The Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival and Series is a Progressive Media Network project. It is also a faculty/student collaborative effort through ENGL 395, a course offered at UW-Eau Claire. The course and ECPFF will be an annual project, and UW-Eau Claire students interested in participating can take it during spring semester.

The first annual EC Progressive Film Festival began in the Spring of 2006, and featured twenty five films in ten days. The festival continued in Spring 2007, featuring about thirty-seven films over a ten-day span. The film festival expanded to include a monthly film series in the Fall of 2007.

Our broad aims with the Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival are to raise awareness and encourage activist engagement within ongoing struggles for human emancipation, social justice, collective equality, ecological sustainability, and a peaceful world. As a result, we are not just showing films; we are also conducting extended, facilitated discussions afterward–and we encourage you to stay for these, and participate in them, as you can, to help forge and strengthen progressive networks, coalitions, and alliances throughout the Chippewa Valley region–and beyond. We hope you will join us as part of a broader, growing progressive movement that is developing right now in the Eau Claire area, a movement that is striving to reclaim and carry forward our state’s proud progressive heritage. Join us either way—just for the screenings or for the screenings and discussions—and participate in an unrivaled and unprecedented independent, non-profit, all-volunteer, campus- and community- based, small city, progressive film festival!