Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: DIPPERS IN THE ALTAI IV; EMERGENCE OF THE CHICKS
Best Short Film: A FIGHTING CHANCE
Best Direction: GOPHER GAMES
Best Story: GUARDIANS
Best Micro-Short: (PLASTIK)
See info for each film:
(PLASTIK), 3min., Singapore
Directed by Philip Rom
View the plastic pollution crisis through the eyes and imagination of a child in South-East Asia, a major hotspot for plastic pollution. (PLASTIK) is the first short film made in Asia for audiences in Asia that uses creative storytelling and live action drama to raise awareness and catalyse action to end plastic pollution in the region. It pulls on the heart strings and is both wrenching and warming in equal measure. Witness how a child can take individual action to influence their family to say no to single-use plastic.
https://www.instagram.com/plastik_sea/
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GUARDIANS, 22min,. Mexico
Directed by Julián Stubbs Generali
Three remarkable enviomentalists from ordinary origins give every waking moment to the same goal. They care for life, in a dangerous world.
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GOPHER GAMES, 18min., USA
Directed by Brent Fannin
As developers slowly squeeze every ounce of profit they can out of the Florida landscape, animals like the gopher tortoise and more than 365 creatures that rely on them are being driven to extinction. Developers have infiltrated every level of government in Florida including the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, an organization supposedly dedicated to protecting Florida’s wildlife and wild places. Protections for the tortoise and other species is slowly being chipped away. But there’s still hope that we can save this species, and ultimately, ourselves.
http://www.gophergamesfilm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/gophergamesfilm/
https://www.instagram.com/gophergamesfilm/
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A FIGHTING CHANCE, 12min., USA
Directed by Rob McAllister
The Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border has historically been home to a vast array of interconnected wetlands. These wetlands have long provided vital benefits for nature and people, ranging from water storage and filtration, flood protection, carbon storage, and important refuge for a diverse array of birds and other wildlife species. Over time, however, these wetlands have almost entirely been lost through damming and draining. There is hope – a critical collaboration between landowners, scientists and government agencies are fighting to save the Klamath through new partnerships. Through the eyes of the Dowitcher, we uncover the work that is being done in these critical habitats.
https://www.pointblue.org/our-work/working-landscapes/klamath-wetlands-conservation/
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DIPPERS IN THE ALTAI IV; EMERGENCE OF THE CHICKS, 54min., UK
Directed by Andrew Laurie
In the course of his work as a wildlife conservation advisor to the Mongolian government, Andrew Laurie followed up on a childhood fascination with White-throated Dippers on the Teme near Ludlow, by finding out more about their lives in the Altai Mountains. Now resident in Cambridge, Andrew has made four films on Dippers in Mongolia – covering nest-building, incubation, feeding of the chicks in the nest, and this, the most recent one (2023) on the emergence of the chicks and their early lives on the river.
https://www.youtube.com/@andrewlaurie64/featured
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Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 