Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: THE LAST SEED
Best Long Form Short Film: GARDENING MARINE FORESTS
Best Sound & Music: RIVER PLANTS
Best Direction: WEIGHT OF THE MOON
Best Human Interest Film: THE ALKONOST
Best Cinematography: THE HEALER’S DREAM
Best Food Film: SEVA
Best Experimental: THE LAST DAY
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
SEVA, 12min., India, Documentary
Directed by Maya Anandan
Can selfless service be a model for food security?
https://www.instagram.com/anandanmaya
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE LAST SEED, 118min., South Africa, Documentary
Directed by Andréa Gema Heunis
The Last Seed focuses on broad themes relating to the state of food and agriculture in Africa in the 21st century. Placing the struggle over the control of seed at the centre, it explains the processes that have led to this moment in human history and what it would take to interact with the planet in a way that does not threaten the very basis of life on earth.
http://www.thelastseed.org/
https://www.instagram.com/rosaluxglobal/
https://www.facebook.com/rosaluxglobal
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE HEALER’S DREAM, 15min., Canada/India, Documentary
Directed by Roxana Mares
Ayurveda is an ancient tradition of medicine that originated in India, with certain branches established and taught in Nepal. Various regions in Nepal, in particular the Kathmandu Valley, became centers of ancient knowledge where the medical and spiritual traditions of Ayurveda are being preserved.
https://www.instagram.com/thehealersdreamfilm/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE ALKONOST, 7min., USA, Metaphysical
Directed by Christianne Hedtke
A hiker goes on a spiritual quest to find a mythical bird—the Alkonost—believed to transmit the spirit of the universe in its song.
https://www.instagram.com/bananawho/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
GARDENING MARINE FORESTS, 20min., Australia, Documentary
Directed by Stefan Andrews
What if people could be the secret to transforming ocean deserts into rich forests filled with an abundance of life? Join two marine scientists as they explore how a hands-on approach to marine restoration is working to revive marine kelp forests in South Korea.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
WEIGHT OF THE MOON, 10min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Lindsay Gilmour
10 minute dance film exploring the interconnected and reciprocal relationship between body and ocean; a conversation where we experience ourselves not as the center, but as a thread in a larger fabric of being.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE LAST DAY, 6min., Italy, Experimental
Directed by Eleonora Puglia
It’s the future. War and destruction are turning the world into hell. A young woman’s last day could be another young woman’s hope.
https://www.instagram.com/imnorareal/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
RIVER PLANTS, 15min., Columbia, Documentary
Directed by Daniel Ocampo Rincón
Rivers are one of the most diverse, dynamic, and threatened ecosystems in the world. When we study them, we get into the fascinating world of the organisms that inhabit them. A Colombian scientist created a deep affinity with water and started studying different species of river plants. We’ll join biologist Ana Maria Bedoya in an aquatic scientific adventure while she tries to unravel the processes that originated freshwater landscapes and biodiversity in the Andes, through her research on ecology and evolution of river plants based on fieldwork and genetic analyses.
https://www.facebook.com/Vencejofilms/
https://www.instagram.com/vencejofilms/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
A MAN IN A SUIT IN A FOREST, 3min., USA, Experimental
Directed by David Ray
The filmmaker, dressed in a suit, walks in a forest and muses about what a forest means to him.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION: GREAT LAKES AREAS OF CONCERN, 9min., USA, Documentary
Directed by David Ruck
Many Great Lakes communities that have carried the burden of legacy pollution for decades have an opportunity for a new lease on life when local waterways are finally cleaned up. This video series features five cities along waterways deemed Areas of Concern (AOCs) that are in various stages of the cleanup process and are experiencing revitalization.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
I DREAMED THE SKY WAS RED, 10min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher
Raven, a political psychologist, interrogates the relationship between our brains and the natural world as she embarks on a departure from exploring how others think to understanding her own ways of thinking in a rapidly changing world.
http://www.cinemosaic.net/
https://www.facebook.com/lydiadeanpilcher
https://www.twitter.com/queendean
https://www.instagram.com/lydiadeanpilcher
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 