered their worst wildfires in recorded history. 

Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire includes the voices of climate experts, Indigenous people and fire survivors, and asks us to reimagine our relationship with wildfire as we prepare for an increasingly hotter future. Former United States Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck says of the documentary:

”Elemental is an outstanding film that deserves the widest possible viewing. In a visually stunning manner, it distills what we’ve learned about wildland fire over the decades and provides a road-map for badly needed changes that will benefit thousands of people, particularly in fire prone communities.” 

In the wake destructive fires across the nation, ELEMENTAL is an important look at discovering how we can all reimagine our relationship with wildfire, and keep our homes and communities safe.  The solutions are now more timely and urgent than ever.