About Us 

The non-profit Digital Filmmaking Institute (DFI) is a rag tag group of enterprising filmmakers whose mission is to train film crew and to use digital technology to serve the purposes of education, communication and creative narration.

DFI created the first digital filmmaking festival in the world in 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then “Flicks on 66”, now The Duke City Shootout, has produced more than 70 short movies using film students from all five Film Technician’s Training Programs around the State of New Mexico. These students are mentored on-set by working professional filmmakers and IATSE local union members.

DFI has also produced feature movies as well as numerous documentaries, Public Service Announcements, commercials and indeed, even one Spanish-language telenovela.

What does this have to do with our Ecopedia? DFI decided it had a unique opportunity to combine filmmaking with documenting the inventiveness and commitment that many New Mexicans have to building a more sustainable lifestyle.

Under contract to the State of New Mexico’s Film Office, DFI scoured the state for energetic New Mexicans doing something (anything) related to alternative and renewable energy and sustainable living. Thus the birth of the New Mexico Ecopedia.