Meet Dayna Reggero

Award-winning filmmaker Dayna Reggero of the Climate Listening Project brings her latest documentary Gulf Coast Love Story to Pensacola on Wednesday, July 19. Healthy Gulf is hosting the screening at 5:30 p.m. at the downtown Pensacola library.

• • • Dayna Reggero is an award-winning documentary film director and healing listener who lives in NW Florida. She is a graduate of the University of West Florida and began appearing with animals on WEAR-TV at only 19.

      Salon.com wrote of Dayna: “By trade, Dayna Reggero is an environmentalist. Her work ranges from filmmaking to beginning her career as a spokesperson. However, her most skilled work might come in the form of organizing conversations, or simply starting them.” In a print feature, Woman’s Day Magazine showcased Dayna as an “Earth Mother: an Artist Activist who isn’t just fighting for cleaner air and water, but protecting a community’s most precious resources – its people.”

Why it matters: Gulf Coast Love Story brings to the screen the hopes and struggles of Gulf Coast communities on the front lines of fossil fuels and climate change. The film listens to a poet, chef, musician, dancer, photographer and painters along the beaches and the bayous of the Gulf Coast.

Dig Deeper: In 2021, Dayna was honored with a Special Hero Award as part of the Dan Eldon Documentary Activist Award and in 2022 as Winner of the Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize for “her insightful, essential documentaries but also her human spirit to make the world more aware of itself through her various projects.” Learn more at: https://daynareggero.com/