Beautiful Swimmers Revisited Film Team from left, Tom Horton, Sandy Cannon-Brown, and David Harp

EASTON — The 6th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival is Nov. 20, hosted by Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy (MRC) and held at the Avalon Theatre in Easton.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival uses film as a powerful medium to educate, motivate, and unite communities to heal the earth, and to inspire “A Wild Life,” which is this year’s festival theme.

Noted artists Tom Horton and David Harp will be guest speakers and will provide a reading and photography show from their upcoming book, Choptank Odyssey: Celebrating a Great Chesapeake River. They will also introduce a trailer of Beautiful Swimmers Revisited, a documentary film they are producing with noted filmmaker Sandy Cannon-Brown as an initiative of the Bay Journal. This is a 40th anniversary retrospective on William Warner’s 1976 Pulitzer Prize winning book Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay.

The event begins at 6 p.m. with an open wine and beer bar, local food, and a unique silent auction. Films will begin at 7 p.m. with a program lasting approximately an hour. Tickets for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival are available through the Avalon Theatre box office at http://tickets.avalontheatre.com or 410-822-7299.

Proceeds from the Wild & Scenic Film Festival benefit MRC’s year-round programs and initiatives. MRC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring Midshore Rivers, comprised of the Choptank River and its tributaries, the Miles and Wye Rivers, and Eastern Bay. The organization serves as an advocate for the health of these waterways and the living resources they support.

For more information, visit midshoreriverkeeper.org or contact Sarah Boynton at 443-385-0511 or sarah@midshoreriverkeeper.org.